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It may possibly be that Mr. Spielberg has chosen gigantic size and unlimited quantity as his comedy method in the awareness that he has no gift whatsoever for small-scale comic conceits.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Overview
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Director and cast
- Steven Spielberg Director
- Dan Aykroyd as Sgt. Frank Tree
- Ned Beatty as Ward Douglas
- John Belushi as Capt. Wild Bill Kelso
- Lorraine Gary as Joan Douglas
- Murray Hamilton as Claude Crumn
- Christopher Lee as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
- Tim Matheson as Capt. Loomis Birkhead
- Toshirō Mifune as Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura
- Warren Oates as Col. 'Madman' Maddox
- Robert Stack as Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
39%
Tomatometer
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IMDb
8.3
Rotten Tomatoes
98%
Metacritic
97
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