1941 Page #9

Synopsis: Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. An assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion, in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness, along with a Captain in Germany's Kreigsmarine (Navy).
Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
34
Rotten Tomatoes:
36%
PG
Year:
1979
118 min
1,567 Views


Move it!

Move it!

What the hell is that?

It appears to be

an airplane, sir.

We tried to hold the block.

The plane broke through our perimeter.

Head down Hollywood Blvd.

to Highland!

- Take Highland to Pico! Take Pico to-

To your left

The camp is on your left...

The camp is on to your left

The camp is on to your left...

- Sound off Sound off

- One, two!

Wait, Sarge! Wait for me, Sarge!

Please! Stop!

- What's that?

- It appears to be a large Negro, sir.

- What's that? -

Salesman. - A businessman.

- Accountant.

- A lawyer.

I'll grease your face

with those treads, you punk bastard!

- And that?

- A corporal.

Stretch!

I love you!

Soldier, are you

the pilot of that plane?

Yes, sir. Captain Wild Bill Kelso,

United States Army Air Corps.

I'm proud to report that

I'm the first American...

...to shoot down a Jap plane

over the continental United States.

- You shot down a Jap plane?

- Yes, sir.

A Mitsubishi Zero, sir.

Got back some of that

scrap metal we sold 'em.

Blew the livin' hell outta him

right into the Stone Age.

We just got a report that a plane

went down in the La Brea Tar Pits.

That's him! That's gotta be the one!

I told you I shot him down.

- Is that a Jap plane?

- They don't know.

What do you mean they don't know?

Of course it was a Jap plane.

- You don't think I'd shoot down one of our own, do ya?

- I'm not so sure.

The plane's not important. What's

important is the submarine! The sub!

Submarine?

Shot down a Jap sub too.

No, sir.

I could have, though.

I had him in my sights.

I had that bastard

right where I wanted him.

But I caught it in the radiator.

He's still out there!

What about that plane?

There must be a pilot.

That is the craziest

son of a b*tch I ever saw.

How many more like him

do you think are up there?

Get outta here!

Aw, look.

A baby wolf.

Where?

Gus, you can get into anything.

Open up this ammunition.

- Yes, sir.

- Stevie, round up the neighbors.

I'm going to need help getting this gun

over to where I can get a clear shot.

- Macey, stay close.

- Yes, sir!

That nice soldier told you

not to touch the ordnance.

Don't you think you should

call the army?

The army doesn't know

what they're doing. I can handle this.

- Ward, you're acting like Errol Flynn!

- Joan, damn it! Shut up!

Porca miseria!

I just remembered.

I got two guys stuck on top of the ferris

wheel. Somebody's gotta get 'em down.

Macey, get on your bike,

get over to the amusement pier.

- I gotta watch you sink the sub!

- That's an order, son.

- Yes, sir.

- Kid, this is the key to the control box in the ferris wheel.

- I know. I know, I know.

- Don't touch anything red or silver.

- Yeah, I know. I know.

- Only blue.

Okay, everybody, over here! Get on

this gun. We gotta move it over there!

We're sinking

a Japanese sub tonight.

The camp is on

to your left...

The camp is on

to your left...

Hey, Betty,

there's Officer Miller!

That's the flatfoot

who sent me up the river!

- They're comin' up the beach right now.

Hey, Miller,

look at me!

Wally!

Hey, Miller, don't you know it's

a blackout? Turn out your lights!

- How'd you like that?

- I liked it just fine.

Are you sure you wanna

go through with this, Ward?

Okay. Okay.

Now, we do this.

Watch it!

Oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh!

Whoa! All right.

There! There.

Got him right in my sights.

I don't think

you're gonna hit him.

I can't believe it.

Why aren't they shooting back?

They can't see us,

that's why.

Do not... Push a clip of ammunition

into the feed rollers here.

- Son of a-

- And a steamboat...

- Oh, honey, I saw that movie.

Watch this.

Goin' my way, sister?

Son of a b*tch

stole my tank.

First he gets egg on my uniform; then he

steals my girl; then he steals my tank.

- That's the tank I sent to get that sub.

- Yeah.

- Near some amusement park.

- Yeah, that's right.

- You know where it is?

- Yeah, sure.

Get in.

- Come on! Go! Go! Go, goddamn it!

- Let's go!

Turn right!

Turn right here!

I'm a bug!

You should never pull this

hand-operating lever to the rear.

Let's get outta here!

Do not restore the lever

to the firing position.

- Do not make sure that

this cover is completely closed.

- Auf Wiedersehen. Sayonara.

Lots of luck.

And never ever,

under any circumstances...

- Should you disperse-

Never ever,

under any circumsta-

Oh!

Foot trigger!

Whoa-oh-oh!

I think about 150 to 200

dollars will fix that.

Did it get 'em?

Did it get 'em?

Close, Ward. Close.

Let's get this back out there.

I'll- I'll blast 'em again.

All right.

- That's how people are

- Great, we're lost! Where the hell is it?

- By the ocean.

- The ocean? That's left.

- No, straight. Right.

- Straight?

- Right or straight?

- I said straight, goddamn it!

- Sayonara, sucker.

- What are you doing?

- Never get together...

Geronimo!

- Oh! Oh! Oh!

- Who's got the last laugh now

Hey, quit rockin'

the car!

- Yeah, quit rockin' the car.

- Shut up! I wasn't rockin' it.

- Hey!

- Hey, you guys! I'm supposed to get you down!

- Thank Christ!

It rolls easy once it gets started.

Just kiss it.

- Don't worry, Ward. Gentle as a baby.

- There goes Dad!

- Watch out!

Open the door!

I'll be home...

For Chri-

- Dad!

- You're gonna wreck the whole house!

Boys, go to your room and don't

come down until I call you!

- You're ruining Christmas!

- Gliding it out!

- Ooh!

- Too much.

- You wrecked the stairs!

- Which one do I pull?

- The one on the right. No, the one on the left.

Wait! W-Wait!

Wait! Wait! Ooh!

Coming back!

- Now I've got 'em!

Ward Douglas,

don't you dare...

...fire that gun

in this hou-

Whoa!

Boy, that was fun!

Whew! Wow!

"Warning! Do not...

- Turn on...

- Switch."

Yeah!

- Oh, my God! That's the wrong switch!

Turn off those lights,

you little a**hole!

- Oh, my God.

- Trapped like beavers.

- Hollywood.

- Hollywood.

Give us this day our daily bread

and deliver us from evil.

And please don't let me go to

the same place he goes.

- Oh, my God!

- I can't stop it!

- Ma!

Banzai! Banzai!

- Good-bye, Hollywood!

- Banzai!

Hey, are you okay?

You all right?

Boy, that was fun.

Can we do it again?

- You wanna do it again?

- I wanna do it again.

- You really wanna do it again?

- I blew the exhaust manifold!

- There's the ocean! Hang a right!

- Who cares about the ocean?

Get it off me!

- Hey, hey, hey!

Get in the back of the tank.

- Wait for me.

- Betty!

- Macey!

- How's Mom and Dad?

- They're fine.

- Who knows how to load this gun?

- He does.

- Banzai!

Give me that! Give me that! Give me

that! Give me that! Give me that!

- What's that?

- Uh, here, hold this.

Now, Sarge...

what is the loading

and firing procedure...

...for the 75-millimeter

cannon?

- There are five basic components...

- This is it.

...to the new General Motors

electric refrigerator.

- One, a freon compressor;

- What?

- Two, the freon tube; three, the power

transformer- - No, no. Sarge. No, Sarge.

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