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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.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock, Don DeFore. In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
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- Drama, History, War
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1944-11
Based on a true World War II story of several B25 pilots and their crews who volunteer for a secret mission--the first bombing raid on mainland Japan, ingeniously and boldly launched from an aircraft carrier.
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, American war film, released in 1944, that depicted the U.S. air raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor (1941). Written by Dalton Trumbo, the movie was based on the 1943 memoir by Capt. Ted W. Lawson, a pilot involved in the mission.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Why THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO is Essential Like many Hollywood films about World War II made between 1942 and 1944, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo was based on an actual wartime campaign, Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle's 1942 bombing raid on Japan; it gave audiences back home a sense of how the war was going.
- Mervyn Leroy
- Van Johnson
THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO, screen play by Dalton Trumbo; based on the book by Capt. Ted W. Lawson and Robert Considine; directed by Mervyn LeRoy; produced by Sam Zimbalist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Apr 27, 2021 · ‘Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo‘ details the Doolittle-raid on Japan in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attacks and was actually one of four movies made by Hollywood during the 1940s relating to the U.S. military’s Dolittle Raid on Tokyo during WWII.
