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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: There's the whole business about a submarine being in Tokyo Bay before the Doolittle Raid, and the sinking of a Japanese aircraft carrier when the first Japanese carrier to be sunk in the war didn't happen until the Battle of the Coral Sea in May. Then there's the performance of American torpedoes. In the movie Cassidy attacks twice and sinks two ships, a carrier and a destroyer. In reality American torpedoes at this stage of the war were nearly worthless, usually either missing a target low or detonating prematurely or failing to explode when they did manage to hit a hull.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: There's the whole business about a submarine being in Tokyo Bay before the Doolittle Raid, and the sinking of a Japanese aircraft carrier when the first Japanese carrier to be sunk in the war didn't happen until the Battle of the Coral Sea in May.
** Then there's the performance of American torpedoes. In the movie Cassidy attacks twice and sinks two ships, a carrier and a destroyer. In reality American torpedoes at this stage of the war were nearly worthless, usually either missing a target low or detonating prematurely or failing to explode when they did manage to hit ahull.hull.
** The submarine leaves port 17 days after the Pearl Harbor attack. Crewmembers, however, refer to multiple previous long-duration "war patrols."
** Then there's the performance of American torpedoes. In the movie Cassidy attacks twice and sinks two ships, a carrier and a destroyer. In reality American torpedoes at this stage of the war were nearly worthless, usually either missing a target low or detonating prematurely or failing to explode when they did manage to hit a
** The submarine leaves port 17 days after the Pearl Harbor attack. Crewmembers, however, refer to multiple previous long-duration "war patrols."
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''Destination Tokyo'' is a 1943 wartime propaganda film directed by Creator/DelmerDaves--it was his directorial debut.
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''Destination Tokyo'' is a 1943 American wartime propaganda film directed by Creator/DelmerDaves--it was his directorial debut.
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It involves the fictional mission of of a fictional submarine, the USS ''Copperfin'', in the Pacific theater of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The ''Copperfin'', led by Captain Cassidy (Creator/CaryGrant), leaves San Francisco on Christmas Eve 1941 on a secret mission. After 24 hours at sea Cassidy unseals his orders and gets a surprise: his ship is to go all the way to Tokyo Bay. The extremely hazardous mission requires that Cassidy somehow enter Tokyo harbor without being observed, and then land a shore party which will perform reconnaissance for an upcoming carrier-based bombing raid on Japan. (Namely, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]], dramatized in ''Film/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo''.
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It involves the fictional mission of of a fictional submarine, the USS ''Copperfin'', in the Pacific theater of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The ''Copperfin'', led by Captain Cassidy (Creator/CaryGrant), leaves San Francisco on Christmas Eve 1941 on a secret mission. After 24 hours at sea Cassidy unseals his orders and gets a surprise: his ship is to go all the way to Tokyo Bay. The extremely hazardous mission requires that Cassidy somehow enter Tokyo harbor without being observed, and then land a shore party which will perform reconnaissance for an upcoming carrier-based bombing raid on Japan. (Namely, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]], dramatized in ''Film/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo''.
''Film/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo''.)
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* BehindEnemyLines: The ''Copperfin'' executes a hazardous mission in which they sneak in to Tokyo Bay, land a shore party that makes observations about the weather and fortifications, then sneak back out.
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* CunningLinguist: Lt. Raymond is brought along on a surveillance mission because (although he is not Asian) he grew up in Japan. He knows the area around Tokyo Bay and is also fluent in Japanese. They will transmit their coded information in Japanese so it will take longer for the Japanese to realize it's a foreigner sending it.
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* MeatgrinderSurgery: Pills the pharmacist's mate performs an emergency appendectomy on one of his crewmates.
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* NewsTravelsFast: The captain asks for a particular chart. The man who fetches it shows the title to half-a-dozen men before passing it to the captain and they immediately scatter to tell everyone else. Before the captain can officially announce their destination, a new edition of the unit paper is out and Japanese music is playing over the intercom.
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* VisualTitleDrop: A crewman typing up the ship's newsletter types up "DESTINATION: TOKYO".
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''Destination Tokyo'' is a 1943 wartime propaganda film directed by Creator/DelmerDaves--it was his directorial debut.
