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Director:
Dan Gordon
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Writers:
Jerry Siegel (Superman comic strip created by) and
Joe Shuster (Superman comic strip created by) ...
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Release Date:
20 November 1942 (USA) more
Genre:
Animation | Short more
Plot:
While Clark Kent is in wartime Japan, Superman becomes a saboteur. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Joan Alexander ... Lois Lane (voice) (uncredited)
Bud Collyer ... Clark Kent / Superman (voice) (uncredited)
Jack Mercer ... Japanese guard / Japanese official / American reporter (voice) (uncredited)
Julian Noa ... Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
8 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #3337)
Company:
Famous Studios more

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Quotes:
[first lines]
Voices: Up in the sky, look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!
Narrator: Faster than a streak of lightning! More powerful than the pounding surf! Mightier than a roaring hurricane! This amazing stranger from the planet Krypton, The Man of Steel: Superman! Possessing remarkable physical strength, Superman fights a never-ending battle for truth and justice, disguised as a mild-mannered newspaper reporter, Clark Kent.
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Movie Connections:
Follows Showdown (1942) more

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Clark and Lois held in Japan in Noir-style wartime cartoon, 19 December 2003
Author: Brian Camp from Bronx, NY

"Eleventh Hour" is an amazing Superman cartoon from 1942 that owes more to wartime espionage films than to the earlier sci-fi-themed Superman cartoons. Interestingly, it takes place in Japan, at Yokohama Harbor, where Clark Kent and Lois Lane have been "interned" (Lois's word) by the Japanese. (No explanation is given for this.) At night, Clark, as Superman, sneaks out to sabotage Japanese ships in the harbor. When the Japanese finally realize that Superman is responsible for the damage, they threaten Lois with execution and go so far as to blindfold her and put her in front of a firing squad. Most of the action takes place at night. It's all deadly serious and filled with powerful, dramatic imagery worthy of Hollywood's best wartime dramas. Directed by Dan Gordon, this eight-minute cartoon was made at the height of World War II and was the third Superman cartoon to be completed after the Fleischer brothers left Paramount.

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