Reception
Released just months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the film generally was well received by the public while the U.S. Navy lent the new Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber to be displayed in conjunction with film screenings at principal cities, and set up recruiting booths by the theaters. The film was one of Warner's biggest hits of 1941, generating a profit in excess of $1 million. It was listed as the sixth most popular film of 1941.
Critically reviewed, Dive Bomber was praised for its colorful subject matter, but the plot as conceived by the screenwriting team of Frank Wead and Robert Buckner was considered "fanciful" and a "necessary evil" by Bosley Crowther of The New York Times.
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“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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