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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569797116
Feature: First B-25's in training for bombing mission over Japan, under General Jimmy Doolittle's command.Running Time: 138 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG-13 Age: 012569797116 UPC: 012569797116 Manufacturer No: 79711
Format: Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 79711
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2007
Running Time: 138 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1944-11
Features:- First B-25's in training for bombing mission over Japan, under General Jimmy Doolittle's command.Running Time: 138 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG-13 Age: 012569797116 UPC: 012569797116 Manufacturer No: 79711
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First B-25's in training for bombing mission over Japan under General Jimmy Doolittle's command.Running Time: 138 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG - 13 UPC: 012569797116 Manufacturer No: 79711
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There is no more ringing title among World War II movies than Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, and the mission it celebrates was unquestionably historic: a 400-mile bombing raid to carry the war to Japan itself mere months after that nation's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Yet the film is less memorable than many WWII pictures with less exalted factual basis. At the time, critic James Agee eloquently defined both its virtues and limitations as "a big-studio, big-scale film, free of artistic pretension ... transformed by its not very imaginative but very dogged sincerity into something forceful, simple, and thoroughly sympathetic in spite of all its big-studio, big-scale habits." That remains true today, but perhaps the movie--and its unimpeachably noble, admirably life-sized characters--wouldn't seem so stuck in the amber of a bygone era if Mervyn LeRoy and company had pumped a little "artistic pretension" into it.
Spencer Tracy--as James H. Doolittle, architect of the raid--rates the most towering screen credit, and he's superb. But his role's an extended cameo; the emotional core of the film is B-25 pilot Ted Lawson (Van Johnson) and his wife, Ellen (the glowing Phyllis Thaxter). Lawson's bestselling memoir (with Bob Considine) of his training for the secret mission, his group's launching from the aircraft carrier Hornet, and his crash landing and protracted ordeal in China--where he lost a leg--has been faithfully served. The film is long on homely detail and all-American decency (including a remarkably outspoken regret over the unavoidability of civilian casualties) but achieves its greatest impact in the raid itself. That sequence, in addition to boasting Oscar-winning special effects, is mostly shot in riveting silence. --Richard T. Jameson
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A true story is always more fun to watch. This is one of the best.
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The DVD transfer of this 1944 BW release is very good to excellent.
This is the depiction of America's first response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Filmed during the war in 1943, 'Thirty Seconds over Tokyo' gives the viewer not only the action sequences one expects from the raid on Japan but the stories of the men that flew the mission. The movie is based on the book by the film's protagonist, Ted Lawson (Van Johnson). Director Mervyn LeRoy and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo ... Read More
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
This a great movie based on a book written by Ted Dawson who participated in the famous Doolittle raid over Tokyo in World War II. Van Johnson plays Dawson and Jimmy Doolittle is enacted by Spencer Tracy. Robert Mitchum has a minor role as Dawson's friend in what may have been one of his first featured roles.
The movie follows Dawson and the crew of the "Ruptured Duck" from volunteering for a secret mission, through the training required for an ... Read More
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What a great old style black and white war yarn, black and white film black and white moral treatment and black and white good versus evil all the way down the line. Yes it's based on a real event, and a great morale builder for americans it was, and a thank goodness America is finally in the war from the rest of us. Spencer Tracy at his curt best no mish mash of a script here. It's long, for a war movie of that era, and seems to want to heap praise on the brave chineese, they deserved it considering ... Read More
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Great Classic WWII movie, True story.
Good service. DVD arrived on time and in good condition.
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