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December 7th - The Fleet that Came to Stay

starring: Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews, Paul Hurst, George O'Brien
directed by: John Ford, Gregg Toland

: December 7th - The Fleet that Came to Stay
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0018713811868
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Good Times Video
Manufacturer: Good Times Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Good Times Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 15, 2001
Running Time: 60 minutes
Sales Rank: 55150
Studio: Good Times Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1943



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Amazon.com:
In 1943 John Ford gave the great cinematographer Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane, The Grapes of Wrath) an opportunity to direct his first film. What was intended to be a short documentary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor grew into a veritable epic, framed by a debate between Walter Huston's Uncle Sam and Harry Davenport's Mr. C on the true nature of the Pacific paradise. Hawaiian history, rah-rah patriotism, and arguments over the loyalty of the Japanese-American population are capped by a stunning re-creation of the battle so convincing that feature films borrowed footage from it for decades. Arch and dated, it's a fascinating slice of history that until a few years ago was never seen by the public. Toland's criticisms of the American Navy caused it to be withheld until Ford could cut the 82-minute feature into a half-hour short, removing the history and analysis and concentrating solely on the battle and the recovery.

VCI's release features Toland's original cut as well as Movietone News and Universal newsreels of the attack and an unusual Japanese TV newscast covering the 1995 debut of this restored version in Japan.

The DVD also features Ford's Oscar®-winning 34-minute version, audio commentary by four Pearl Harbor survivors, and Frank Capra's 60-minute 1945 documentary Know Your Enemy: Japan, a more traditionally jingoistic piece of wartime propaganda that was narrated by Walter Huston. --Sean Axmaker



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Interesting History
The extras on this product are great, especially the Know Your Enemy (The Eighth in Frank Capra's ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - it is a rare documentary
for generations who never live at that time through this documentary one should learn what the meaning ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Two Good Documentaries on One DVD
This DVD contains two documentaries. The first is John Ford's film about the attack on Pearl Harbor. I ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Good documentary
This movie is a good documentary about what happened in Pearl Harbor, Hawaï, on December 7, 1941. It is ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - important? in it's own way...
I don't quite know what to say about this. John Ford is an important director. I suppose this is important ... Read More


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