Me and my entire family sat around a floor model Magnavox on Christmas Eve 1986 and watched this. I never heard my dad and uncle George laugh so loud. To me, this tradition still plays at my house. 1941, a Christmas film.
Don't care what the majority thinks, this is on my list of favorite Spielberg films. As for sheer insanity on screen I put it up there with 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World as one of the better ensemble comedies ever made.
i agree i saw it when it came out and try and watch it whenever it comes on, heard they orginaly offered john wayne the robert stack role, to bad he turned it down as much as i liked the shootist i felt this would have been a better final role for him. however i can understand his reason for turning it down
I’m 34. My father is 70. It’s his favourite comedy ever, he let me watch it with him when I was 9 I believe. I’ve never seen him laugh as hard as he does when watching this. When I got older I obviously understood why it was so hilarious and it’s easily my favourite comedy ever made as well. I’ll always have this movie and the memories me and my dad made during the countless times we’ve watched this together. Imagine trying to make this movie today ? People would riot due to how offensive it is lol…ah man I wish we could go back to when people could take a joke.
@@rickc.4294 What is TO, he lived up in the mountains above border lake Wyoming. Near Border Wyoming. A very small town. gas station bar grocery store all in one.
I like how Slim checks off the contents of his pockets like he did in Dr Stranglove when his character Maj. Kong is going over thecontents of the survival kit !
"shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all this stuff". There will never be another Slim Pickens. R.I.P. Hollis, thanks For the laughs.
I love it. I just noticed that Slim is doing the ration kit scene from Dr. Strangelove. 'Fella could have a pretty good time in Vegas with this stuff.' This is such an awesome movie here and Slim is hysterical
How this flick has been so drastically overlooked is beyond me. Chock-a-block full of hellacious talent from top to bottom. Hilarious story line and dialog, great dancing....what's not to LOVE?
One of the funniest moments occurs rights after Slim is brought aboard the sub and the Japanese are trying to get his rather large radio into one of the circular hatches. After a few moments of trying every possible way, he remarks, "We have to figure out how to make these things smaller". A bit humorous since Japan dominated the industry by miniaturizing things like portable radios, hand held games and tv's.
Had the Honor of Meeting Slim Pickens a long time ago when I was a boy. I liked his work in 1941 and my father who was a military officer had met him while filming "Dr. Strange Love-How I learned to love the Atomic Bomb". It's funny how he got the name Slim Pickens. When he was young and wanted to go into a rodeo, and asked what his chances were of working as a rodeo cowboy, the owner said it was Slim Picking's he ever would. So he used the name.
I’ve been on a samurai movie binge recently, the captain of the sub is toshiro mifune, he’s starred in some of the biggest samurai movies back in the 50’s and 60’s.
I wonder if someone were to do a remake of this film, but it’s much more serious and grittier than Spielberg’s goofy comedy. If they’re going to do a Spielberg remake, then they’re better off remaking this one, because I guarantee no one on this earth wants a remake of Jaws or Indiana Jones
This scene cracks me up so much!! Amazing that they got one of Japan's best samurai actors, Tishiro Mifume for this silly stuff...makes it all the better!! haha
+Ricardo Torres The late great Christopher Lee was actually an officer in the British Royal Air Force in WWII and served with distinction in North Africa and Italy. He later became a member of the infamous British MI6 branch Special Operations Executive (SOE), a shadowy British Special Forces commando unit known notoriously as "The Unit of Dirty Tricks". He was highly educated, a world traveler, spoke at least seven languages fluently. He also lived abroad and made many movies during his impressive career in foreign markets like Germany, Italy, and Spain. Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord of the Rings movies for an upcoming scene where Lee was playing the evil Sarumon once asked Christopher Lee to imagine the sound of what a knife would sound and feel like going into a person's back. Mr. Lee replied in all seriousness that he very vividly remembered from his WWII experiences how he already knew.
That reminds me of Basil Rathbone who came before him. Not too dissimilar a career in both acting and military. A few years from now, there will be an entire generation that would never of heard of either.
