Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Movie Review 1944

Dated but still interesting classic wartime flagwaver details the conception and execution of the first bombing raids on Tokyo by Lt. Col. James Doolittle and his men. Look for Blake Edwards, as well as Steve Brodie in his first screen appearance. Based on a true story.

Distribution

Time-Life Video and Television, 1450 Palmyra Ave., Richmond, VA 23227-4420, Phone: (804)266-6330, Toll-free: 800-950-7887, Fax: (757)427-7905

Available on VHS
Running time 138 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

True Stories, Japan, Top Grossing Films of 1944, World War II, Patriotism & Paranoia, Boom!, Tokyo

Screenplay

Dalton Trumbo

Cast

Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Robert Mitchum, Phyllis Thaxter, Scott McKay, Stephen McNally, Louis Jean Heydt, Leon Ames, Paul Langton, Don DeFore, Tim Murdock, Alan Napier, Dorothy Morris, Jacqueline White, Selena Royle, Bill Phillips, Donald Curtis, Gordon McDonald, John R. Reilly, Douglas Cowan, Ann Shoemaker, Steve Brodie

Cinematography

Robert L. Surtees, Harold Rosson

Director

Mervyn LeRoy

Music

Herbert Stothart

Producer

Sam Zimbalist, MGM, Inc. Loew's