Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Chase_Witherspoon The Duke playing Lt. Duke Gifford (Wayne), a naval officer assigned to a dangerous mission in the Pacific where his submarine is attacked by a Japanese warship after its lured to the surface by a white flag. His pal and commander (Bond) is killed in the ensuing battle, and Wayne must defend his actions to the younger brother of his slain friend (Carey) who is in love with Wayne's ex-wife (Neal). Neal and Wayne still share a mutual affection for one another, much to Carey's chagrin (who regards Wayne as a show-pony), but Bond's death and Wayne's loyalty to his crew threatens to push Neal into Carey's arms.Melodramatic love triangle set against a WWII backdrop with a likable cast that also contains Kathryn Givney as Neal's officious commanding officer, as well as a youthful looking Martin Milner as a submarine officer and durable actor-stuntman Paul Picerni as one of Wayne's rabble-rousing crewman. Battle scenes are done on the cheap here, director Waggner opting for copious stock footage and miniatures.If you worship Wayne, or enjoy a uniformed soap-opera, then "Operation Pacific" should suffice.

bkoganbing I like submarine films, but in watching them one has to realize that there are only so many plot situations and each film seems to cover just about all of them. In fact the officers and men of the U.S.S. Thunderfish during what little spare time they had were watching another Warner Brother submarine adventure, Destination Tokyo. If you remember they exchanged the film with another submarine crew for George Washington Slept Here.Operation Pacific unfortunately suffered with an additional handicap, not foreseen by the Brothers Warner. Another film from Paramount entitled Submarine Command came out right about the same time as Operation Pacific. It starred John Wayne's very good friend and box office rival William Holden. A lot of the same situations are covered in that film, hard to distinguish between the two.That being said Operation Pacific is one of John Wayne's better war films and a good tribute to the men of the Silent Service. I remember back in the day, I had a history professor in college who was a marine in World War II. He said without reservation that for all of what he was doing in places like Tarawa, Saipan, and Iwo Jima, the tipping balance in the Pacific War was the American superiority in submarines. Due in no small part to the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet Chester W. Nimitz who trained on submarines and appreciated their worth. Cutting supplies to the home islands helped in no small measure to American combat success ultimately.John Wayne is the Executive Officer of the Thunderfish which is commanded by Ward Bond. His former wife Patricia Neal is a navy nurse at Pearl Harbor. He'd like to win her back, but she's now dating Philip Carey, a navy flier and Bond's younger brother.Besides the romantic problems the Thunderfish goes on all kinds of missions. We first see them rescuing some orphan children off a Japanese held island, later they have some real problems with defective torpedoes in which Chief Jack Pennick has a big hand in solving. And of course the usual tangles with the Japanese Navy exploding depth charges around them.In the supporting cast I have to say that my two favorite performances are from Paul Picerni who plays crewman Jonesy. Picerni's best known for being Robert Stack's number 2 guy in The Untouchables, but he's absolutely great as the comic relief in Operation Pacific. Happy-go-lucky sort of guy, if he were Latino, Gilbert Roland would have had the part.The second is Jack Pennick. You can't think of too many John Ford films his horseface presence wasn't in. He plays the Chief Petty Officer on the Thunderfish and he's simply known as the Chief. Ford usually gave him minimal dialog in his films, he speaks a bit more here. One of my favorite John Wayne moments in cinema is when Wayne speaks a heartfelt tribute to young ensign Martin Milner after Pennick has been killed. Talking about the accomplishments that people of his rank make to the U.S. Navy. If your eyes don't moisten you are made of stone. It is in fact one of my favorite John Wayne scenes of all time.Though the Duke and Patricia Neal got a lot more attention fourteen years later in In Harm's Way, I think they do just fine in Operation Pacific and I think you'll feel the same way when you see it.

wprigmore I love this movie for two reasons:1) It causes me to relive my submarine war patrols in WWII. 2) It's a typical John Wayne movie.It would probably not excite a viewer who does not care for John Wayne or war movies, but for anyone who participated in WWII in submarines, it's a must have.For the current generation, it would be worthwhile just to get the feel of how things were in those days. For many of my vintage, watching this movie over and over, as I do, is a priceless reminder of those days when a few did so much for so many.

Robert J. Maxwell If you want to hear skipper John Wayne utter such immortal words as, "Take 'er down!" and "Rig for silent running," this is the movie for you. The story per se is a familiar one to fans of the Duke. There is a conflict between Wayne's commitment to his work in submarines and his commitment to his marriage to nurse Patricia Neal, in another first-rate, non-flamboyant performance. She seems so much more mature than Cdr Wayne, but still in the end comes around to realize that he was right all along, after a senior colleague tears a strip off her and brings her to her senses. The action scenes are rather good -- after a collision with an enemy ship, the foredeck 40 mm. cannon whirls around in its tub because of the impact. Nice touch. There are depth charge attacks, surface actions, heroes sacrificing themselves to save the ship, a rivalry for nurse Neal's affection, rescued aviators, all you'd expect from a submarine movie. Wayne, one regrets to report, was not actually a submarine commander in life off the screen. His career was just beginning to take off in 1941 when the Japanese had the bad taste to interrupt it. He was thirty-four and had two children so was exempt from the draft. He made a half-hearted attempt to gain a commission in the Marine Corps but when that fell through he decided, as he put it, that he'd be of more use to the war effort making movies than picking up butts in some army camp. Another detail worth comment: the submariners themselves were saddled with the Mark XIV torpedo, which ran eleven feet deeper than its setting and whose detonators were crushed on impact. It entered the war with a 50% failure rate. The Bureau of Naval Ordinance consistently rejected the complaints of submariners as unfounded. Otherwise, you see, the bureau would have to admit that it had approved and was manufacturing a defective product. The problem was a simple one to correct (once it was finally acknowledged) but it took several years for the job to get done. And it was accomplished by commercial engineers, not naval crews. Another minor point: I've visited several submarine relics from the period and they're far more cramped than the Duke's Thunderfish. I had trouble squeezing through hatches that Wayne sails through with ease, so I can only conclude that the mock up was built to a larger scale. (I've been told by people who know that my grasp of the torpedo situation at that time is less than comprehensive. I agree.) However, these are minor irritations in an otherwise enjoyable, if shallow, war movie.