Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944)
3.8 of 5 from 48 ratings
2h 18min
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- Synopsis:
Coaxing a hulking Mitchell B-25 into the sky from a short, 500-foot carrier runway on a bouncing sea is dangerous. Tougher still is doing it with a full bombload. But for Lt Col. James Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) and the crewmen of 16 B-25's, that's just the start of the mission. Special Effects recreate the squadron's low-altitude, "hedge-hopping" sweep over Japan in this suspenseful saga of the attack that bolstered U.S. morale during the bleak early days of the Pacific war. The intensive training, the daring bombing run, the subsequent forced landings in China and the perilous trek to safety: all the valiant touchstones of the true-life raid are captured in a beloved classic whose other stars include Van Johnson, Robert Walker and Robert Mitchum. - Actors:
- Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock, Don Defore, Herbert Gunn, Phyllis Thaxter, Stephen McNally, John R. Reilly, Robert Mitchum, Scott McKay, Donald Curtis, Louis Jean Heydt, William 'Bill' Phillips, Douglas Cowan, Paul Langton, Leon Ames, Bill Williams, Robert Bice, Hsin Kung
- Directors:
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Writers:
- Dalton Trumbo, Ted W. Lawson
- Others:
- Robert Surtees, A. Arnold Gillespie, Douglas Shearer, Harold Rosson, Warren Newcombe, Donald Jahraus
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
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