The BBC Genome allows us to trace the highs and lows of a viewing history; in this case, solving a mystery for me. Why does any mention of the film Tora! Tora! Tora! fill me with deep unenthusiasm? Let’s look back to Christmas 1976, and a prime time BBC screening the day after Boxing Day. What better way to thrill pre-VHS generations gathered together than Richard Fleischer’s dispassionate, meticulous re-eneactment of the Japanese raid on Peal Harbour, seen from both sides? What’s that? Can’t get enough of a film without a protagonist, any substantial roles for women, just an endless conveyor belt of character actors in uniforms sitting looking at maps and morse code machines?….
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