Slim Pickins was hilarious!He started as real cowboy on the farm,and quite the rodeo rider as well.He got discovered doing a rodeo clown gig that he was in demand for as well because of exemplary his skills.The rest is history.
modelleg I always thought his lips didn't match up I knew he was saying something else but never knew it was dallas and why they changed it. Learn something new every day!
Tolkien rocks!!! Fun fact: Christopher Lee was the only cast member to have met JRR Tolkien. Lee read the Lord of the Rings trilogy at least once a year. I read about this from a trivia on Amazon Prime
One of the best comedies ever made. So many bullets fired and yet... the playful meditation on love and war is unmatched by nearly every other film Hell, the special effects budget felt like extra icing for maximum effect!
Found out an interesting fact. The sub in this movie was names I-19. In World War Two, the Japanese sub I-19 sank the USS Wasp, a destroyer and heavily damaged the battleship North Carolina, all in one salvo, making it one of the most destructive salvos of the war. I wonder why they chose that number for the movie?
"On 22 December 1941, off Point Arguello, 55 miles north of Santa Barbara. The Japanese submarine I-19, under the command of Commander Matsamura Kenji chases the 10,763-ton Standard Oil Company tanker H. M. STOREY for about an hour and then fired two torpedoes with 2-second intervals. Just then a third torpedo starts a "hot run" and it has to be fired as well. All the torpedoes miss. The tanker escapes, but was later sunk by the I-25 later in the war." The other witness, who had binoculars, could see the submarine plainly. "It was between the tanker and the shore when I saw it," she said, "less than two miles away. I saw what I thought were two torpedoes fired from the submarine at the ship, but they all went behind it. The tanker then went full speed ahead, with heavy black smoke pouring from her funnel." Not long after that, planes arrived and dropped several bombs. "They were so heavy that when they exploded they shook the ground where I was standing," the woman continued. "The explosions raised great columns of water."
I think the John Wayne line was an afterthought. John Wayne was considered for the part of General Stilwell, he flat out refused and told Steven Spielberg not to make a comedy of such an important war. My guess is this was a bit of a jab at him, one way or another he was gonna be in the film. They also considered him for just a cameo and Charlton Heston for Stilwell as well.
"One authentic, early American, Harry Carry knife. Pass it around boys, maybe somebody's got a good use for it." As many have already noted, this movie is so brilliant on many different levels. The critics bombed this movie only because they hated Spielberg and the success he had with Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind and ET.
Then why did Critics like "Raiders of the lost ark" if they hated spielberg?? It wasn't personal This movie is loaded with Cheesy slapstick and toilet humor. I mean really. For Belushi's character they basically took his character Bluto from Animal House and stuck him in an Airplane and John Candy, one of the all time great comedic actors didn't even have any dialog in this mess of a movie. The "pass it around boys" line you think is so brilliant was a line stolen from "Blazing Saddles" when Mel Brooks as governor is handing out paddle ball paddles to his cabinet and said "Pass it around boys. Spielberg is so strapped for good materiel that he resorts to spoofing his own movies. Rumor has it that the hollywood A listers that went to the premier left depressed because they couldn't believe how bad the movie was.
toscodav Maybe I am a sucker for WWII movies. Long before directors understood the need for making a period piece authentic by using appropriate props (ie: correct planes, weapons, cars, clothing, etc), Spieldberg was on it. The zoot suits in the movie were spot like everything else. I can't argue the point you made about the film being chuck full of cheesy lines and slapstick but too me, that's what made it funny as hell. The scene where Dan Aykroyd go knocked in the head and pulled the mesh bag containing oranges over his head and put the oranges over his eyes and yelled, 'i'm a fly!' - that was money. Maybe I am also a sap for a bad-ass P-40 that paid homage to the Flying Tigers - who knows. I just know Hollywood critics always have an agenda and they had one with Spielberg when they critiqued this film. In the end, Spielberg proved he is one of the most epic directors of all time.
