Title: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Runtime: 138 Min
Year: 1944
Genres: Drama - History - War
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Mitchum, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock, Don DeFore, Herbert Gunn, Phyllis Thaxter, Stephen McNally, John R. Reilly, Scott McKay, Donald Curtis, Louis Jean Heydt, William 'Bill' Phillips, Douglas Cowan, Paul Langton, Leon Ames, Bill Williams
Directed By: Mervyn LeRoy
PLOT
The amazingly detailed true story of "The Doolittle Raid" based on the novel of the same name. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, America needed a victory - badly. To that end, Colonel Jimmy Dolittle, a former air racer and stunt pilot, devises a plan for a daring raid on the heart of Japan itself. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to do something no one ever dreamed possible - launch 16 fully load bombers from an aircraft carrier! Remarkable in its accuracy, this movie even uses film footage from the actual raid.
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English - Mandarin
Writers: Dalton Trumbo (screenplay) Ted W. Lawson (book) (as Captain Ted W. Lawson) and Robert Considine (book)
Parental Advisory Certification: USA:Approved (PCA #10248) / USA:Passed (National Board of Review) / Canada:PG (video rating) / Australia:PG / Netherlands:14 (original rating) (1949) / USA:TV-PG (TV rating) / Finland:S / Spain:T / Sweden:15
Awards:
1945- Academy Awards, USA (Oscar)
-Best Effects, Special Effects A. Arnold Gillespie (photographic), Donald Jahraus (photographic), Warren Newcombe (photographic) and Douglas Shearer (sound) (WON)
-Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Robert Surtees and Harold Rosson (NOMINATED)
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