Curtin | movie | 2007 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00Jack? Jack, wake up.

00:05The Japs are in. They've attacked Malaya, the Philippines and the Yanks naval base at Pearl Harbour.

00:11And God knows where else.

00:20Oh, well, it's come.

00:25Thank you, Don.

00:31A DOI listening post then heard the faint message,

00:35in addition to Pearl Harbour, Singapore is being bombed.

00:39That was at 0420 hours.

00:41You're absolutely certain there was no prior declaration of war?

00:44None whatsoever.

00:47They're mad. Humiliating a nation as powerful as America with such an insult.

00:53And the King.

01:01Ready, Jack?

01:05I reckon I would be.

01:08Right, yeah?

01:11Ladies and gentlemen, the Prime Minister.

01:16Men and women of Australia,

01:20we are at war with Japan.

01:24History in the making.

01:26First time we've ever declared war off our own back.

01:29And struck like an assassin in the night.

01:33We did not want war.

01:36The Australian Government has repeatedly made it clear

01:40that if war came, it would be of Japan's making.

01:44A war we have striven sincerely and strenuously to avoid.

01:51Japan made war.

01:53We anticipate their next moves will be attacks on the outlying island bases

01:57with attempts to occupy Rabaul, Port Moresby, New Guinea.

02:02And raids on, or attempts to occupy, Darwin.

02:06With subsequent naval and air attacks on vital areas of the Australian mainland,

02:11here and here.

02:14If Japan gets her brutal way,

02:18if Japan gets her brutal way,

02:21this is our darkest hour.

02:26Let that be fully realised.