+toscodav Some critics, some members of the press and quite a few of his hostile movie business rivals WERE out to get Spielberg no matter what he did in 1979. There's a whole backstory there of the Machiavellian politics and Hollywood infighting and jealousy that went on then. I think you';re being overly critical and unfair to the fiml like many people were then who just didn't get it and is missing the point of what was it really about. "1941" was a huge hit in Europe and Japan for its supposed America,self-deprecating nihilism, as far as toilet humor, whatever is in there is pretty mild and tame compared to the garbage they bombard us with today.I don't know if you have already, but you should see the superior, longer, Fully Restored Special Edition Director's Cut. That is the true version. Any other cut of the film is a waste of time or just seeing snippets of the whole story. The public and most of his fans in 1979 wanted to see Belushi as Bluto in an airplane, Spielberg deliberately parodied his own "Jaws", had Pickens brilliantly parody his own famous scene from "Dr. Strangelove", John Candy was an unknown then nationally except to fans of the lesser-known Second City Comedy TV and there were some much bigger names and many A-listers he had t contend with. It wasn't even his script. It was based on actual historic incidents and the war hysteria that did in fact grab the California coast residents after the Pearl Harbor attack. Anyways, Robert Altman's M*A*S*H* was similar along the same lines as it was based on the novel of the same name which was taken from actual incidents of Korean War-era, both-disturbing, dramatic, wartime trauma and Army Medical Corps surgeons' fraternity-type pranks, hi-jinks, and nurse-chasing shenanigans. What are some of your favourite "funny" movies?
Maximuscaligula Toilet humor is fine but it only works when masters like Mel Brooks attempt it. here are my favorite comedy movies. * Any Woody Allen Movie * Blazing Saddles *Young Frankenstein * Spinal Tap * Animal House *Caddy shack * Ghost Busters * Longest Yard * Best in Show * Bad news Bears * Monte Python and the Holy grail * Which Way is up
No 'Spaceballs'? you are probably too young but one of the BEST comedies of all time is 'It's a MAD MAD MAD world'. One of the few comedies I can still watch and laugh my ass off.
Such a funny, anarchic movie with so many great actors in so many funny cameo roles, and so many great set pieces such as the submarine scene with Pickens, Mifune,.and Lee, the USO Dance and fight scene, the shoot out the lights scene, Capt. Loomis and Donna Stratton in the airplane, and the destruction of the house on the bluff by Ned Beatty. Brilliant!
a very funny underrated movie loved this scene and really most in the move, also the neighbor assessing the damage as the father destroys the house firing the cannon left by the army
"Hey boy, watch that knife" always seemed to me as Slim Pickens paying respect to Ward Bond in "The Searchers', who repeatedly said "Boy, you watch out for that knife!" to a young Cavalry officer (played by Patrick Wayne, John Wayne's son), who was in his eyes being careless with his saber during charges. Incidentally, John Wayne turned down the role of General Stillwell in this film because he didn't think anything in WWII should ever be made light of. BTW, in "The Searchers", Ward Bond's character Captain Clayton ended up stabbed in the buttocks with that saber, to clear humorous effect.
Where Hollywood ? Right here 😂🤣😂🤣Hollis Wood ,Slim Pickens and Toshiro Mifune were hilarious along with Christopher Lee ,R I P all 3 ,Thanks for the laughs in this classic 😂😂🤣🤣
Slim Pickens was a hell of an actor, hands down.
From riding an atom bomb to riding a submarine. BTW, Christopher Lee's German language speech is real.
The fact this submarine has to rely on a toy compass is still as funny today as it was 45 years ago.
Me and my entire family sat around a floor model Magnavox on Christmas Eve 1986 and watched this.
I never heard my dad and uncle George laugh so loud.
To me, this tradition still plays at my house.
1941, a Christmas film.
How Life Should Be, Amen
I ripped a stitch laughing....😂😂....
The family at the end firing at the sub.....
The kids😅 The wife 😅 hilarious 😆😆
Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee, Slim Pickens, so many great actors in one hilarious, over the top scene
Slim Pickens was also Major Kong in Dr Strangelove
@@josephgallacher3729 Amen and he was in Dozens of Western Movies.
Slim Pickens. My all time favorite actor. He was truly one of a kind.
Especially in in Dr. Strangelove
@@grant8917 Don't forget "Blazing Saddles"
"Why'd you have to go and tear up my radio?" Haha
He was pretty good in The Getaway.. Steve McQueen , Ally Macgraw
Don't care what the majority thinks, this is on my list of favorite Spielberg films. As for sheer insanity on screen I put it up there with 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World as one of the better ensemble comedies ever made.
