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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

Actors: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney

Production: Paramount Pictures

Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations.


IMDB:: 6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:: 80%

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Year:: 1954
: 102 min
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- How long is your leave?
- A week. Are the kids OK?
Fine. I found a wonderful Japanese
nurse. They're dying to see you.
Have your liberty cards ready.
Have your liberty cards ready.
There she is, Nestor.
Hey, Kimiko! Your man's back.
Not so fast. Things are different.
We got to talk.
All right, let's find some cosy nook
where we can talk.
- Daddy!
- Daddy!
Kathy! Susie!
- We saw you getting out of the car!
- You did? They've gotten so big!
- This is Setsuko, Daddy.
- How are you?
- Have they been good?
- Oh, yes.
- Come on!
- I'm coming!
Thank you.
Daddy, Daddy! I want to show you
the fish pond.
Take your sweater off and put it in
the closet. See that Susie does, too.
Daddy, Daddy! I want to show you
the funny bed I sleep in.
OK, young lady, you show me.
Why don't you leave me alone?
When I've those paddles in my hands,
I have enough to worry about.
When I get ashore,
I don't wanna worry about anything.
One thing does worry me, though.
Have they got enough beer in Japan?
- Good evening, boys.
- Good evening, Admiral.
- How's the family?
- Fine, thank you, sir.
- This is Mrs Brubaker, Nancy.
- How do you do?
Your husband took off like a jet
when he heard you were here.
- Now I understand why.
- Thank you.
- I was pleased to see him, too.
- Won't you sit down, sir?
- They didn't keep you in Tokyo long.
- They don't any more.
Not since that first press conference.
I told them we were fighting Russian
guns, radar, planes and submarines.
Our men were being killed by Russian
equipment manned by Russian experts.
Ever since then, they've bundled me
out here as fast as possible.
- I'm Brubaker.
- Gentleman to see you, sir.
Excuse me.
- Have a drink.
- Doctor won't let me.
- What is it, Nestor?
- Mike's been in a fight.
- Just Mike?
- No, sir.
I got away. Mike's in jail in Tokyo.
- I came as quick as I could.
- What happened?
His girl's marrying a bosun
from the Essex.
If you don't come,
he'll be locked up permanent.
Nestor, Tokyo is 60 miles away.
I'll phone the MPs.
Mike clobbered two MPs,
along with the gang from the Essex.
- Did you two take on the whole town?
- Yes, sir. Practically.
- I'd like to do something...
- Please, you gotta help Mike.
OK, I'll come. You wait here.
There's been some trouble in Tokyo.
- What kind of trouble?
- Mike Forney again.
A girl, another sailor, a brawl,
usual consequences. He's in jail.
You don't have to get mixed up in it.
Darling, if Forney were in China
I'd have to help him.
Harry!
If you were freezing to death
in the sea and a man rescued you,
wouldn't you help that man
if he got in trouble?
- Did Harry crash at sea?
- Yes, four days ago.

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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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