6.9
Powder Keg
2001
Mr. Blabbermouth! (1942)
August 8, 194219mEN
4.6
10 votes
Overview
Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, America was rife with rumors about the size of Japan's armed forces and how well-equipped they were to wage war against the U.S. Using animation, the first part of this film dispels these rumors by showing that the U.S. had more raw materials and more fighting ships. The narrator also cautions moviegoers against spreading rumors (which are often initiated by enemy infiltrators to create fear and dissention) and believing everything they read in the newspapers. Just because "they say" something, that doesn't make it true.
Director
Basil WrangellWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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CinemaSerf
6.0This features quite an effective use of archive to bolster US public awareness of the risk of idle talk. Using a variety of social scenarios, we put some “I’ve heard” or “I’ve read” sentences in the mouths of those in the shops, the hairdressers and the bars and then attempt to counter these speculative gossips with some facts and then some out and out propaganda about the superiority of the American soldier, kit and technology against not just the Japanese, but the Nazis too. On that last front, it does recognise that the USA is not the only nation fighting here, but as this is essentially d…
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