Definitely been my favorite Spielberg film since it came out. It's just so damned funny =)
Totally underrated. This scene reminds me of abbot and Costello.
i agree i saw it when it came out and try and watch it whenever it comes on, heard they orginaly offered john wayne the robert stack role, to bad he turned it down as much as i liked the shootist i felt this would have been a better final role for him. however i can understand his reason for turning it down
Oh yes, my uncle showed us these movies growing up along side mad mad mad world, blazing saddles
True
"Betcha gonna bomb John Wayne's house" has to be one of the best lines in any comedy movie
lol
John Wayno ?............I knew it!
the way he says it it is and then he starts to sing over th....Indeed ,priceless .
Yeah
“Where…Orange county?”
Three legends in one scene: Mifune, Lee & Pickens. Wow
In three languages
This film didnt deserve the hate it got back in the day, it is a legit classic one of Spielberg's best.
That, people. is Toshiro Mifune. One of the top 10 best actors of all time in film.
He was really great.
Slim Pickings, Toshiro Mifune( Japan’s John Wayne, ( Sir Christopher
Sir Christopher is much more dangerous than Mifune, he would leave that guy without any drop of blood and took a bunch of otcs out of nowhere
He was a superb actor..
I would love to see the outtakes
"I fought you're kind in the Great War, and we kicked the livin' shit out of ya!" lol. I love it.
Well I think the ‘Yanks’ arrived 3 weeks before the end of WW1
Th3n ".........over there, over there the Yanks are coming the Huns are running, " !!!!¡ Brilliant !!!!
Best ever!!!
I’m 34. My father is 70. It’s his favourite comedy ever, he let me watch it with him when I was 9 I believe. I’ve never seen him laugh as hard as he does when watching this. When I got older I obviously understood why it was so hilarious and it’s easily my favourite comedy ever made as well. I’ll always have this movie and the memories me and my dad made during the countless times we’ve watched this together. Imagine trying to make this movie today ? People would riot due to how offensive it is lol…ah man I wish we could go back to when people could take a joke.
"Let's see you try and find Hollywood now, you scrawny little.....hey boy, watch that knife" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Hey boy, watch that knife." LMAO! Dead serious all of a sudden.
Prune juice?
Damn it, you beat me to it....lol
Dude, that was funny af.
Reminds me of Ward Bond saying that to Patrick Wayne in "The Searchers"
Slim Pickens was the best. Great guy in real life. Use to dig him worms for fishing when I was a kid.
Man I'd love to have met Slim, I've always read he was as genuine of a person as you would ever meet.
You from TO?
@@markroberts1301 He was, big kind warm heart, funny as hell to.
@@markroberts1301 He was genuine as the come. Big hearted man. New him as a child to young adult.
@@rickc.4294 What is TO, he lived up in the mountains above border lake Wyoming. Near Border Wyoming. A very small town. gas station bar grocery store all in one.
I like how Slim checks off the contents of his pockets like he did in Dr Stranglove when his character Maj. Kong is going over thecontents of the survival kit !
clefmmann65 Non condom though.
+clefmmann65 I've seen both movies dozens of times and that never occurred to me! That's hilarious!
clefmmann65 That was a great performance.. gosh did I ever laugh..
Speilberg did it on purpose.
"shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all this stuff". There will never be another Slim Pickens. R.I.P. Hollis, thanks For the laughs.
My god for Slim Pickens, greatest character actor that ever was and will be.
I love how he read his name, occupation (rank), and social security number. Lmao, that was gold
It seems Spielberg was very influenced by classical P.O.W.' s movies he watched when he was a kid...
I love it. I just noticed that Slim is doing the ration kit scene from Dr. Strangelove. 'Fella could have a pretty good time in Vegas with this stuff.' This is such an awesome movie here and Slim is hysterical
"...one box of DELICIOUS Carmel coated popcorn..."
Christopher Lee and Slim Pickens In the same scene. Only in a Spielberg movie. Loved it.
