CGI? No thanks! ...

[Mark Allen M]

In Harm's Way - 1965

https://www.flickr.com/photos/142209609 ... 3217686302

[Brenden S]

No CGI there, but some pretty cool models.

[BK]

Kirk Douglas thought the battle scenes with the models were amateurish. He complained to the Director Otto Preminger and offered to re-shoot the scenes with a special effects crew he had worked with before, at his own expense.

[Clifford Bossie]

I saw In Harms Way when I was in grade school and thought the models used were some of the worst I had ever seen in a movie. All these decades later they haven't gotten any better,

[Saville]

I saw In Harms Way when I was in grade school and thought the models used were some of the worst I had ever seen in a movie. All these decades later they haven't gotten any better,

Agreed. The models were horrible and the explosions on them even more horrible.

But in some cases they did use real ships. Like the early scenes just after the Pearl Harbor attack.

[Adam Kline]

Those are still cool pictures though.

[Jerry O'Neill]

One of the issues of realism is the severe lack of details on the models they built. The ones in Tora Tora Torea were amazing compared to the pieces of crap built for "In Harm's Way"

[junkman9096]

Once, watched it once. Struck me as an overwrought soap opera with bad models (Change my mind!) Now compare the modeling of "In Harm's Way" pictured above with the modeling of "Tora Tora Tora". A different universe.
http://www.daveswarbirds.com/tora/ships.htm