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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 3 Mins Read

    Pearl

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    The film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) cost $25 million to make. Not surprisingly, some of the footage ended up on the cutting room floor. Someone gathered up that footage and included it in this ABC miniseries, written by Stirling Silliphant, who also produced the series.

    Pearl is set in Hawaii in the three days before the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941.

    Two main subplots revolve around the attack: the loveless marriage between bigoted and ineffectual Colonel Jason Forrest (Dennis Weaver) and his wife, Midge (Angie Dickinson); and the relationship between Navy Junior Grade Lieutenant Douglas North (Gregg Henry) and his family – Navy Commander father Michael (Richard Anderson), mother Ellie (Marion Ross) and sister Patricia (Mary Crosby) – when Doug falls in love with Japanese girl Holly Nagata (Tiana Alexandra, who was married to Stirling Silliphant in real life).

    Midge Forrest tries to take up with her husband’s executive officer Captain Calvin Lanford (Robert Wagner), a wealthy Southern gentleman, but he falls in love with suicidal obstetrician Dr Carol Lang (Lesley Ann Warren), whose husband was killed in the Battle of Britain.

    Sally Colton (Katherine Helmond) is a friend of Midge and runs the local bordello where a lot of the film’s action takes place.

    Meanwhile, Midge becomes set on seducing Private Finger (Christian Vance). When an MP sergeant (Brian Dennehy) tries to blackmail her about it, she shoots holes in the bottom of his jeep.

    Finger’s alleged homosexual partner Billy Zylowski (Adam Arkin) is a sensitive boy who paints the girls in the brothel and his friends in the barracks.

    Midge Forrest
    Angie Dickinson
    Col. Jason Forrest
    Dennis Weaver
    Capt. Cal Lankford
    Robert Wagner
    Dr Carol Lang
    Lesley Ann Warren
    Holly Nagata
    Tiana Alexandra
    Lt. (j.g.) Doug North
    Gregg Henry
    Sally Colton
    Katherine Helmond
    Pvt. Billy Zylowski
    Adam Arkin
    Sgt. Otto Chain
    Brian Dennehy
    1st Sgt. Walder
    Max Gail
    Shirley
    Char Fontane
    Lily
    Audra Lindley
    Cmdr. Michael North
    Richard Anderson
    Ellie North
    Marion Ross
    Harrison
    Allan Miller
    Pvt. John Finger
    Christian Vance
    Patricia North
    Mary Crosby
    Lt. Christopher
    Charles Lucia
    GMSN Cerruti
    David Elliott
    Looper
    John Fitzgibbons
    Chief Looper
    Les Lannom
    Cpl. Danny Nagata
    Mike Miyashiro
    Mr Nagata
    Seth Sakai
    Mrs Mioko Nagata
    Marik Yamoto
    Mrs Lihuha
    Elizabeth Smith
    Cpl. Perkins
    Fred Stromsoe
    Donny
    John A. Lewis
    Cpl. Stroke
    Don Rockwell
    Dr Begeham
    Bill Edwards
    Pvt. Dobbs
    Tim Jefferies
    Narrator
    Joseph Campanella

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