Editing Destination Tokyo (section)

== Reception ==
''Destination Tokyo'' premiered in [[Pittsburgh]] on December 15, 1943 as a benefit for crippled children.<ref name=tcmnotes /> According to Warner Bros. records, it earned $3,237,000 domestically and $1,307,000 internationally.<ref name="warners"/>

''[[The New York Times]]'' reviewer [[Bosley Crowther]] wrote: 
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It has a lot of exciting incident in it; some slick, manly performances are turned in by Cary Grant (as the commander), John Garfield, Alan Hale and Dane Clark. But an essential rule of visual drama, which is to put within a frame only so much explicit action as can be realistically accepted in a space of time, is here completely violated. The Warners have a big but too extravagant action film.<ref>{{cite news |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/01/09/archives/catching-up-some-late-afterthoughts-on-madame-curie-and-two-other.html |title=Catching Up. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 9, 1944}}</ref>
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In contrast, the review in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' magazine, was effusive in its praise: 
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'Destination Tokyo' runs two hours and 15 minutes, and that's a lot of film. But none of it is wasted. In its unspooling is crammed enough excitement for possibly a couple of pictures. Here is a film whose hero is the Stars and Stripes; the performers are merely symbols of that heroism. Here is a film of superbly pooled talents.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/1942/film/reviews/destination-tokyo-1200414139/ |title=Review: 'Destination Tokyo'. |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=December 31, 1942}}</ref>
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Critic and writer [[James Agee]] writing in ''[[The Nation (magazine)| The Nation]]'' in 1944 stated that it "combines a good deal of fairly exciting submarine warfare with at least as much human interest, which I found neither very human nor at all interesting."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Agee |first1=James |title=Agee on Film Volume 1 |date=1969 |publisher=The Universal Library}}</ref> [[Leslie Halliwell]] gave it one of four stars: "Solid, well acted war suspenser, but overlong."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Halliwell |first1=Leslie |title=Halliwell's Film Guide |date=1989 |publisher=Grafton Books |isbn=0-06-016322-4 |edition=7th}}</ref>

A later release of ''Destination Tokyo'' was [[Film colorization|colorized]].<ref>Maltin 2012, p. 348.</ref>