Editing Destination Tokyo (section)

{{short description|1943 film directed by Delmer Daves}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Destination Tokyo
| image          = Destination Tokyo poster.jpg
| caption        = theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Delmer Daves]]
| producer       = [[Jerry Wald]]<br/>[[Jack L. Warner]]
| screenplay     = [[Delmer Daves]]<br/>[[Albert Maltz]]{{efn|Maltz was later brought before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee|House Committee on Un-American Activities]] on the grounds that some of the dialogue in ''Destination Tokyo'' reflected Communist sympathies.<ref>Eliot 2005, p. 226.</ref>}}
| story          = [[Steve Fisher (writer)|Steve Fisher]]
| starring       = [[Cary Grant]]<br/>[[John Garfield]]
| music          = [[Franz Waxman]]<br/>[[William Lava]]
| cinematography = [[Bert Glennon]]
| editing        = [[Christian Nyby]]<br/>Vladimir Barjansky
| studio         = [[Warner Bros.]]
| distributor    = Warner Bros.
| released       = {{Film date|1943|12|15|[[Pittsburgh]], premiere}}
| runtime        = 131 or 135 minutes<ref name=afi>{{AFI film|392}}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $1,516,000<ref name="warners">Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1–31 p. 24 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551</ref>
| gross          = $4,544,000<ref name="warners"/>
}}

'''''Destination Tokyo''''' is a 1943 [[black and white film|black and white]] American [[submarine films|submarine]] [[war film]].<ref>Halliwell 1989, p. 267.</ref> The film was directed by [[Delmer Daves]] in his directorial debut,<ref name=tcmart>McGee, Scott. [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/72905/destination-tokyo#articles-reviews "Articles: 'Destination Tokyo' (1944)."] ''[[TCM.com]]'', 2019. Retrieved: August 15, 2019.</ref> and the screenplay was written by Daves and [[Albert Maltz]], based on an original story by former submariner [[Steve Fisher (writer)|Steve Fisher]].<ref>Evans 2000, p. 56.</ref> The film stars [[Cary Grant]] and [[John Garfield]] and features [[Dane Clark]], [[Robert Hutton (actor)|Robert Hutton]], and [[Warner Anderson]], along with [[John Ridgely]], [[Alan Hale Sr.]] and [[William Prince (actor)|William Prince]].

''Destination Tokyo'' has been called "the granddaddy of submarine films like ''[[Run Silent, Run Deep (film)|Run Silent, Run Deep]]'' (1958), ''[[Das Boot]]'' (1981), and ''[[U-571 (film)|U-571]]'' (2000)".<ref name=tcmart />

Produced during the height of World War II, the film was used as propaganda to boost morale back home and to entice young men to join the Submarine Service of the [[U.S. Navy]].