DVD
Thirty seconds over Tokyo
Call Number
- DVD ACTION (CEN)
Languages
In English, with optional English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.
Performers
Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Murdock, Scott McKay, Gordon McDonald, Don Defore, Robert Mitchum, John R. Reilly, Horace McNally, Spencer Tracy.
Publication Information
[Burbank, CA] : Turner Entertainment Co. : Warner Bros. Entertainment, [2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (139 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
Summary
Coaxing a hulking Mitchell B-25 into the sky from a short, 500-foot carrier runway on a bouncing sea is dangerous. Tougher still is doing it with a full bombload. But for Lt. Col. James Doolittle and the crewmen of 16 B-25s, that's just the start of the mission.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the book and Collier's story by Captain Ted W. Lawson and Robert Considine.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1944.
Special features: Academy Award-nominated "Pete Smith specialty" short "Movie pests" ; vintage "Passing parade" short "A lady fights back" ; classic cartoon "Bear raid warden" ; theatrical trailer.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American > Drama.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Tokyo > Drama.
- Mitchell (Bomber) > Drama.
- Aircraft carriers > Japan > Drama
- Bombing, Aerial > Japan > Drama.
- Tokyo (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1942 > Drama.
- Japan > Drama.
- Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 > Drama.
- Lawson, Ted W., 1917-1992 > Drama.