1941

About 1941

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

Steven Spielberg's 1941 is a 1979 comedy war film. At 118 minutes long, it arrived in December 1979.

Dan Aykroyd stars as Sgt. Frank Tree, Ned Beatty as Ward Douglas, John Belushi as Capt. Wild Bill Kelso, and Lorraine Gary as Joan Douglas. Written by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis.

Shelv files it under submarine, anarchic comedy, panic, and pearl harbor. In the United States it streams on Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel.

Jojo Rabbit, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, and The Final Countdown make useful companions to 1941, all filed under 1940s, satire, and world war ii. It scores 5.8 out of 10 from 739 TMDB voters and it carries a PG rating.