Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale; John Milius

Music by: John Williams

Producer: Buzz Feitshans

Keywords: Comedy, WWII

In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, paranoid fear of Japanese invasion of Los Angeles prompts strange, frenetic preparations. And there does happen to be a Japanese submarine offshore. Near-slapstick comedy with echoes of It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), this is clearly the albatross around Steven Spielberg's neck.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Nancy Allen	Actor	24-Jun-1950		RoboCop
Dan Aykroyd	Actor	1-Jul-1952		Saturday Night Live, Dr. Detroit
Ned Beatty	Actor	6-Jul-1937		Deliverance
John Belushi	Actor	24-Jan-1949	5-Mar-1982	Animal House
John Candy	Actor	31-Oct-1950	4-Mar-1994	Uncle Buck
Elisha Cook, Jr.	Actor	26-Dec-1903	18-May-1995	The Maltese Falcon
Eddie Deezen	Actor	6-Mar-1957		Mr. Potato Head in Wargames
Joe Flaherty	Comic	21-Jun-1941		SCTV
Samuel Fuller	Film Director	12-Aug-1912	30-Oct-1997	Pickup on South Street
Lorraine Gary	Actor	16-Aug-1937		Jaws
Murray Hamilton	Actor	24-Mar-1923	1-Sep-1986	Jaws
Dianne Kay	Actor	29-Mar-1952		Nancy Bradford on Eight Is Enough
David L. Lander	Actor	22-Jun-1947		Squiggy on Laverne & Shirley
Audrey Landers	Actor	18-Jul-1959		Afton Cooper on Dallas
John Landis	Film Director	3-Aug-1950		An American Werewolf in London
Christopher Lee	Actor	27-May-1922	7-Jun-2015	The Face of Fu Manchu
Patti LuPone	Actor	21-Apr-1949		Won Tony for Evita
Tim Matheson	Actor	31-Dec-1947		Otter in Animal House
Michael McKean	Actor	17-Oct-1947		This Is Spinal Tap, SNL
Frank McRae	Actor	3-Jun-1942		48 Hrs.
Toshirô Mifune	Actor	1-Apr-1920	24-Dec-1997	Yojimbo
Dick Miller	Actor	25-Dec-1928	30-Jan-2019	A Bucket of Blood
Warren Oates	Actor	5-Jul-1928	3-Apr-1982	Two-Lane Blacktop
Slim Pickens	Actor	29-Jun-1919	8-Dec-1983	Tough cowboy actor
Mickey Rourke	Actor	16-Sep-1952		The Wrestler
Donovan Scott	Actor	29-Sep-1946		Police Academy
Wendie Jo Sperber	Actor	15-Sep-1958	29-Nov-2005	Amy on Bosom Buddies
Robert Stack	Actor	13-Jan-1919	14-May-2003	The Untouchables
Lionel Stander	Actor	11-Jan-1908	30-Nov-1994	Chauffer Max on Hart to Hart
Dub Taylor	Actor	26-Feb-1907	3-Oct-1994	Bonnie and Clyde
Maureen Teefy	Actor	26-Oct-1953		Grease 2
Andy Tennant	Film Director	1955		Hitch
Treat Williams	Actor	1-Dec-1951		Prince of the City

CAST

Starring
Dan Aykroyd	...   Sgt. Frank Tree
Ned Beatty	...   Ward Douglas
John Belushi	...   Capt. Wild Bill Kelso
Lorraine Gary	...   Joan Douglas
Murray Hamilton	...   Claude Crumn
Christopher Lee	...   Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
Tim Matheson	...   Capt. Loomis Birkhead
Toshirô Mifune	...   Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura
Warren Oates	...   Col. Maddox
Robert Stack	...   Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
Treat Williams	...   Cpl. Chuck Sitarski
Co-Starring
Nancy Allen	...   Donna Stratton
Lucille Bensen	...   Gas Mama
Jordan Brian	...   Macey Douglas
John Candy	...   Pvt. Foley
Elisha Cook, Jr.	...   The Patron
The Dummy	...   Itself
Eddie Deezen	...   Herbie Kazlminsky
Bobby Di Cicco	...   Wally Stephens
Dianne Kay	...   Betty Douglas
Perry Lang	...   Dennis DeSoto
Patti LuPone	...   Lydia Hedberg
J. Patrick McNamara	...   Pvt. DuBois
Frank McRae	...   Pvt. Ogden Johnson Jones
Steven Mond	...   Gus Douglas
Slim Pickens	...   Hollis P. Wood
Wendie Jo Sperber	...   Maxine Dexheimer
Lionel Stander	...   Angelo Scioli
Dub Taylor	...   Mr. Malcomb
Ignatius Wolfington	...   Meyer Mishkin
Christian Zika	...   Stevie Douglas
with
Joe Flaherty	...   Raoul Lipschitz
Special Appearances by
David L. Lander	...   Joe
Michael McKean	...   Willy
Featuring
Susan Backlinie	...   Polar Bear Woman
E. Hampton Beagle	...   Phone Man
Deborah Benson	...   USO Girl
Don Calfa	...   Telephone Operator
Dave Cameron	...   Reporter
Vito Carenzo	...   Vito -- Shore Patrol
Mark Carlton	...   Stilwell Aide
Gary Cervantes	...   Zoot Suiter
Paul Cloud	...   Stilwell Aide
Luis Contreras	...   Zoot Suiter
Carol Culver	...   Anderson Sister
Lucinda Dooling	...   Lucinda
Gray Frederickson	...   Lt. Bressler
Brian Frishman	...   USO Goon
Samuel Fuller	...   Interceptor Commander
Marjorie Gaines	...   Anderson Sister
Dian & Denise Gallup	...   Twins
Trish Garland	...   Anderson Sister
Barbara Gannen	...   Interceptor Assistant
Brad Gorman	...   USO Nerd
Jerry Hardin	...   Map Man
Diane Hill	...   Interceptor Assistant
Bob Houston	...   Maddox's Soldier
Audrey Landers	...   USO Girl
John Landis	...   Mizerany
Mark Marias	...   Dept. Store Kid
John R. McKee	...   Reporter
Ronnie McMillan	...   Winowski
Dan McNally	...   Reporter
Dick Miller	...   Officer Miller
Akio Mitamura	...   Ashimoto
Antoinette Molinari	...   Mrs. Scioli
Walter Olkewicz	...   Hinshaw
Mickey Rourke	...   Reese
Whitney Rydbeck	...   Daffy
Donovan Scott	...   Kid Sailor
Kerry Sherman	...   USO Girl
Hiroshi Shimizu	...   Ito
Geno Silva	...   Martinez
Rita Taggart	...   Reporter
Maureen Teefy	...   USO Girl
Andy Tennant	...   Babyface
Jack Thibeau	...   Stilwell Aide
Galen Thompson	...   Stilwell Aide
Frank Verroca	...   USO Nerd
John Voldstad	...   USO Nerd
Carol Ann Williams	...   USO Girl
Jenny Williams	...   USO Girl
Elmer	...   Himself

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