Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ★★★ 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. 138m/B VHS, DVD . 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; D: Mervyn LeRoy; W: Dalton Trumbo; C: Robert L. Surtees, Harold Rosson; M: Herbert Stothart.