Key Crew
Director
John Ford
Producers
John Ford
Writers
Budd Schulberg
Cinematography
Gregg Toland
Music
Alfred Newman
Cast (34)
Walter Huston
Uncle Sam 'U.S.'
Harry Davenport
Mr. 'C'
John Ford
John Ford
Budd Schulberg
Gregg Toland
Alfred Newman
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)
... and 22 more
talisencrw
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...
CinemaSerf
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) an...
Navy Department
U.S. War Department