How this flick has been so drastically overlooked is beyond me. Chock-a-block full of hellacious talent from top to bottom. Hilarious story line and dialog, great dancing....what's not to LOVE?
I was born in 1982 , never heard or seen of this movie!! I never laughed so much in my life . Movies today can not hold this movie down
I saw it when it came out, and went in the Navy ⚓️🇺🇸🫡 2 years later, so it was extra funny for me! 🤣👍 Even though I wasn’t a submariner.
I saw it in the theater and the entire theater was roaring!
It failed at Box Office
It's a classic. ..slim is hilarious
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Toshiro Mifune was an excellent comedic actor. I'm very happy he was in this.
Whatever movie Slim Pickens came out it was. Great! REST in Peace Mr Slim Pickens!
Screen pairings you never thought you would see, Slim Pickens doing a scene with Toshiro Mifune.
And throw in Christopher Lee for good measure.
Of all the actors i wanted to share a beer with Slim Pickens top of the list. Slim was awesome.
One of the funniest moments occurs rights after Slim is brought aboard the sub and the Japanese are trying to get his rather large radio into one of the circular hatches. After a few moments of trying every possible way, he remarks, "We have to figure out how to make these things smaller". A bit humorous since Japan dominated the industry by miniaturizing things like portable radios, hand held games and tv's.
Reverant.
I'm sitting in a cruise ship in LA port. 1st time in Cali and I'm thinking of this clip from movie. HOLLYWOOD!!!!! 😂
Ya felt privileged or ashamed there near Hollyweird? And yes l spelt that geographical place intentionally wrong.
Pickens just can’t help but be funny. A true natural.
Had the Honor of Meeting Slim Pickens a long time ago when I was a boy. I liked his work in 1941 and my father who was a military officer had met him while filming "Dr. Strange Love-How I learned to love the Atomic Bomb". It's funny how he got the name Slim Pickens. When he was young and wanted to go into a rodeo, and asked what his chances were of working as a rodeo cowboy, the owner said it was Slim Picking's he ever would. So he used the name.
Over there, over there....one of the best characters ever put on the screen. Too bad the actor died so young (63).
The older i get the more I appreciate this movie. Truly a classic.
Starting at 2:18 Slim Pickens briefly reprises his performance as Major Kong in Dr Strangelove.
"Let's see you try and find Hollywood now, you scrawny little - hey boy, watch that knife"
love how he came to pick that SLIM PICKENS as a screen name. class act.
John Becker his brothers name was Easy Pickens lol so Slim and Easy Pickens
Andrew Griffith Nooo! That was his sister's name.
And if I'm lyin may the GL hair-lip evry man on Bar Crick.
It was his brother.
Diane Joyner it has been a year but I will post that you have made a great post indeed... best regards ,,
"I fought yer kind in the Great War---and we kicked the livin' shit outa ya...."
"Hey boy, watch that knife."
This guy’s just asking for it”
" Pass it around boys, maybe somebody's got a use for it."
***** Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
"One authentic early American Hara-Kiri knife. Pass that around boys, maybe somebody has a use for it." Awesome!
I’ve been on a samurai movie binge recently, the captain of the sub is toshiro mifune, he’s starred in some of the biggest samurai movies back in the 50’s and 60’s.
Plus was a co-star in the 1980 Shogun as Toranaga (Tokaguwa Iayasu)
@@wisskier you guys; Academy Award for playing the prison commandant in "Bridge Over the River Kawai".......great role for him.
This is pure genius. Genius.
I have this fantasy about meeting Spielberg and telling him this is my favorite movie and begging for a '42 sequel.
I wonder if someone were to do a remake of this film, but it’s much more serious and grittier than Spielberg’s goofy comedy. If they’re going to do a Spielberg remake, then they’re better off remaking this one, because I guarantee no one on this earth wants a remake of Jaws or Indiana Jones
Funniest scene is when the Japanese poured the prune juice in and on his mouth and said "mushi ...mushi!" LoL!
"One authentic early American Harakiri knife, pass it around boys maybe someone has a use for it" haha
lol "....Prune Juice?....Aw HELL NAH!!!"
