Tora! Tora! Tora! - DVD

Tora! Tora! Tora! is the Japanese signal to attack - and the movie meticulously recreates the attack on Pearl Harbor and the events leading up to it. Opening scenes contrast the American and Japanese positions. Japanese imperialists decide to stage the attack. Top U.S. brass ignore it's possibility. Intercepted Japanese messages warn of it - but never reach F.D.R.'s desk. Radar warnings are disregarded. Even the entrapment of a Japanese submarine in Pearl Harbor before the attack goes unreported. Ultimately the Day of Infamy arrives - in the most spectacular, gut-wrenching cavalcade of action-packed footage ever. You'll see moments of unsurpassed spectacle and heroism U.S. fighters trying to take off and being hit as they taxi; men blasted from the decks of torpedoed ships while trying to rescue buddies; savage aerial dogfights pitting lone American fliers against squadrons of Imperial war planes. It's the most dazzling recreation of America's darkest day - and some of her finest hours.

Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) walks into a police station to report his own murder. The police seem to have been expecting him and already know him. Frank begins to have a flashback, recalling that he had decided to take an over-due holiday from his job as an accountant. After a night on the town in San Francisco, Frank wakes up not feeling well. Doctors confirm that he has been poisoned with a toxin. With only a few days left to live, Frank sets out on a frenzied quest to find who has murdered him and why. Frank recalls being at a nightclub and his drink tasting strangely. Unnoticed by Frank, a stranger has swapped drinks with him. But why? Pamela Britton (Paula Gibson) Frank's fiancée, provides the first clue. A man named Eugene Phillips, had been urgently trying to contact Bigelow just before Phillips suddenly dies. This is a really great 'Who Done It' film. A real classic! (80 minutes - 1950 - B/W - 4 3).

MIDWAY centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome the odds.