Los tigres del mar

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Acabo de ver una película desconocida para mí, "Los tigres del mar" (1960) protagonizada por James Cagney.

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Es casi un semi-documental dramatizado de 5 semanas en la vida del Almirante William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., desde su destino al mando de las operaciones navales de los Estados Unidos en el Pacífico hasta la la victoria aliada en Guadalcanal.

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Halsey was portrayed by James Cagney in the bio-pic, "The Gallant Hours"; by James Whitmore in the 1970 film, "Tora! Tora! Tora!"; and by Robert Mitchum in the 1976 film, "Midway".

As a note to the changing times, when Tora! Tora! Tora! was released in 1970 James Whitmore portraying Halsey quotes Halsey's famous line about where the Japanese language will be spoken after the War (in hell). In contemporary (in the 2000s) screenings of this film on cable and in current DVD releases, the line is dubbed out of the film by cutting the scene in which this statement was made.

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No hay escenas de batalla y pocas escenas exteriores pero he disfrutado viendo esta película, cine en blanco y negro.

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Y dejo una frase suya: "There are no great men. There are only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet."

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