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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.
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
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.
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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
United States. Screenplay Information. Based on the book Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted W. Lawson (London, 1943) and the article by Lawson and Robert Considine (publication undetermined).
- 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.
Oscar-winning legend Spencer Tracy ("Adam's Rib," "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde"), Emmy-winner Van Johnson ("Battleground"), Oscar-nominee Robert Mitchum ("Cape Fe...
