The Bridges at Toko-Ri Page #2

Synopsis: Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The ending of this grim war drama is all tension.
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Director(s): Mark Robson
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
APPROVED
Year:
1954
102 min
232 Views


in his green hat.

You relax, 'cause you got it knocked.

I'm mighty glad they pulled you out.

We can use you around here.

- Coming from you, I appreciate that.

- I mean it.

You fly well.

You go in low, you do your job.

You'd have a great future in the Navy.

Why not make it your career?

- You know what I think of the Navy.

- Still bitter, huh?

Say what you think. I always do.

Of course, I've said it

a couple of times too often.

The organised reserves were

drawing pay but weren't called up.

I was inactive and yet I was.

I had to give up my home,

my law practice, everything.

I'm still bitter.

So bitter I could put on an act to

the surgeon and get myself grounded.

Why don't you?

That's what I kept asking myself

when I was in that ice water.

You think about your friends who

are back home leading normal lives.

I wonder if you were back home

whether you wouldn't do the same.

It's not a question of indifference

but of distance.

They act that way

because they're there.

You go on doing your job because

you're here. It's as simple as that.

The progress this world has made

has always been

because of the efforts

and sacrifices of a few.

I was one of the few at New Guinea,

Leyte, Okinawa. Why me again?

Nobody knows why he gets

the dirty job. And this is a dirty job.

- Militarily, this war is a tragedy.

- We ought to pull out.

Rubbish. If we did, they'd take Japan,

Indo-China, the Philippines.

Where would you make a stand?

The Mississippi?

Men fight the wrong war in the wrong

place. The one they're stuck with.

That's why, one day, we'll knock out

those bridges at Toko-Ri.

- Do we have to knock them out?

- Yes, we must.

I believe without question,

some morning, Communist generals

will be meeting to discuss the war.

A messenger will say, "They've

knocked out the bridges at Toko-Ri!"

That mission will convince them that

we'll never weaken in our purpose.

That's the day they'll quit.

I didn't call you here

to discuss strategy

but to chew you out

'cause of your wife.

My wife?

- You knew she was in Japan.

- She made it!

- I hope she's got the kids.

- Hope you don't get a court martial.

- I had nothing to do with it.

- How did she get here?

Her father was a senator

for Massachusetts.

- I don't care if she's broken rules.

- War's no place for women.

I'll tell COMNAVFE you had nothing

to do with bringing her out.

- I'd like to meet your wife.

- It'd be a pleasure.

See if the surgeon can spare you

a nightcap, give you a good sleep.

In three days, you'll be in Japan.

No more take-offs for a while.

No, sir.

It's gonna be a long three days.

Group one, idle.

Group two, idle.

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Valentine Davies

Valentine Loewi Davies (August 25, 1905 – July 23, 1961) was an American film and television writer, producer, and director. His film credits included Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Chicken Every Sunday (1949), It Happens Every Spring (1949), The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), and The Benny Goodman Story (1955). He was nominated for the 1954 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Glenn Miller Story. Davies was born in New York City, served in the Coast Guard, and graduated from the University of Michigan where he developed his writing skill with a column in the Michigan Daily and honed his skills further as a graduate student at Yale Drama School. He walked away from his family's successful real estate business in New York and moved to Hollywood to become a screenwriter. He wrote a number of Broadway plays and was president of the Screen Writers Guild and general chairman of the Academy Awards program. He wrote the story for the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, which was given screen treatment by the director, George Seaton. Davies also did a novelization of the story, which was published as a novella by Harcourt Brace & Company in conjunction with the film release. Miracle on 34th Street earned him an Academy Award for Best Story. From 1949-50, he served as President of the Screen Writers Guild. He died in 1961 at his home in Malibu, California when he was fifty-five years old. His secretary at the time of his death, Marian Saphro, recalled many years later that her boss died in the midst of a heavy laugh. The Valentine Davies Award was established in 1962, the year following his death, by the Writers Guild of America, West, in his honor. It has been awarded annually, excepting the years 2006, 2010, and 2015. more…

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