The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
I like that rather than being a historical film that looks back, it was actually filmed shortly after Pearl Harbor and while the war against the Japanese was still quite active. In this way it could be considered a propaganda or recruitment film. Had America lost the war (nearly impossible, but still) this would have been an interesting artifact.
The story is pretty good, and has a nice mixture of humor and seriousness. Of course, being a war film where people are getting killed, you can only have so much humor, but adding the dog and some clever remarks ("can you keep a secret?") really helped.
I like that rather than being a historical film that looks back, it was actually filmed shortly after Pearl Harbor and while the war against the Japanese was still quite active. In this way it could be considered a propaganda or recruitment film. Had America lost the war (nearly impossible, but still) this would have been an interesting artifact.
The story is pretty good, and has a nice mixture of humor and seriousness. Of course, being a war film where people are getting killed, you can only have so much humor, but adding the dog and some clever remarks ("can you keep a secret?") really helped.