While Clark Kent is in wartime Japan, Superman becomes a saboteur.While Clark Kent is in wartime Japan, Superman becomes a saboteur.While Clark Kent is in wartime Japan, Superman becomes a saboteur.
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Joan Alexander
- Lois Lane
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Jackson Beck
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Jack Mercer
- Japanese Guard
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
Lee Royce
- Clark Kent
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
- Directors
- Dan Gordon
- Willard Bowsky(uncredited)
- Dave Fleischer(earlier cartoon clips) (uncredited)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- Quotes
[last lines]
American Reporter: How about Clark Kent? Did he get away?
Lois Lane: No, no, he's still over there. But don't worry. Superman promised to look after him.
- ConnectionsFeatured in ToonHeads: A ToonHeads Special: The Wartime Cartoons (2001)
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Clark and Lois held in Japan in Noir-style wartime cartoon
"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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- BrianDanaCamp
- Dec 18, 2003
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Superman: El último momento
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- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime8 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Superman: Eleventh Hour (1942) officially released in Canada in English?
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