Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
- Directed by
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Genre
- drama film, war film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 18m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 67 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A pilot recounts his role in the Doolittle Raid, the first American air strike on Japan after Pearl Harbor. The film shows the training for the mission, the bombing run, and the difficult aftermath for his crew.
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What happens
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 American war film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo is based on the 1943 book of the same name by Captain Ted W. Lawson. Lawson was a pilot on the historic Doolittle Raid, America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan, four months after the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid was planned, led by, and named after United States Army Air Forces Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, who was promoted two ranks, to brigadier general, the day after the raid. Sam Zimbalist was the film's producer and Mervyn LeRoy directed. The picture stars Van Johnson as Lawson; Phyllis Thaxter as his wife, Ellen; Robert Walker as Corporal David Thatcher; Robert Mitchum as Lieutenant Bob Gray; and Spencer Tracy as Lieutenant Colonel—and soon General—Jimmy Doolittle. Tracy's appearance in the film is more in the nature of a guest star; he receives special billing rather than his usual top billing and has considerably less screen time than star Van Johnson. In the book, Lawson gives an eyewitness account of the intensive training, the mission, and the aftermath as experienced by his crew and by others who flew the mission on April 18, 1942. Lawson piloted the Ruptured Duck, the seventh of 16 B-25s to take off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. The film depicts the raid accurately and uses actual wartime footage of the bombers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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