Tora! Tora! Tora! Is the Japanese signal to attack
- & this movie meticulously recreates the attack on Pearl Harbor & the events leading up to it Opening scenes contrast the American & Japanese positions Japanese imperialists decide to stage the attack Top US brass ignore its possibility Intercepted Japanese messages warn of it
- but never reach FDR&s desk Radar warnings are disregarded Even the entrapment of a Japanese submarine in Pearl Harbor before the attack goes unreported Ultimately the Day of Infamy arrives
- in the most spectacular gut-wrenching cavalcade of action