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| Kent Smith | ... |
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| Hans Conried | ... |
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Directed by
| Richard Fleischer | ... | (uncredited) |
Written by
| Dr. Seuss | ... | () (as Theodor S. Geisel) and |
| Helen Geisel | ... | () |
Produced by
| Richard Fleischer | ... | producer (as Richard O. Fleischer) |
| Sid Rogell | ... | executive producer |
| Theron Warth | ... | producer |
Music by
| Paul Sawtell | ||
Editing by
| Marston Fay | ||
| Elmo Williams | ||
Editorial Department
| Harold Palmer | ... | montage |
Sound Department
| Earl B. Mounce | ... | sound (as Earl Mounce) |
Special Effects by
| Russell A. Cully | ... | special effects |
Music Department
| C. Bakaleinikoff | ... | musical director |
Additional Crew
| Isaac Kleinerman | ... | film researcher (as I. Kleinerman) |
| John Stratford | ... | film researcher |
Production Companies
Distributors
- RKO Radio Pictures (1947) (United States) (theatrical)
- RKO Radio Pictures (1947) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
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Storyline
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An Academy Award winner for best documentary, the film opens with a notice that..."Exhibition of confiscated Japanese film material authorized by permission of the Alien Property Custodian in the public interest under License No. LM 979"...and was assembled from hundreds of captured newsreels, historical dramas and propaganda films. While revealing the steps that Japan took that led to Pearl Harbor, it goes back 700 years to the feudal caste system, a peasant revolt suppressed after the Samurai murdered over 40,000 people, to Admiral Perry forcibly opening Japan to foreign trade, to the perversion of converting the Shinto religion of nature-worship to that of a fanatic state creed that preached the Japanese were a Master Race and the Emperor was a sun-god to be blindly obeyed. The film carried no credit for a director, while Richard Fleischer shared the Producer credit with Theron Warth.
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| Taglines | WAR-RACKET EXPOSED...in Captured Jap Films! See more » |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | First collaboration between Dr. Seuss and Hans Conried. Conried went on to play the title role in Dr. Seuss' feature film, 'The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T,' as well as lending his voice to numerous television specials based on Seuss' books. See more » |