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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569797116
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2007
Running Time: 139 minutes
Sales Rank: 4561
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1944-11
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Description:
First B-25's in training for bombing mission over Japan, under General Jimmy Doolittle's command.
Amazon.com:
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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Rating:  - A Veteran's Day tribute to a great WWII actioner
It seems relevant and important to say something about my favorite World War II film -- "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" -- on Veteran's Day. While I did not serve in the military, my dad fought in WW2 in the Pacific at Tarawa, one of the Marines' most heralded battles in history. Dad told me 6,000 men were killed in the four-day shootout for Tarawa, a little island in the Pacific we wanted for an air strip. Five thousand of those deaths, he told me, were Japanese. We buried the Americans in grave and ... Read More
Rating: - A Classic World War II Film of a great Hero
You cannot get better than Spencer Tracy as James Doolittle who lead the raid against Japan when America was in desperate straights for a shot back at the Empire of Japan.Tracy is so much better than Alec Baldwin who plays Doolittle with a smarminess. The greater onscreen time though goes to Van Johnson who is a B-25 pilot actually going on the raid.Launching from the Hornet, the raid was a smashing psychological attack against Japan.Shamed by their incompetence, Japanese Generals and ... Read More
Rating:  - Very accurate rendering of Lawson's book
This movie on DVD follows remarkably well Ted Lawson's story as told in his book of the same title.For us older folks who remember World War II, there are excellent scenes of the twin engine B-25 in action.In real life Ted Lawson was injured far worse than shown in the movie, but Van Johnson captured the spirit of the man.The love scenes seem a little long for those who wanted to see more action with the airplanes and their crews.Robert Mitchum, who later became a big movie star, plays a rather ... Read More
Rating: - Stirring Tale of True-Life Heroes
There's no question the film is framed in a very straightforward, literal way, and that the characters are somewhat hokey All-American stereotypes.
But I think to dismiss the film as simplistic is mistaken.Soon-to-be-Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo includes some deft concepts of collective responsibility and moral tension, including not just the passage on civilian casualties, but also the exchange where the soldiers agree that that they don't hate the Japanese people.
I ... Read More
Rating:  - Good Wartime Movie
Most war movies actually made during WW2, are a bit too soppy and unrealistic for my liking, but this movie was quite good and it portrayed a major event during WW2 in the Pacific. Spencer Tracy did a good job, as Jimmy Doolittle and Van Johnson wasn't bad either. I don't know how Van Johnson's wife in the movie, got pregant when they where sleeping in seperate bed's?? I liked the fact that the aircraft, ships etc in the movie looked authentic. There is nothing worse in a war movie then seeing a Mustang or ... Read More
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