It involves the fictional mission of of a fictional submarine, the USS ''Copperfin'', in the Pacific theater of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The ''Copperfin'', led by Captain Cassidy (Creator/CaryGrant), leaves San Francisco on Christmas Eve 1941 on a secret mission. After 24 hours at sea Cassidy unseals his orders and gets a surprise: his ship is to go all the way to Tokyo Bay. The extremely hazardous mission requires that Cassidy somehow enter Tokyo harbor without being observed, and then land a shore party which will perform reconnaissance for an upcoming carrier-based bombing raid on Japan. (Namely, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]], dramatized in ''Film/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo''.
Cassidy swings by the Aleutians to pick up one Lt. Raymond, who speaks Japanese and is to lead the shore mission. Their hazardous mission is made even more eventful when a young seaman falls ill and requires an emergency appendectomy. The ''Copperfin'' does eventually manage to sneak into the bay, but getting out will be no easier than getting in.
Creator/JohnGarfield plays "Wolf", a sailor who tells tall tales about all the women he's supposedly bedded.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: There's the whole business about a submarine being in Tokyo Bay before the Doolittle Raid, and the sinking of a Japanese aircraft carrier when the first Japanese carrier to be sunk in the war didn't happen until the Battle of the Coral Sea in May. Then there's the performance of American torpedoes. In the movie Cassidy attacks twice and sinks two ships, a carrier and a destroyer. In reality American torpedoes at this stage of the war were nearly worthless, usually either missing a target low or detonating prematurely or failing to explode when they did manage to hit a hull.
* BandOfBrothers: The bond between the sailors is shown by how they give each other Christmas presents after leaving port on Chrismtas Eve. Later Cassidy remarks on how the officers and men on a submarine are closer than they are on surface ships.
* BehindEnemyLines: The ''Copperfin'' executes a hazardous mission in which they sneak in to Tokyo Bay, land a shore party that makes observations about the weather and fortifications, then sneak back out.
* BlatantLies: Wolf tells a story about how he picked up some girl who "comes up right to my chin", when the flashback playing along with it shows the woman to be half a head taller than he is. Of course, later dialogue indicates that all of Wolf's stories might be Blatant Lies.
* BookEnds: The sub leaves San Francisco at the beginning of the movie and returns at the end.
* BurialAtSea: Mike the torpedo mate is buried at sea after he's stabbed in the back by a Japanese pilot.
* {{Flashback}}: Wolf's tale of picking up a girl at a record shop. Brief shots of Captain Cassidy's home life (he's married and a father of two).
* InTheBack: The ''Copperfin'' shoots down a Japanese torpedo plane. They attempt to rescue the pilot who bails out, only for the pilot to fatally stab Mike the torpedo mate In The Back as Mike is hauling him onboard.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: As they sail away from the encounter with the torpedo plane, Cassidy tells his second-in-command to dive the ship if another torpedo plane shows up. This despite the fact that Cassidy will be in the bow along with Adams trying defuse a bomb, and will drown if the ship dives.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: All the characters have nicknames, and some of them never get named properly, like Wolf the CasanovaWannabe, or "Tin Can" who thirsts for revenge against the Axis because his uncle was executed by the Nazis, or "Pills" the medic.
* StrawAtheist: Pills talks about how he doesn't believe in God or prayers or anything and is even asked if he's an atheist. This is all to set up the scene at the end where he admits that prayer does work, after Adams survives his appendectomy.
* SubStory: A submarine goes on a difficult mission to Tokyo Bay.
* TimePassesMontage: A line on a map traces the path of the ''Copperfin'' from the Aleutians to the coast of Japan, as various sub-related activities take place on screen.
* TokyoRose: Heard from as the shore party is rigging up their radio in a cave by the beach. Crosses with CoincidentalBroadcast when Rose talks about how no American ship dares come within 500 miles of the Japanese home islands and how the U.S. submarine fleet has been destroyed.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: All of this movie is fictional except for the scene where the ship's medic has to perform an emergency appendectomy on a crewman at sea. That actually happened aboard a real US submarine, the ''Seadragon''.
* VoiceoverLetter: A variation. After Mike is killed by the Japanese pilot, his buddies go through his belongings. They find a phonograph record which turns out to be a love letter from his wife.
