December 7th
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.
- Production
- Navy Department, U.S. War Department
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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)
Ralph Byrd
Reporter (uncredited)
Emperor Hirohito of Japan
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
'Ducky' Louie
Hawaiian Boy (uncredited)
Robert Lowery
Pvt. Joseph L. Lockhart (uncredited)
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Irving Pichel
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Lionel Royce
Mr. Hanneman (uncredited)
Karl Swenson
Machine-Gunner (uncredited)
Charles Tannen
Mike - Landing Field Officer (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- John Ford,Gregg Toland
- Writers
- Budd Schulberg
- Producers
- John Ford
- Cinematography
- Gregg Toland
- Composer
- Alfred Newman
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talisencrw
July 16, 2016
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 impossibl…
CinemaSerf
August 20, 2025
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, b…