Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
November 15, 1944Release Date
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
November 15, 1944Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Van Johnson
Ted Lawson
Robert Walker
David Thatcher
Spencer Tracy
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle
Tim Murdock
Dean Davenport
Don DeFore
Charles McClure
Herbert Gunn
Bob Clever
Phyllis Thaxter
Ellen Lawson
Stephen McNally
'Doc' White
John R. Reilly
'Shorty' Manch
Robert Mitchum
Bob Gray
Scott McKay
Davey Jones
Donald Curtis
Lieut. Randall
Louis Jean Heydt
Lieut. Miller
William Phillips
Don Smith
Robert Considine
Writer
Douglas Cowan
'Brick' Holstrom
Paul Langton
Captain 'Ski' York
Leon Ames
Lieut. Jurika
Bill Williams
Bud Felton
Robert Bice
'Jig' White
Hsin Kung
Dr. Chung
Benson Fong
Young Dr. Chung
Ching Wah Lee
Guerilla Charlie
Alan Napier
Mr. Parker
Ann Shoemaker
Mrs. Parker
Dorothy Morris
Jane
Jacqueline White
Emmy York
Selena Royle
Mrs. Reynolds
Eve Whitney
Girl in Officers' Club (uncredited)
Jack McClendon
Dick Joyce (uncredited)
Morris Ankrum
Adm. William F. Halsey - Captain of the 'Hornet' (uncredited)
Johnny Duncan
Jitterbugger (uncredited)
Charles Gordon
Sgt. Williams (uncredited)
John Kellogg
C-47 Transport Pilot (uncredited)
Peggy Maley
Girl in Officers' Club (uncredited)
Moroni Olsen
General (uncredited)
Arthur Space
Deck Officer (uncredited)
John James
Lt. Smith's Crewman (uncredited)
Blake Edwards
Lt. Smith's Crewman (uncredited)
Wally Cassell
Sailor (uncredited)
Hazel Brooks
Girl in Officers' Club (uncredited)
Steve Brodie
MP Corporal (uncredited)
Carlyle Blackwell Jr.
Pilot Singer (uncredited)
Noreen Nash
Girl in Officers' Club (uncredited)
John Dehner
Lieutenant Commander (uncredited)
Spencer Chan
Townsman (uncredited)
Karin Booth
Girl in Officers' Club (uncredited)
Elaine Shepard
Girl in Officers' Club (uncredited)
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Details.
Release DateNovember 15, 1944
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 18m
Content RatingNR
Budget$2,900,000
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Wiki.
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 attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid was planned, led by, and named after United States Army Air Forces Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, who was promoted two ranks, to Brigadier General, the day after the raid.
Sam Zimbalist was the film's producer and Mervyn LeRoy directed. The picture stars Van Johnson as Lawson; Phyllis Thaxter as his wife, Ellen; Robert Walker as Corporal David Thatcher; Robert Mitchum as Lieutenant Bob Gray; and Spencer Tracy as Lieutenant Colonel—and soon General— Jimmy Doolittle.
Tracy's appearance in the film is more in the nature of a guest star; he receives special billing rather than his usual top billing and has considerably less screen time than star Van Johnson.
In the book, Lawson gives an eyewitness account of the intensive training, the mission, and the aftermath as experienced by his crew and by others who flew the mission on April 18, 1942. Lawson piloted "The Ruptured Duck", the seventh of 16 B-25s to take off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. The film depicted the raid accurately and used actual wartime footage of the bombers.