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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. 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 ...
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- Sam Zimbalist
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
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.
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During World War II, Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) leads the U.S. Air Force in a bombing mission over Japan. Doolittle and his men stage a successful attack on Tokyo, but most pilots ...
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Oscar-winning legend Spencer Tracy ("Adam's Rib," "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde"), Emmy-winner Van Johnson ("Battleground"), Oscar-nominee Robert Mitchum ("Cape Fe...
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Twenty Four B-25's Opening scenes with Col. Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) and the B-25 piloted by Ted Lawson (who wrote the book, played by Van Johnson), crewmen Tim Murdock, Don DeFore, Gordon McDonald and Robert Walker, from Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, 1944.
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.
