Summary
Prelude to War is an American war film first released in 1943,
directed by Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak.
The film stars Max Schmeling, Robert J. Anderson, Pietro Badoglio, Aristide Briand and Kai-Shek Chiang.
It has also been released under the title: Why We Fight, 1.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
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Credits
- Director: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- Script: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Robert Heller, Williband Hentschel, Adolf Hitler, Eric Knight, Anthony Veiller
- Photo: Robert J. Flaherty
- Music: Hugo Friedhofer, Leigh Harline, Arthur Lange, Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman, David Raksin
- Cast: Max Schmeling (German paratrooper), Robert J. Anderson (Boy donating money for Japanese children), Pietro Badoglio (Himself (unconfirmed)), Aristide Briand (Himself), Kai-Shek Chiang (Himself), Galeazzo Ciano (Himself), Walter Darré (Himself), Otto Dietrich (Himself), Hans Frank (Himself), Josef Goebbels (Himself), Hermann Göring (Himself), Rudolf Hess (Himself), Heinrich Himmler (Himself), Hirohito (Himself), Adolf Hitler (Himself), Herbert Hoover (Himself), Walter Huston (Narrator), Frank B. Kellogg (Himself), Saburo Kurusu (Himself), Pierre Laval (Himself), Robert Ley (Himself), Erich Ludendorff (Himself), Lord Lytton (Himself), Yosuke Matsuoka (Himself), Frank McCoy (Himself), Benito Mussolini (Himself), Henry Pu-yi (Himself), Fritz Reinhardt (Himself), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Himself), Alfred Rosenberg (Himself), Haile Selassie (Himself), Mamoru Shigemitsu (Himself (unconfirmed)), Henry L. Stimson (Himself), Julius Streicher (Himself), Fritz Todt (Himself), Anthony Veiller (Narrator), Paul von Hindenburg (Himself), August von Mackensen (Himself), Joachim von Ribbentrop (Himself), Wendell Willkie (Himself (unconfirmed)), Isoroku Yamamoto (Himself)
- Country: USA
- Language: English / German / Italian / Japanese / Amharic / Russian
- Runtime: 53 min; B&W
- Aka: Why We Fight, 1
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