December 7th

Name: December 7th
Genre: History, War, Action, Documentary
Released: 1943-03-01
Duration: 32 min
Rating: 5.796

★ 5,8 /10 (27 Votes)

1943 EN 32 min

Overview

"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.

Release date

01/03/1943

Votes

Popularity

0.8

Genres

History War Action Documentary

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

32 min

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Walter Huston

Uncle Sam 'U.S.'

Harry Davenport

Mr. 'C'

Dana Andrews

Ghost of US sailor killed at Pearl Harbor

Paul Hurst

World War I Ghost Soldier

George O'Brien

Single Voice of the Dead Servicemen (voice)

James Kevin McGuinness

Narrator (voice)

Philip Ahn

Shinto Priest (uncredited)

No photo

Addie Allen

Self (uncredited)

Ralph Byrd

Reporter (uncredited)

No photo

James Conaty

Wounded Officer (uncredited)

Emperor Hirohito of Japan

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

No photo

James E. Kelley

Self (uncredited)

No photo

Mrs. James E. Kelley

Self (uncredited)

No photo

Mrs. William J. Leight

Self (uncredited)

No photo

William J. Leight

Self (uncredited)

'Ducky' Louie

Hawaiian Boy (uncredited)

Robert Lowery

Pvt. Joseph L. Lockhart (uncredited)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Irving Pichel

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

No photo

Joseph B. Poindexter

Self (uncredited)

No photo

Henry L. Rosenthal

Self (uncredited)

No photo

Mrs. Henry L. Rosenthal

Self (uncredited)

Lionel Royce

Mr. Hanneman (uncredited)

No photo

William R. Schick Jr.

Self (uncredited)

No photo

Mrs. William H. Schick

Self (uncredited)

No photo

William H. Schick

Self (uncredited)

Karl Swenson

Machine-Gunner (uncredited)

No photo

Mrs. Stephen Szabo

Self (uncredited)

No photo

Stephen Szabo

Self (uncredited)

No photo

Jesus A. Tafoya

Self (uncredited)

No photo

Mrs. Jesus A. Tafoya

Self (uncredited)

Charles Tannen

Mike - Landing Field Officer (uncredited)

No photo

H.N. Wallin

Self (uncredited)

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This was solid. Recently I have taken an interest in both the propaganda films and wartime documentaries of World War II from both sides. I especially wanted to see this, since I love Ford's 'They Were Expendable' so much. Definitely worth the effort to find if you have a similar inclination for the material. I have always wondered if a truly 'objective', 'unbiased' documentary can be made. Simply the decisions a director makes in what to capture and what not to makes such a gesture impossible, doesn't it? I especially feel this is the case when it comes to nationalistic documents, such as …

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Though technically a docu-drama, this is really more of a conspiratorial retrospective on just how the Japanese managed to catch the US military on the hop, disastrously, on this fateful day. It’s narrated, of sorts, by way of a supposed conversation between a notional “Uncle Sam” (Walter Huston) and “Mr. C” (Harry Davenport). They start off by extolling the virtues of the multi-national/ethnic population that has revolutionised the economy of Hawaii, especially with sugar cane and pineapples, but gradually start to take a more menacing tone about those 157,000 who make up around a third of th…

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