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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 2311212" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>I just watched an outstanding war movie, one without a single battle scene, that begins and ends with a retirement ceremony: <em>The Gallant Hours</em>, about Fleet Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey at Guadalcanal. It starred James Cagney as Halsey, and was directed by Robert Montgomery, himself a veteran of PT boats in WWII. Montgomery was also one of the movie's two narrators; he did narration when the Americans were on screen (even telling what was about to happen to some of them), and another narrator covered the Japanese side. (The Japanese scenes were filmed in Japanese with no subtitles.)</p><p></p><p>I don't know about the detailed interpersonal interactions between the figures, but the events appear to dovetail nicely with Hornfischer's <em>Neptune's Inferno</em>, although timeframes are obviously compressed and some details are omitted. It is obvious that Montgomery cared very much about the subject of the film.</p><p></p><p>An interesting side note is that this move, although it looks like any other commercial disc, is, when ordered from Amazon, burned on demand onto a DVD-R.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 2311212, member: 26737"] I just watched an outstanding war movie, one without a single battle scene, that begins and ends with a retirement ceremony: [I]The Gallant Hours[/I], about Fleet Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey at Guadalcanal. It starred James Cagney as Halsey, and was directed by Robert Montgomery, himself a veteran of PT boats in WWII. Montgomery was also one of the movie's two narrators; he did narration when the Americans were on screen (even telling what was about to happen to some of them), and another narrator covered the Japanese side. (The Japanese scenes were filmed in Japanese with no subtitles.) I don't know about the detailed interpersonal interactions between the figures, but the events appear to dovetail nicely with Hornfischer's [I]Neptune's Inferno[/I], although timeframes are obviously compressed and some details are omitted. It is obvious that Montgomery cared very much about the subject of the film. An interesting side note is that this move, although it looks like any other commercial disc, is, when ordered from Amazon, burned on demand onto a DVD-R. [/QUOTE]
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