December 7th

John Ford's DECEMBER 7th: THE MOVIE was banned by the U.S. Government for nearly fifty years. The film is now available to the general public for the first time ever in this copyrighted Special 50th Anniversary Edition, fully restored to its original eighty two minuate length with subtitles added to the controversial Japanese language sequences and a descriptive prologue created for the modern audience. (A completely censored 34-minuate version of the film was released and earned John Ford his fourth Academy Award.Ⓡ) This full-length, unreleased version stars Walter Huston as Uncle Sam and is set in Honolulu on the day before the Japanese attack. Uncle Sam vacations complacently in Hawaii,concerned with the on going war in Europe. On Sunday morning, December 7th, air squadrons appear, "swooping down like flights of tiny locusts". The attack on Pearl Harbor, America's first battle of World War II, is vividly illustrated as only Hollywood can do. The film was banned because of its investigatory nature which the government felt resulted in finger pointing toward its own faults in the episode.It was confiscated as "damaging to morale"