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IN HARM'S WAY (1965)

Fifteen-years may not sound like a long time now, but from 1950 to 1965 many things changed, including the overall culture, and the Film Noir medium, in which Dana Andrews acted under Otto Preminger from LAURA to WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, were in the past; ironically, so were patriotic war films like IN HARM'S WAY as Dana played Admiral Broderick, a detested leader Wayne replaces during and after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
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