Mar. 2nd, 2012

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Torah! Torah! Torah! (1970) The heartrending story of three Hawaiian Hasidic Hebrew boys whose talmudic studies are interrupted by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. We follow the Jaunty Jews as they form their own kosher unit of the Marines and battle their way from island to island (but never on Shabat!) on their way to a showdown over Tokyo Bay, where … wait a minute. That was a typo up there. Sorry. Let’s start over …

-John Varley, in a review of Tora! Tora! Tora!, which has a slightly different plot...

Note: I'm slightly weirded out that [livejournal.com profile] james_nicoll watches this as a Christmas movie. But then again I always watch Gettysburg every 4th of July.

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