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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.
This is the true story of Jimmy Doolittle's raid over Tokyo in April of 1942, which lead directly to the battle of Midway, the turning point of the war in the Pacific. It is told through the eyes of pilot Ted Lawson and his crew, and was based on his real life account of his experiences.
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- Drama, History, War
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1944-11
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
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. Recently-married Lt. Ted Lawson is among the volunteers placed under the command of Lt.Col. James Doolittle.
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. Many critics have credited the film with playing a major role in bringing ...
- Mervyn Leroy
- Van Johnson
The four movies (the first three considered "fictionalized") are Destination Tokyo; The Purple Heart; Bombardier and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, the latter being the most accurate and least fictionalized of the four.
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.