It involves the fictional mission of of a fictional submarine, the USS ''Copperfin'', in the Pacific theater of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The ''Copperfin'', led by Captain Cassidy (Creator/CaryGrant), leaves San Francisco on Christmas Eve 1941 on a secret mission. After 24 hours at sea Cassidy unseals his orders and gets a surprise: his ship is to go all the way to Tokyo Bay. The extremely hazardous mission requires that Cassidy somehow enter Tokyo harbor without being observed, and then land a shore party which will perform reconnaissance for an upcoming carrier-based bombing raid on Japan. (Namely, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]], dramatized in ''Film/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo''.
Cassidy swings by the Aleutians to pick up one Lt. Raymond, who speaks Japanese and is to lead the shore mission. Their hazardous mission is made even more eventful when a young seaman falls ill and requires an emergency appendectomy. The ''Copperfin'' does eventually manage to sneak into the bay, but getting out will be no easier than getting in.
Creator/JohnGarfield plays "Wolf", a sailor who tells tall tales about all the women he's supposedly bedded.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: There's the whole business about a submarine being in Tokyo Bay before the Doolittle Raid, and the sinking of a Japanese aircraft carrier when the first Japanese carrier to be sunk in the war didn't happen until the Battle of the Coral Sea in May. Then there's the performance of American torpedoes. In the movie Cassidy attacks twice and sinks two ships, a carrier and a destroyer. In reality American torpedoes at this stage of the war were nearly worthless, usually either missing a target low or detonating prematurely or failing to explode when they did manage to hit a hull.
* BandOfBrothers: The bond between the sailors is shown by how they give each other Christmas presents after leaving port on Chrismtas Eve. Later Cassidy remarks on how the officers and men on a submarine are closer than they are on surface ships.
* BehindEnemyLines: The ''Copperfin'' executes a hazardous mission in which they sneak in to Tokyo Bay, land a shore party that makes observations about the weather and fortifications, then sneak back out.
* BlatantLies: Wolf tells a story about how he picked up some girl who "comes up right to my chin", when the flashback playing along with it shows the woman to be half a head taller than he is. Of course, later dialogue indicates that all of Wolf's stories might be Blatant Lies.
* BookEnds: The sub leaves San Francisco at the beginning of the movie and returns at the end.
* BurialAtSea: Mike the torpedo mate is buried at sea after he's stabbed in the back by a Japanese pilot.
* {{Flashback}}: Wolf's tale of picking up a girl at a record shop. Brief shots of Captain Cassidy's home life (he's married and a father of two).
* InTheBack: The ''Copperfin'' shoots down a Japanese torpedo plane. They attempt to rescue the pilot who bails out, only for the pilot to fatally stab Mike the torpedo mate In The Back as Mike is hauling him onboard.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: As they sail away from the encounter with the torpedo plane, Cassidy tells his second-in-command to dive the ship if another torpedo plane shows up. This despite the fact that Cassidy will be in the bow along with Adams trying defuse a bomb, and will drown if the ship dives.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: All the characters have nicknames, and some of them never get named properly, like Wolf the CasanovaWannabe, or "Tin Can" who thirsts for revenge against the Axis because his uncle was executed by the Nazis, or "Pills" the medic.
* StrawAtheist: Pills talks about how he doesn't believe in God or prayers or anything and is even asked if he's an atheist. This is all to set up the scene at the end where he admits that prayer does work, after Adams survives his appendectomy.
* SubStory: A submarine goes on a difficult mission to Tokyo Bay.
* TimePassesMontage: A line on a map traces the path of the ''Copperfin'' from the Aleutians to the coast of Japan, as various sub-related activities take place on screen.
* TokyoRose: Heard from as the shore party is rigging up their radio in a cave by the beach. Crosses with CoincidentalBroadcast when Rose talks about how no American ship dares come within 500 miles of the Japanese home islands and how the U.S. submarine fleet has been destroyed.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: All of this movie is fictional except for the scene where the ship's medic has to perform an emergency appendectomy on a crewman at sea. That actually happened aboard a real US submarine, the ''Seadragon''.
* VoiceoverLetter: A variation. After Mike is killed by the Japanese pilot, his buddies go through his belongings. They find a phonograph record which turns out to be a love letter from his wife.
