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Release Date: 1979

Cast: James Caan, Christopher Lee, Mickey Rourke, Tim Matheson, Murray Hamilton, Lucille Benson, Treat Williams, Robert Stack, Eddie Deezen, Toshiro Mifune, Warren Oates, Dan Aykroyd ...MORE

Cast: James Caan, Christopher Lee, Mickey Rourke, Tim Matheson, Murray Hamilton, Lucille Benson, Treat Williams, Robert Stack, Eddie Deezen, Toshiro Mifune, Warren Oates, Dan Aykroyd, Slim Pickens, Jordan Brian, Lorraine Gary, John Belushi, Dianne Kay, Ned Beatty, Bobby Di Cicco, John Candy, Nancy Allen ...LESS

Categories: Movies, War Film, Airplanes And Airports, Period Piece, Action Comedy, Action, Action/Adventure, Satire, Screwball Comedy, Parody, Comedy

1941 is a 1979 period comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and featuring an ensemble cast including John Belushi, Ned Beatty, John Candy, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee and Dan Aykroyd. The film is about a panic in the Los Angeles area after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Although not as financially or critically successful as many of Spielberg's other films, it received belated widespread popularity after an expanded version aired on ABC, and its subsequent successful home video reissues, raising it to cult status. Co-writer Gale stated the... MORE

1941 is a 1979 period comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and featuring an ensemble cast including John Belushi, Ned Beatty, John Candy, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee and Dan Aykroyd. The film is about a panic in the Los Angeles area after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Although not as financially or critically successful as many of Spielberg's other films, it received belated widespread popularity after an expanded version aired on ABC, and its subsequent successful home video reissues, raising it to cult status. Co-writer Gale stated the plot is loosely based on what has come to be known as the Great Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942 as well as the shelling of the Ellwood oil refinery, near Santa Barbara by a Japanese submarine. Many other events in the film were based on real incidents, including the Zoot Suit Riots and an incident in which the U.S. Army placed an anti-aircraft gun in a homeowner's yard on the Maine coast. On Saturday, December 13, 1941 at 7:01 a.m., somewhere along the Southern California coast, a woman goes swimming alone and naked only to find a Japanese submarine surfacing beneath her. The submarine crew realizes LESS