December 7th

5.8(26)194332m

HistoryWarActionDocumentary

"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.

Director

John Ford

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Cast

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)

Addie Allen

Self (uncredited)

Ralph Byrd

Reporter (uncredited)

James Conaty

Wounded Officer (uncredited)

Emperor Hirohito of Japan

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Reviews

2 reviews

talisencrw

9y ago

8.0

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. Sim...

Geronimo1967

6mo ago

6.0

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 po...