Next stop, squatting over a screen door!
This scene cracks me up so much!! Amazing that they got one of Japan's best samurai actors, Tishiro Mifume for this silly stuff...makes it all the better!! haha
Miss these guys.
RIP mr Christopher lee pretty good acting of a nazi officer you even made small roles interesting
+Ricardo Torres The late great Christopher Lee was actually an officer in the British Royal Air Force in WWII and served with distinction in North Africa and Italy. He later became a member of the infamous British MI6 branch Special Operations Executive (SOE), a shadowy British Special Forces commando unit known notoriously as "The Unit of Dirty Tricks". He was highly educated, a world traveler, spoke at least seven languages fluently. He also lived abroad and made many movies during his impressive career in foreign markets like Germany, Italy, and Spain. Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord of the Rings movies for an upcoming scene where Lee was playing the evil Sarumon once asked Christopher Lee to imagine the sound of what a knife would sound and feel like going into a person's back. Mr. Lee replied in all seriousness that he very vividly remembered from his WWII experiences how he already knew.
That reminds me of Basil Rathbone who came before him. Not too dissimilar a career in both acting and military. A few years from now, there will be an entire generation that would never of heard of either.
Slim Pickins was hilarious!He started as real cowboy on the farm,and quite the rodeo rider as well.He got discovered doing a rodeo clown gig that he was in demand for as well because of exemplary his skills.The rest is history.
Slim Pickens nailed that role perfectly!!!! Rest in peace Sir!!!
Slim Pickens is a American treasure.
Slim Pickins was terrific. "Survival kit contents check: inside you will find..."
A guy could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all that
modelleg "shoot a fella can have a pretty good weekend in vegas with all that!"
Cheezeburger Walrus you beat me to it lol. I didn't even see you had posted that till after I had.
Actually he says "Dallas" but they overdubbed it following Kennedy's assassination.
modelleg I always thought his lips didn't match up I knew he was saying something else but never knew it was dallas and why they changed it. Learn something new every day!
I know that Christopher Lee just died recently. But seriously where the Love for Slim Pickens.
The inventory of his pockets reminds me of him inventorying the survival kit in Dr. Strangelove
Christopher Lee, Toshiro Mifune, and Slim Pickens together on screen, FTW
What A TRIO !!
1:48 Lee is struggling to keep a straight face😂
Slim Pickens and Toshiro Mifune! How unusual to see Major Kong outside the cockpit of his B-52, and Admiral Yamamoto not plotting to destroy Midway.
2:14 Christopher Lee prepares for a Tolkien poetry read
Tolkien rocks!!!
Fun fact: Christopher Lee was the only cast member to have met JRR Tolkien. Lee read the Lord of the Rings trilogy at least once a year. I read about this from a trivia on Amazon Prime
One of the best comedies ever made. So many bullets fired and yet... the playful meditation on love and war is unmatched by nearly every other film
Hell, the special effects budget felt like extra icing for maximum effect!
Old Slim Pickens the greatest character actor of all time!
God bless his memory ..
1:48 The way he says "and we kicked the living shit out of ya" is just perfect. LMFAO!
Merica 🤣🇺🇸
a little bit of slims nod to his character from dr strange love
Direction as elegant as Ophuls, Lubitsch, Ozu, etc. Young Spielberg was on fire, even in his "bad" films.
It is one of the most underrated performances in Hollywood or Holliswood history.
priceless sceene ,humor at it's best "from north to sauce " all the way till the end
"This has NOT been honorable."
Classic. Great stuff
"Where Harrywood?" "Right Here" lol
“Hollywood?”
“Uh huh”
“Where?!”
“Here!”
Found out an interesting fact. The sub in this movie was names I-19. In World War Two, the Japanese sub I-19 sank the USS Wasp, a destroyer and heavily damaged the battleship North Carolina, all in one salvo, making it one of the most destructive salvos of the war. I wonder why they chose that number for the movie?
"On 22 December 1941, off Point Arguello, 55 miles north of Santa Barbara. The Japanese submarine I-19, under the command of Commander Matsamura Kenji chases the 10,763-ton Standard Oil Company tanker H. M. STOREY for about an hour and then fired two torpedoes with 2-second intervals. Just then a third torpedo starts a "hot run" and it has to be fired as well. All the torpedoes miss. The tanker escapes, but was later sunk by the I-25 later in the war."
