RESTORED version of 1941?

The first "joke" in the movie was a scene where a Japanese sailor is climbing back down the hatch into the submarine which is about to submerge. He looks up and sees a naked young woman swimmer clinging to the periscope above him. He yells "Hollywood! Hollywood!" 

I guess it was a joke. It must have been. I don't know what the joke was or why Spielberg thought it was funny.

I remember going to this thing alone when I was sixteen, sitting in the theater trying to see the humor in it. It LOOKED like a comedy. It was like Donald Trump. Someone pointed out that he speaks with the cadence of a stand-up comedian but he says nothing funny or even clever.

It was before I developed a dislike for Steven Spielberg. I recognized Toshiro Mifune. I took some of it to be a rip off of The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming! but cold war paranoia doesn't translate into World War Two which was a real thing. There was some anti-Black racism, although the tank crew was integrated. Other than the submarine crew, the cast was almost all white. There were no Japanese-Americans and the only Zoot Suiter in it was Anglo. 

The movie has been restored for some reason. I watched it for the first time in over forty years on a movie channel that appeared on my Roku without my knowledge or consent. 

With Elisha Cook, Tim Matheson, Treat Williams, Warren Oates, Robert Stack, John Candy, Christopher Lee and the young fellow from I Wanna Hold Your Hand. I don't know who else. I only listed the men. It was almost all male and I didn't recognize the women so maybe I'm as sexist as Spielberg.

I read about it after watching it. One person thought that the movie works better now than it did in 1979 in part because people are more impressed by the non CGI effects. Another said that Spielberg's friends smiled and nodded when he told them he was making the movie, but they were secretly horrified because he wasn't funny.