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Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. According to the documentary Going Hollywood: The War Years, for this movie, the MGM studio recreated the section of an air craft carrier flat top on a sound stage large enough to fit four genuine B25 bomber planes whilst a whole sixty foot miniature was also built, placed in the studio tank doubling as the ocean.
Based on the memoirs of Captain Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a documentary style re-creation of the first American strike on Japan in retaliation for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Movie. 1944. 2 HOURS 18 MINS. War. After staging a successful attack on Tokyo, a captain and his crew must evade capture and make it back home. Movie. Trailer. 7.2.
Extract of a review from 1944. Running time: 138 MIN. With: Van Johnson Robert Walker Phyllis Thaxter Tim Murdock Robert Mitchum Spencer Tracy. Walter T. Solley says: January 28, 2018 at 10:27 pm ...
In this true story of courage and ingenuity featuring an all-star cast, American pilots under Doolittle's (Academy Award winner Spencer Tracy) command make the seemingly impossible one-way flight by launching fully loaded bombers for the first time ever from the deck of an aircraft carrier and landing in China. The cost in pilots and aircraft for the Americans may be staggering, but the raid ...
After the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the string of defeats that followed for the United States, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, devises a plan for a daring raid to strike at the heart of Japan. A squadron of American planes flies across the Pacific Ocean to deliver a deadly payload during Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 American World War II drama movie directed by Mervyn LeRoy and was based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Ted W. Lawson. It stars Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Mitchum, Stephen McNally, Phyllis Thaxter, Robert Walker, Leon Amos, Benson Fong and was distributed by Metro ...
