Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Nov 15, 1944

2h 18m

★ 6.6

Heart-Warming Romance . . . Ripped from the Heart!

Overview

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.

Genres

War

Drama

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Ted Lawson

Van Johnson

David Thatcher

Robert Walker

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle

Spencer Tracy

Dean Davenport

Tim Murdock

Charles McClure

Don DeFore

Bob Clever

Herbert Gunn

Ellen Lawson

Phyllis Thaxter

'Doc' White

Stephen McNally

'Shorty' Manch

John R. Reilly

Bob Gray

Robert Mitchum

Davey Jones

Scott McKay

Lieut. Randall

Donald Curtis

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

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