Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as 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.
| Release Date: | Dec 1979 |
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| Genre: | War / Comedy |
| Awards: | Nominated for 3 Oscars. |
| Cast: | Dan Aykroyd (Sgt. Frank Tree), Ned Beatty (Ward Douglas), John Belushi (Capt. Wild Bill Kelso), Lorraine Gary (Joan Douglas), Bobby Di Cicco (Wally Stephens), Murray Hamilton (Claude Crumn), Christopher Lee (Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt), Tim Matheson (Capt. Loomis Birkhead), Toshirô Mifune (Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura), Warren Oates (Col. 'Madman' Maddox), Robert Stack (Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell), Treat Williams (Cpl. Chuck 'Stretch' Sitarski), Nancy Allen (Donna Stratton), Lucille Benson (Gas Mama (Eloise) (as Lucille Bensen)), Jordan Brian (Macey Douglas) |