you have toshiro mifune and you waste him on such a sloppily edited, written en paced film like this. that makes me angry, very angry.
1941
Paranoia meets pandemonium.
Rating
0.5 (1)
Release Date
12/14/1979Runtime
118 minsOverview
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$35,000,000Revenue
$94,900,000Homepage
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A delirious, slapstick satire where post-Pearl Harbor panic transforms California into a comedic warzone of military incompetence and civilian hysteria. Spielberg orchestrates controlled chaos, a film that runs on pure anarchic energy rather than coherent plotting.
Mood
AbsurdParanoid
Themes
War
Tone
Satirical
Pacing
Frenetic
Look
HandheldStylized genre
Structure
Ensemble
Dan Aykroyd
Sgt. Frank Tree
Ned Beatty
Ward Douglas
John Belushi
Capt. Wild Bill Kelso
Lorraine Gary
Joan Douglas
Murray Hamilton
Claude Crumn
Christopher Lee
Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
Tim Matheson
Capt. Loomis Birkhead
Toshirō Mifune
Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura
Warren Oates
Col. 'Madman' Maddox
Robert Stack
Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
Treat Williams
Cpl. Chuck 'Stretch' Sitarski
Nancy Allen
Donna Stratton
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