Remember Pearl Harbor (film)

Remember Pearl Harbor is a 1942 American propaganda film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan and Isabel Dawn.

[1] The film stars Donald M. Barry, Alan Curtis, Fay McKenzie, Sig Ruman, Ian Keith and Rhys Williams.

[3][N 1]We respectfully dedicate this picture to those gallant men, both American and Philippine, who bravely gave their lives so that the battle for freedom and democracy the world over can and will be won.

The message states a Japanese battleship is approaching Pearl Harbor, Private Steve "Lucky" Smith (Donald M. Barry) meets his fellow soldiers Bruce Gordon (Alan Curtis) and "Portly" Porter (Maynard Holmes) in the Casa Marina bar, where Lucky and Steve try to attract Portly's sister, Marcia (Fay McKenzie).

A businessman named Littlefield (Robert Emmett Keane) slips into Marcia's booth to read the message in the Kümmel bottle.

Lucky escapes from jail and soon after, Anderson, one of the spies, meets with Van Hoorten (Sig Ruman), another Nazi posing as a Dutch Indian.

[5] Reviewer Herbert Cohn of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote: "Remember Pearl Harbor" underneath its title, is a phony.