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1941
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Discover this cult war film with this Poster of the 1941 Film by Steven Spielberg. Immerse yourself in the fast-paced action of this crazy comedy!
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Description of this 1941 Film Poster
1941 is a 1979 American comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. The film features an ensemble cast including Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Stack, Nancy Allen, and Mickey Rourke in his film debut. The story depicts a panic in the Los Angeles area following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
Co-writer Gale said the plot was loosely based on what became known as the Great Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942, as well as the bombing of the Ellwood oil refinery near Santa Barbara by a sub-terror. Japanese sailor. Many other events in the film are based on true events, including the Zoot Suit riots and an incident in which the U.S. military placed an anti-aircraft gun in a homeowner's yard on the coast of Maine.
Although 1941 was not as financially and critically successful as many of Spielberg's other films, it enjoyed late popularity after an expanded version aired on ABC, with subsequent television broadcasts and re-releases in amateur video, which gave it cult film status.
On Saturday, December 13, 1941, at 7:01 a.m. (six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor), an Imperial Japanese Navy submarine, commanded by Akiro Mitamura and carrying Kriegsmarine officer Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt, surfaced offshore Californian coasts. Wanting to destroy something "honorable" in Los Angeles, Mitamura decides to target Hollywood. Later that morning, the crew of an M3 Lee tank from the 10th Armored Division, consisting of Sergeant Frank Tree, Corporal Chuck Sitarski, and Privates Foley, Reese, and Henshaw, eat breakfast at a cafe where workers dishwasher Wally Stephens and his friend Dennis DeSoto. Wally plans to enter a dance competition at a club that evening with his girlfriend, Betty Douglas. Sitarski doesn't like Wally at all and trips him, causing a fight.
In Death Valley, Captain Wild Bill Kelso of the United States Air Force accidentally lands his Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter jet on a roadside store and gas station. explode. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Major General Joseph W. Stilwell tries to calm the population, who believe that Japan will attack California. At a press conference at Daugherty Field in Long Beach, Captain Loomis Birkhead, Stilwell's assistant, meets his old flame Donna Stratton, General Stilwell's new secretary. Knowing that Donna is sexually aroused by airplanes, Birkhead lures her into the cockpit of a B-17 bomber to seduce her. When he falls, Birkhead accidentally releases a bomb, which rolls against the conference podium and explodes, although Stilwell and the crowd escape unscathed.
In Santa Monica, at the house of her father Ward Douglas and his wife Joan, Betty and her friend Maxine Dexheimer, who have just become USO hostesses, tell Wally that they are only allowed to dance with military personnel, because they are now the only male customers allowed into the club. Wally is hiding in the garage when Ward, who disapproves of him, appears. Sergeant Tree and his team arrive and inform Ward and Joan that the army wants to set up an anti-aircraft battery in their backyard. Sitarski begins flirting with Betty, and Wally falls from the attic where he was hiding. Wally and Sitarski recognize each other at the cafe, and the tankers throw Wally into a passing garbage truck.
Meanwhile, the Japanese submarine got lost trying to find Los Angeles after its compass malfunctioned. A landing party goes to shore and captures lumberjack Hollis "Holly" Wood. Aboard the submarine, Hollis is searched and the crew is delighted to find a small toy compass which Hollis swallows. After the crew attempts to make him excrete the compass by forcing him to drink prune juice, Hollis escapes from the submarine.
Ward's neighbor, Angelo Scioli of the Ground Observer Corps, places Claude and Herb in the Ferris wheel at the Ocean Front amusement park to spot enemy planes. Determined to get Donna on a plane, Birkhead drives her to the 501st Bomb Distribution Unit in Barstow, where the mentally unstable Colonel "Mad Man" Maddox allows them to borrow a plane. Donna, excited about finally being on a plane, begins to ravish Birkhead during the flight.
At the USO club, Sitarski leads Betty into dancing. Wally sneaks out and finds Betty. They win the dance competition and Sitarski hits Wally, which starts a fight between soldiers, sailors and zoot suits that spills into the street and becomes a riot. Sergeant Tree and his team break up the melee, just before LA goes on alert when Birkhead and Donna fly over the city and the anti-aircraft batteries open fire on them. Kelso chases after them and shoots them down, causing them to land in the La Brea tar pits. Claude and Herb shoot down the passing P-40 after mistaking it for a Japanese Zero. Kelso crashes into town, where he informs military authorities of the Japanese submarine he spotted on the pier. Wally takes command of the tank after Tree is accidentally incapacitated, and saves Betty as Sitarski accosts her. After the alert given by Kelso, Wally, Betty, Dennis and the tankers head towards the pier, followed by Kerso on a motorcycle.
At the Douglas house, Ward sees the submarine surface and begins firing the anti-aircraft gun, destroying his house. The submarine returns fire and hits the Ferris wheel, which falls into the ocean. When von Kleinschmidt attempted to force the submarine to retreat, Mitamura threw him overboard. The tank arrives and sinks when the submarine torpedoes the pier. Kelso jumps off the pier and swims to the submarine, where he is captured by the Japanese.
The next morning, Stilwell and the soldiers arrive at the remains of the Douglas house, where the other protagonists have gathered. Ward swears that their Christmas will not be ruined by the enemy; to symbolize his point, he nails a Christmas wreath to his front door, causing his unstable house to collapse into the hillside. Stilwell, watching the disheveled arguing crowd, said to Sergeant Tree, "It's going to be a long war."
