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Gary Cooper plays Admiral Jonathan L. Scott in this 1949 film directed by Delmer Daves, that proved to be one of the most popular films of the late 1940s. About to retire, Scott recalls how he and other Navy Men had argued the importance of aircraft carriers. During one such argument Scott insults a Japanese diplomat and is sent to a desk job in Panama. But a year later he is aboard a new carrier, the U.S.S. Saratoga and after Pearl Harbor he is the Operations Officer on the Yorktown at the Battle of Midway, and ends up commanding his own flattop. At the Battle of Okinawa, his ship is badly damaged by a kamikaze attack, but refu
Gary Cooper plays Admiral Jonathan L. Scott in this 1949 film directed by Delmer Daves, that proved to be one of the most popular films of the late 1940s. About to retire, Scott recalls how he and other Navy Men had argued the importance of aircraft carriers. During one such argument Scott insults a Japanese diplomat and is sent to a desk job in Panama. But a year later he is aboard a new carrier, the U.S.S. Saratoga and after Pearl Harbor he is the Operations Officer on the Yorktown at the Battle of Midway, and ends up commanding his own flattop. At the Battle of Okinawa, his ship is badly damaged by a kamikaze attack, but refuses to abandon his ship. Jane Wyatt plays Mary Morgan, the widow of one of Scott's flying buddies, while Walter Brennan is Pete Richard, Scott's friend and later his commander. The stars of "Task Force" are Cooper and the Technicolor combat footage of World War II included in the film, which gave it an authenticity beyond most war films. The first part of the film drags while we endure Cooper trying to be romantic with Wyatt and wait for the war to start. But the battle sequences are quite compelling. Too bad "Task Force" does not have a title that better reflects that this film is about the flattops in WWII.
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Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Release date: 1 September 1998
EAN: 9786302923025 UPC: 027616304131
Tags: Moroni Olsen (1), Robert Rockwell (1), Charles Waldron Jr. (1), Warren Douglas (1), James Holden (1), Harlan Warde (1), Richard Montgomery (1), John Gallaudet (1), Jane Wyatt (1), John Ridgely (1), Rory Mallinson (1), Stanley Ridges (1), Julie London (1), Drama (1), Richard Rober (1), Art Baker (1), Bruce Bennett (1), Jack Holt (1), Walter Brennan (1), Wayne Morris (1)
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