Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 18 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 5, 2007
  • Originally Released: 1944
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1944 - Best Sound Effects: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1944 - Best Special Effects: Not Applicable & Warren Newcombe

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 722
Rating: B -- It's winsome because of its sincerity, painting a sympathetic portrait of the men who carried out this dangerous mission. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Feb 4, 2006
Rating: B+ -- Mervyn LeRoy's fact-based WWII action-drama was extremely popular due to subject matter, star power (Spencer Tracy), Oscar-winning effects, and intelligent script by Dalton Trumbo, later blacklisted and one of the Hollywood Ten. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jun 29, 2005
Rating: 4/5 -- After an overly mushy first half, the movie redeems itself with a second act that is decidedly dark and dreary and an extended air combat sequence that's still amazing nearly 70 years later. Full Review
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
May 9, 2011
Rating: 3/5 -- wonderful WWII propaganda drama with sincere performances by the cast. Special effects bombing sequence of Tokyo isn't bad either.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Jan 28, 2006

Product Description:

Shortly after the bombing on Pearl Harbor, the American military began preparation for a retaliatory attack. The story of that mission is presented in THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO, based on the memoirs of Captain Ted Lawson, who flew one of the 16 twin-engine bombers over Tokyo. Spencer Tracy plays Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, the leader of the mission, while VAN JOHNSON plays the leading role of Captain Ted Lawson, whose bomber also carries star Robert Mitchum. A variety of factors makes the mission exceptionally dangerous: Twin-engine bombers had never taken off from an aircraft carrier previously; the bombers needed to fly in low, pretending to be Japanese aircraft; and the oversize bombers couldn't return to the aircraft carrier, so the intended landing site was behind enemy lines in China. With its almost documentary-style approach, THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO is perhaps the finest film about World War II made during the war itself.

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  • UPC: 012569797116
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