Japoteurs
- Studio
- Famous Studios
- Distributor
- Paramount Studios
Synopsis
The world's largest bomber (at that time) has been completed and is ready for a test flight. Lois and Clark are given a tour. Some evil Japanese spies sneak aboard and steal it. It's up to Superman to return it safely and save Lois who's trapped inside.
Characters
Clark Kent/Superman, Lois Lane, Military Officer, Japanese Saboteurs
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Seymour Kneitel
Producing
- Producer
- Dan Gordon, Seymour Kneitel, Izzy Sparber
- Associate Producer
- Sam Buchwald
Writing
- Writer
- Bill Turner, Carl Meyer
- Superman Created By
- Jerome Siegel, Joe Shuster
Voices
- Voice
- Clayton "Bud" Collyer (Superman/Clark Kent), Joan Alexander (Lois Lane), Jack Mercer (Military Officer, Japoteur Leader), Julian Noa (Narrator)
Music
- Music
- Sammy Timberg
- Uncredited Additional Music
- Winston Sharples
Animation
- Animator
- Myron Waldman, Nick Tafuri
Music Department
- Music Arrangement
- Sammy Timberg
Production notes
This cartoon is not currently shown on American television because of characters, scenes or situations that portray potentially offensive, negative or otherwise currently socially or politically unacceptable content which may be perceived as fostering potentially negative stereotypes of various ethnic groups or promoting now socially undesirable behavior.
Pictures
Reviews
Racist propaganda garbage
This cartoon is probably the worst among the Fleisher films. Found about it's existent through YouTube. Plenty of bigoted losers will tell you otherwise.
Japoteurs
All of the Superman cartoons are excellent with only one or two exceptions. This is one of the greats. Unfortunately, politically correct folk can't bear to see members of the WW2 Axis powers being portrayted as the evil scum they were. This has led to quite a few reviewers hysterically trashing the Superman WW2 shorts. Don't trust them. Watch these jewels for yourself and decide.
Japoteurs
I've given Japoteurs the lowest rating just to be nasty. Technically this "classic" is on a par with Paramount's other Superman cartoons; the animation and soundtrack are excellent, if a bit less ambitious than the Fleischer shorts which preceded it in the series. But this notorious cartoon is right up there with Coal Black an de Sebben Dwarfs and Der Fuhrer's Face for sheer racism and hysterical propaganda. It's also hysterically funny, in the most "incorrect" possible way, and highly recommended to the squeamish.