Schlacht im Korallenmeer

Originaltitel: Battle of the Coral Sea

1959
16
1 Std. 26 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuIn 1942 submarine commander Jeff Conway secretly photographs Japanese aircraft carriers in the Coral Sea but his submarine is damaged and he's forced to surrender.In 1942 submarine commander Jeff Conway secretly photographs Japanese aircraft carriers in the Coral Sea but his submarine is damaged and he's forced to surrender.In 1942 submarine commander Jeff Conway secretly photographs Japanese aircraft carriers in the Coral Sea but his submarine is damaged and he's forced to surrender.

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866

IHRE BEWERTUNG

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Crewman
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Tom Anthony

Helmsman
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Barry Cahill

Bomber Pilot
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James T. Callahan

Australian Prisoner
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Pat Colby

Sailor
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James Forrest

Australian Prisoner
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James T. Goto

Capt. Yamazaki
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Dale Ishimoto

Japanese Guard
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Wissenswertes
Film debut of George Takei.

Patzer
The three Japanese carriers are identified as of the "Shoho Class." In fact, there were only two Shoho Class carriers and at the Battle of the Coral Sea only Shoho was present. The other two carriers were the much larger Zuikaku and Shokaku. The narrator says that all three Japanese carriers were "sunk or damaged;" however, that is not actually true. Only the Shoho was sunk and the Shokaku was damaged, which kept her out of the Battle of Midway a month later. The Zuikaku was not damaged, but her airplane and aircrew losses were such that she also missed the Battle of Midway.

Zitate
Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Conway: In my book, anybody who cooperates with my enemies isn't neutral.

Crazy Credits
Opening credits prologue: "One of the greatest and most significant battles in the history of naval warfare occurred in May 1942.

The place: Coral Sea, South Pacific.

The participants: the Japanese Fifth Carrier Division and the United States Pacific Fleet.

The issue at stake was simple and clearcut. The enemy was moving rapidly towards Australia and had to be stopped. He was stopped.

The Allied victory in the South Pacific will stand in world history as a noble monument to the memory of the gallant men and officers of the United States Navy who fought and won the battle of the Coral Sea."

Signed: Rear Admiral John J. Bergen, U S N R President Navy League of the United States

Verbindungen
Edited into WW II Theater: Battle of the Coral Sea (2022)

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Fancy Free

A moustached Cliff Robertson as a submarine commander looks incredibly dashing in this trial run for his return to the Pacific a few years later as the young JFK in charge of PT-109.

Atmospheric black & white photography by veteran Technicolor cameraman Wilfrid Cline competes with an emphatic score by Ernest Gold (who shortly afterwards collected an Oscar for his work on 'Exodus').

Post 'River Kwai' the Japanese commander played by Teru Shimada is allowed to be slightly more human than he would fifteen years earlier; while the two ill-fated European leading ladies are not quite as incongruous as you anticipate when you first see their names in the credits.