IN HARM'S WAY - Admiral Torrey (John Wayne) reconciled with son (Brandon De Wilde)

In Harm's Way is a 1965 American epic war film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss, Stanley Holloway, Burgess Meredith, Brandon De Wilde, Jill Haworth, Dana Andrews, and Henry Fonda.

It was the last black-and-white World War II epic and the last black-and-white John Wayne film. It received a mixed response over the years as a war story that had a simple story but not a complex one or a great one, a charge leveled against Preminger's later movies, starting with this one. The screenplay was written by Wendell Mayes based on the novel Harm's Way by James Bassett.

The film recounts the lives of several US naval officers and their wives or lovers while based in Hawaii as the US involvement in World War II begins. The title of the film comes from a quote from American Revolutionary naval hero John Paul Jones: "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Harm%27s_Way

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[GoblinGirl]

@Arbeedubya It's one of Wayne's best performances ever.

[602onkel]

@RichardElden

Rubbish!

[TheTubePortal]

@drewby7777 Well, I do understand that it's only a movie, but everything else I've seen or heard about that time period is virtually the same. Dads and sons didn't hug, boys weren't supposed to cry, etc... That kind of thing is completely foreign to me.

[drewby7777]

@TheTubePortal That distance was part of their relationship or lack of one because of a divorce when his son very young. He didn't know his Father growing up. If you watch the movie you will see that. It is in no way representative of relationships between Father's and Son's in the 50's.

[TheTubePortal]

Looks like an interesting movie and Brandon looks really cute. But it's painfully obvious that this is from the age of emotional repression - when calling your dad "sir" and a handshake was as close as you got to love. Who calls their dad "sir"? No wonder so many boys grew up unable to express love.

[nightfrog205]

This is classic,

[Nashcountryboy]

Wow...John Wayne's son here is the young boy from the movie "SHANE", Brandon De Wile as a older teen.  Great clip. Thanks for posting.

[Arbeedubya]

@1958Antimatter Thanks for clarifying that. Maybe I was thinking of True Grit or one of his later movies (though IHW could be considered one of his later movies, I suppose). In any event, it's still a very enjoyable movie. Brandon de Wilde, of course, will always be remembered by fans of classic movies as the hero-worshipping little boy Joey Starrett in Shane.

[1958Antimatter]

@Arbeedubya Wayne's cancer wasn't know about until this movie was completed.

[Arbeedubya]

@THAL1499 This ranks as one of my favorite John Wayne movies. For a long time I couldn't quite figure out why, until it was pointed out that it was one of Wayne's more sensitive performances (I loved his comment to Egan that "all battles are fought by scared men who would rather be someplace else"). It's also been pointed out that he'd already had a lung removed due to cancer and that a sense of his own mortality was possible weighing on him.