The read
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
13 audience votes
Key crew
- Henry HathawayDirector
- Jerome CadyScreenplay
- Hugo FriedhoferOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Don AmecheBingo Harper
- Dana AndrewsEdward Moulton
- William EytheHallam "Oscar" Scott
- Charles BickfordCaptain Waddell
- Cedric HardwickeAdmiral
- Kevin O'SheaCharles "Cookie" Cunningham
- Richard JaeckelBeezy Bessemer
- Harry MorganMalcolm Brainard
- Alice Faye(archive footage)
- Betty Grable(archive footage)
- Billy Gilbert(archive footage)
Stills
Themes
aviationpacific theater