| BANNED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FOR NEARLY 50
YEARS December 7th - The Pearl Harbor Story (Uncensored Version) |
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Starring Walter
Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews &Paul Hurst. Directed by: John Ford
&Gregg Toland Music by Alfred Newman THIS COLLECTION IS A MUST HAVE FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN WORLD WAR II! 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. 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. The acclaimed feature-length dramatization of the administrative mishaps which precipitated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Banned by the U.S. government for its criticism of Army policy and its alleged anti-Americanism. (A completely censored 34-minute version of the film was released in 1943 and won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Production) THIS DISC FEATURES: Toland's original UNCENSORED cut. Actual Pearl Harbor Movietone Newsreels Actual Pearl Harbor Universal newsreels Japan's Reaction! To the 1995 debut of this restored version in Japan. Ford's Oscar®-winning 34-minute version: Audio commentary by four Pearl Harbor survivors Frank Capra's 60-minute 1945 documentary "Know Your Enemy: Japan"(1945) Region 0-For Global Distribution -Not Rated B&W Film --Original censored release 1943 Uncensored Released: 2007 --With Special Features Total RunTime: 3 hrs 26 Min. --Release Language: English --Subtitled in English --Original Language: English Single Side - Dual Layer Audio: ---Dolby Digital Mono. |
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