The other witness, who had binoculars, could see the submarine plainly. "It was between the tanker and the shore when I saw it," she said, "less than two miles away. I saw what I thought were two torpedoes fired from the submarine at the ship, but they all went behind it. The tanker then went full speed ahead, with heavy black smoke pouring from her funnel." Not long after that, planes arrived and dropped several bombs. "They were so heavy that when they exploded they shook the ground where I was standing," the woman continued. "The explosions raised great columns of water."
I think the John Wayne line was an afterthought. John Wayne was considered for the part of General Stilwell, he flat out refused and told Steven Spielberg not to make a comedy of such an important war. My guess is this was a bit of a jab at him, one way or another he was gonna be in the film. They also considered him for just a cameo and Charlton Heston for Stilwell as well.
Nicholas Van Blarcum Robert Stack was perfect though.
"One authentic, early American, Harry Carry knife. Pass it around boys, maybe somebody's got a good use for it." As many have already noted, this movie is so brilliant on many different levels. The critics bombed this movie only because they hated Spielberg and the success he had with Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind and ET.
Then why did Critics like "Raiders of the lost ark" if they hated spielberg?? It wasn't personal This movie is loaded with Cheesy slapstick and toilet humor. I mean really. For Belushi's character they basically took his character Bluto from Animal House and stuck him in an Airplane and John Candy, one of the all time great comedic actors didn't even have any dialog in this mess of a movie. The "pass it around boys" line you think is so brilliant was a line stolen from "Blazing Saddles" when Mel Brooks as governor is handing out paddle ball paddles to his cabinet and said "Pass it around boys. Spielberg is so strapped for good materiel that he resorts to spoofing his own movies. Rumor has it that the hollywood A listers that went to the premier left depressed because they couldn't believe how bad the movie was.
toscodav
Maybe I am a sucker for WWII movies. Long before directors understood the need for making a period piece authentic by using appropriate props (ie: correct planes, weapons, cars, clothing, etc), Spieldberg was on it. The zoot suits in the movie were spot like everything else.
I can't argue the point you made about the film being chuck full of cheesy lines and slapstick but too me, that's what made it funny as hell. The scene where Dan Aykroyd go knocked in the head and pulled the mesh bag containing oranges over his head and put the oranges over his eyes and yelled, 'i'm a fly!' - that was money. Maybe I am also a sap for a bad-ass P-40 that paid homage to the Flying Tigers - who knows. I just know Hollywood critics always have an agenda and they had one with Spielberg when they critiqued this film. In the end, Spielberg proved he is one of the most epic directors of all time.
+toscodav Some critics, some members of the press and quite a few of his hostile movie business rivals WERE out to get Spielberg no matter what he did in 1979. There's a whole backstory there of the Machiavellian politics and Hollywood infighting and jealousy that went on then. I think you';re being overly critical and unfair to the fiml like many people were then who just didn't get it and is missing the point of what was it really about. "1941" was a huge hit in Europe and Japan for its supposed America,self-deprecating nihilism, as far as toilet humor, whatever is in there is pretty mild and tame compared to the garbage they bombard us with today.I don't know if you have already, but you should see the superior, longer, Fully Restored Special Edition Director's Cut. That is the true version. Any other cut of the film is a waste of time or just seeing snippets of the whole story. The public and most of his fans in 1979 wanted to see Belushi as Bluto in an airplane, Spielberg deliberately parodied his own "Jaws", had Pickens brilliantly parody his own famous scene from "Dr. Strangelove", John Candy was an unknown then nationally except to fans of the lesser-known Second City Comedy TV and there were some much bigger names and many A-listers he had t contend with. It wasn't even his script. It was based on actual historic incidents and the war hysteria that did in fact grab the California coast residents after the Pearl Harbor attack. Anyways, Robert Altman's M*A*S*H* was similar along the same lines as it was based on the novel of the same name which was taken from actual incidents of Korean War-era, both-disturbing, dramatic, wartime trauma and Army Medical Corps surgeons' fraternity-type pranks, hi-jinks, and nurse-chasing shenanigans. What are some of your favourite "funny" movies?
