1941

1979

Action / Comedy / War

47
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 38% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 49% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 36079 36.1K

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Plot summary

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.


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Top cast

James Caan as Sailor in Fight
Tim Matheson as Capt. Loomis Birkhead
John Candy as Pvt. Foley
Christopher Lee as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
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1 hr 58 min
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2.05 GB
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English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 58 min
Seeds 18

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by matwsussx 8 / 10

A childhood favourite and a movie i still love now

Delighted to get a region 1 version DVD of this film as its been unavailable in the UK on any format. I first saw this about 1989 on a late Sunday night and loved it. Seen it several times since and am delighted to see this movie but featuring added scenes not included on the theatrical cut. There are about 5-6 different plot threads which dovetail nicely as the movie progresses but essentially i think it comes down to three main stories. Los Angeles, 1941 and in the wake of Pearl Harbour Americans are coming to terms with the paranoia and fear of a possible Japanese invasion. There's Army Captain Tim Matheson desperate to get Nancy Allen up in an airplane where she will be sexually responsive to his advances. Then you have civilian Ned Beatty discovering the Army want to put an AA gun in his yard. In the mean time, Beatty's daughter is being wooed by two men, civilian dancer Bobby DiCicco and aggressive soldier Treat Williams who fight for her against the backdrop of a fabulously arranged swingdance sequence. All this whilst a Japanese submarine is submerging off the Californian coast. Throw in a dozen other wonderful characters and performances and you've got a terrific ensemble cast. The additional scenes flesh out some plots and characters not really explained in the theatrical release. Its loud, noisy and beautiful to look at. You'll either love it or hate it. I love it and was delighted to find that when screening this for my girlfriend she liked it as well. An underrated Spielberg classic.

Reviewed by ianlouisiana 8 / 10

A last hurrah of movie comedy rather than the final nail in its coffin

Whilst I suspect Stanley Kramer would like to have made "Schindler's List"( I hope against hope he would at least have retained the original title),he already made "1941",but he called it "It's a mad,mad,mad,mad world".There are those perverse moviegoers who consider it his best and most human work and I am not about to argue with them.Similarly with Mr Spielberg;he too makes "worthy" films,films about Middle America,socially - conscious films,good heavens he might even be the new Stanley Kramer - now there's a thought.But,apart from Elliot's mommy in "E.T" I have never believed in or loved any of his characters,his humans lacked the stuff of humanity. In "1941",however,every gloriously loopy, lovable,eccentric and downright demented aspect of the human psyche is given full rein.There are "hommages" to more movies than you can shake a stick at,including some of his own,the military,be it Japanese,German or U.S. is guyed affectionately.To suggest,as some have,that the movie is racist is absolute nonsense.Mr Spielberg takes the p*ss out of everybody . On its release,many watched it po - faced,disappointed that it was "only" a comedy,as if comedy was beneath a man of his stature.To make comedy that is funny is no laughing matter. In "1941" you can see echoes of Chaplin,Keaton,Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy, The Marx Brothers and the more physical humour of The Three Stooges,in fact all the great movie comics that so influenced early Cinema;Mr Spielberg cannot be faulted on his Movie History. It's failure at the Box - Office brought to an end the era of big budget retro - comedies that had been very popular in the 1970s.Now the word "comedy" is synonymous with foul - mouthed rant and we can look back on 1979 as an age of relative innocence and "1941" as the last misunderstood hurrah of the genuinely funny movie rather than the last nail in its coffin.

Reviewed by moviemik-3 7 / 10

Watch it

Any movie that features the following....:

1. The Geek from "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" torturing The Mayor from "Jaws" 2. A bunch of Japanese soldiers disguised as walking Christmas Trees 3. A hilarious USO dance sequence that boils over into an inter-service street fight 4. the film debut of Mickey Rourke and the big film debut of John Candy

and last but not least

5. Tough guy Robert Stack crying and singing along to songs from the Disney classic "Dumbo".....

CANNOT BE ALL BAD!!!!!

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