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US Mall 1 - Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: Mgm Entertainment
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock, Don DeFore
Directed By: Mervyn LeRoy
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301977289
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 6301977289
Label: Mgm Entertainment
Manufacturer: Mgm Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Mgm Entertainment
Release Date: 1991-01-23
Running Time: 138
Studio: Mgm Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1944-11
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Summary: The Crew of the Ruptured Duck
Comment: Ted Lawson (Van Johnson) is a flyer. He is an ordinary man who excells at his job; he has a wife who is expecting a baby. But it is war, so his circumstances are more intense than they might be in a different time. He is asked to consider a highly secretive project under the command of Lieutenant Doolittle (Spencer Tracy). He accepts and eagerly trains for a mysterious final command.
The project is the now-famous Doolittle raid that bombed Japan following the Pearl Harbor attack. It has been shown in many movies, but this one is all the more poinent because it was filmed during the war. Consequently, the sentiments are still strongly in favor of the Americans, but there is a certain charm about that. This movie is a time capsule of an era as much as it is an entertainment piece.
If you're a fan of classic Hollywood, you will not be disappointed by the performances in this movie. Johnson is a standout leading man. He can play romantic scenes well and he is a great leader in the wartime scenes. He was the everyman, someone that each audience member could relate to. He plays alongside Tracy whose few scenes are memorable and Robert Walker and Robert Mitchum among others.
Funnily enough, there are no scene selections on this DVD. You can still skip forward, but there is no place in the menu to scroll through scenes. There are some cool extra features though, like a vintage documentary short about the renovation of the Normandy.
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Summary: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Comment: Good old movie, good old stars. Movie is based on facts. I enjoyed it. Probably what the country needed at the time but characters are to black and white and not well developed.
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Summary: a look at history
Comment: a good movie about w.w.II. if you like warbirds or stories of w.w.II and the efforts of people to servive this is a movie. it also shows a personal side of the main pilot , his crew and the men around him.
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Summary: A Veteran's Day tribute to a great WWII actioner
Comment: 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 dug trenches for the enemy dead, he said.
None of this says anything about this great film, which relates a time much earlier in the war and reconstructs our first mainland attack on Japan. What makes this film great is its authenticity, being filmed while the war was taking place, and its importance as a gift to the shattered American psyche. Knowing war was imminent after the Nazis overwhlemed Europe beginning in 1939, Americans still did not want to enter the war. After Pearl Harbor -- the equivalent of this generation's 9/11 -- there was no question we would go to war.
Spencer Tracy is magnificent, as always, playing Gen. Doolittle, the leader of the raid. What has always been most interesting for me on repeated viewing of this film is the training the pilots went through in order to lift a B-25 from the deck of a World War II-era carrier. I've seen a B-25 up close; they don't look all that big, truth to tell. Still, it had to be a trial to do this in 1942 -- get one airborne from the relatively short running distance of a carrier deck.
The aftermath of the attack, when the pilots crash their planes in the Pacific off China, and the military personnel's recovery from that Japanese-dominated country, has also always fascinated me. For these and many other reasons, this film is essential viewing for anyone that likes war films. I would be remiss if I did not admit my own private admission about "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo": I've always enjoyed Ted Turner's colorized version he ran on TNT and Turner Classic Movies far more than the original black and white.
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Summary: A Classic World War II Film of a great Hero
Comment: 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 Admirals had to play a more defensive game with this unforseen boldness by American pilots. In this film, Van Johnson crash lands in China, loses a leg and makes it back home.
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Summary: The Crew of the Ruptured Duck
Comment: Ted Lawson (Van Johnson) is a flyer. He is an ordinary man who excells at his job; he has a wife who is expecting a baby. But it is war, so his circumstances are more intense than they might be in a different time. He is asked to consider a highly secretive project under the command of Lieutenant Doolittle (Spencer Tracy). He accepts and eagerly trains for a mysterious final command.
The project is the now-famous Doolittle raid that bombed Japan following the Pearl Harbor attack. It has been shown in many movies, but this one is all the more poinent because it was filmed during the war. Consequently, the sentiments are still strongly in favor of the Americans, but there is a certain charm about that. This movie is a time capsule of an era as much as it is an entertainment piece.
If you're a fan of classic Hollywood, you will not be disappointed by the performances in this movie. Johnson is a standout leading man. He can play romantic scenes well and he is a great leader in the wartime scenes. He was the everyman, someone that each audience member could relate to. He plays alongside Tracy whose few scenes are memorable and Robert Walker and Robert Mitchum among others.
Funnily enough, there are no scene selections on this DVD. You can still skip forward, but there is no place in the menu to scroll through scenes. There are some cool extra features though, like a vintage documentary short about the renovation of the Normandy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Comment: Good old movie, good old stars. Movie is based on facts. I enjoyed it. Probably what the country needed at the time but characters are to black and white and not well developed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: a look at history
Comment: a good movie about w.w.II. if you like warbirds or stories of w.w.II and the efforts of people to servive this is a movie. it also shows a personal side of the main pilot , his crew and the men around him.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Veteran's Day tribute to a great WWII actioner
Comment: 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 dug trenches for the enemy dead, he said.
None of this says anything about this great film, which relates a time much earlier in the war and reconstructs our first mainland attack on Japan. What makes this film great is its authenticity, being filmed while the war was taking place, and its importance as a gift to the shattered American psyche. Knowing war was imminent after the Nazis overwhlemed Europe beginning in 1939, Americans still did not want to enter the war. After Pearl Harbor -- the equivalent of this generation's 9/11 -- there was no question we would go to war.
Spencer Tracy is magnificent, as always, playing Gen. Doolittle, the leader of the raid. What has always been most interesting for me on repeated viewing of this film is the training the pilots went through in order to lift a B-25 from the deck of a World War II-era carrier. I've seen a B-25 up close; they don't look all that big, truth to tell. Still, it had to be a trial to do this in 1942 -- get one airborne from the relatively short running distance of a carrier deck.
The aftermath of the attack, when the pilots crash their planes in the Pacific off China, and the military personnel's recovery from that Japanese-dominated country, has also always fascinated me. For these and many other reasons, this film is essential viewing for anyone that likes war films. I would be remiss if I did not admit my own private admission about "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo": I've always enjoyed Ted Turner's colorized version he ran on TNT and Turner Classic Movies far more than the original black and white.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Classic World War II Film of a great Hero
Comment: 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 Admirals had to play a more defensive game with this unforseen boldness by American pilots. In this film, Van Johnson crash lands in China, loses a leg and makes it back home.
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