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Toilet humor is fine but it only works when masters like Mel Brooks attempt it. here are my favorite comedy movies.
* Any Woody Allen Movie
* Blazing Saddles
*Young Frankenstein
* Spinal Tap
* Animal House
*Caddy shack
* Ghost Busters
* Longest Yard
* Best in Show
* Bad news Bears
* Monte Python and the Holy grail
* Which Way is up
No 'Spaceballs'? you are probably too young but one of the BEST comedies of all time is 'It's a MAD MAD MAD world'. One of the few comedies I can still watch and laugh my ass off.
R.I.P Slim Pickens (1919-1983)
R.I.P Christopher Lee (1922-2015)
The opening scene, the parody of " jaws", omg, it kills me with laughter every single time, " HORREEWOOD!!!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Bomb John Wayne"s House!!!!" made me shat myself!
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Lololo.... " which way to a horryvood.."..?
Best movie ever made.
I ran this movie, while working in our local movie theatre when I was a senior in High school!
Slim’s THE Best !!! I laughed so hard when he had to go to the bathroom in that movie. And they were listening. So damn funny !!!
mine too, this is such an underrated movie, one of Spielberg´s best. It´s on my list forever
It still boggles my mind that people hate this movie so much
Best part of the movie. Slim was hilarious in every movie he did.
These Japanese guys are so funny in this movie. Their conversations crack me the hell up! 🤣😅
“Hey boy watch that knife”
Such a funny, anarchic movie with so many great actors in so many funny cameo roles, and so many great set pieces such as the submarine scene with Pickens, Mifune,.and Lee, the USO Dance and fight scene, the shoot out the lights scene, Capt. Loomis and Donna Stratton in the airplane, and the destruction of the house on the bluff by Ned Beatty. Brilliant!
" Tried Sneak Up On Me Just Like Ya Did Pearl Harbour " bet yer gonna bomb John Wayne's House. !! EPIC
Best rendition of "over there" ever ..
My favorite slim pickens role was major Kong. He was great
Love this movie and especially Slim's performance!
"Let's see you try and find Hollywood now you scrawny little.....Hey boy watch that knife."
Awesome Christmas movie every year😊
Awesomely fantastic scene in a great movie! Such fine actors in one scene too! Still - after all these years - one of my family’s favorite movies
Still one of my favorite scenes I lose it every Damn time!
Gotta love Christopher Lee in this movie along with Slim Pickens
a very funny underrated movie loved this scene and really most in the move, also the neighbor assessing the damage as the father destroys the house firing the cannon left by the army
Christopher Lee & Toshiro Mifune great performance :D
"Hey boy, watch that knife" always seemed to me as Slim Pickens paying respect to Ward Bond in "The Searchers', who repeatedly said "Boy, you watch out for that knife!" to a young Cavalry officer (played by Patrick Wayne, John Wayne's son), who was in his eyes being careless with his saber during charges. Incidentally, John Wayne turned down the role of General Stillwell in this film because he didn't think anything in WWII should ever be made light of. BTW, in "The Searchers", Ward Bond's character Captain Clayton ended up stabbed in the buttocks with that saber, to clear humorous effect.
Hey boy !!!! Watch that knife !!! 😂 HAHAHAHAHA 🤣HAHAHAHAHA
Slim Pickens was one of the greatest character actors of all time. 👍
Where Hollywood ? Right here 😂🤣😂🤣Hollis Wood ,Slim Pickens and Toshiro Mifune were hilarious along with Christopher Lee ,R I P all 3 ,Thanks for the laughs in this classic 😂😂🤣🤣
Omg Slim pays homage to Dr Strange love with the list of things
You sneaky little bastards, is the best line … 😂
"i'll bet your gonna bomb John Waynes house are ya?" What a crack up!
Slim Pickens was just so naturally 😁
3:58 "Prune juice..." that look of horror at the realization of what's next.
Great clip! Hollis P. Wood was my weird uncle.
1 of the BEST MOVIES of All time.