Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 World War II drama film depicting the Doolittle Raid, adapted from Captain Ted W. Lawson’s memoir.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
academyAwardYear 1945
authorOfSourceWork Ted W. Lawson
award Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
basedOn Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (memoir)
memoir by Ted W. Lawson
cinematographyBy Harold Rosson
Robert Surtees
countryOfOrigin United States
depictsEvent Doolittle Raid
director Mervyn LeRoy
distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
distributorRegion North America
editedBy Frank Sullivan
filmingLocation California
format black-and-white film
genre World War II film
drama film
war film
historicalContext American wartime propaganda cinema
language English
musicBy Herbert Stothart
narrativePerspective first-person account of Ted W. Lawson
nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
portraysAircraft B-25 Mitchell bomber
portraysCharacter James H. Doolittle
Ted W. Lawson
portraysMilitaryBranch United States Army Air Forces
producer Sam Zimbalist
productionCompany Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
publicationYearOfSourceWork 1943
releaseDate November 15, 1944
releaseYear 1944
runtime 138 minutes
screenwriter Dalton Trumbo
setDuring World War II
setting Japan
Pacific Ocean
United States
stars Phyllis Thaxter
Robert Mitchum
Robert Walker
Spencer Tracy
Van Johnson
title Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

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Dalton Trumbo wroteScreenplayFor Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Herbert Stothart notableWork Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944 film score)
linked to: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Van Johnson notableWork Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Don DeFore appearedIn Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Sam Zimbalist produced Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
William Ferrari notableWork Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Ted W. Lawson notableWork Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Ted W. Lawson wrote Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Malcolm Brown notableWork Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Malcolm Brown workedOn Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Malcolm Brown artDirectionFor Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Phyllis Thaxter notableWork Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo title Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
A. Arnold Gillespie notableWork Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Louis Jean Heydt notableWork Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Charles Van Dell Johnson notableWork Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo