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Summary
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+20)
Critics 80Audiences 60GoodWatch 71
Tomatometer80%
IMDb6.6
Audience score54%
Running time
1 h 37 min
Shorter than most war movies, −21 min on the typical 118
typical 11897Half of all war movies run 103–135 min.
Released
1944
January 1, 1944
82 years ago
Genres
WarActionDramaLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United States
Academy Awards1945
- Writing (Original Screenplay)1945Nominated
Rated
- PGUnited States
and 8 more11 people
- Don AmecheBingo Harper
- Dana AndrewsEdward Moulton
- William EytheHallam "Oscar" Scott
- Charles BickfordCaptain Waddell
- Cedric HardwickeAdmiral
- Kevin O'SheaCharles "Cookie" Cunningham
- Richard JaeckelBeezy Bessemer
- Harry MorganMalcolm Brainard
Alice Faye(archive footage)
Betty Grable(archive footage)
Billy Gilbert(archive footage)
Directing · 1
- Henry Hathaway Director
Writing · 1
- Jerome Cady Screenplay, Story
Production · 3
- William A. Bacher Producer
- Walter Morosco Producer
- Raymond A. Klune Production Manager
Camera · 1
- Glen MacWilliams Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- J. Watson Webb Jr. Editor
Sound · 1
- Hugo Friedhofer Original Music Composer
Art · 3
- Lyle R. Wheeler Art Direction
- Thomas Little Set Decoration
- Lewis H. Creber Art Direction
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