In February 1942, just two months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the United States Army Air Forces plan to retaliate by bombing Tokyo and four other Japanese cities—taking advantage of the fact that US aircraft carriers can approach near enough to the Japanese mainland to make such an attack feasible.
Lt.Col. James Doolittle (Spencer Tracy), the leader of the mission, assembles a volunteer force of aircrews, who begin their top-secret training by learning a new technique to make their North American B-25 Mitchell medium bombers airborne in the short distance of 500 feet or less, to simulate taking off from the deck of an aircraft carrier.
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Produced by Sam Zimbalist
Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo
Based on Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted W. Lawson and Robert Considine
Starring Van Johnson
Robert Walker
Spencer Tracy
Music by Herbert Stothart
Cinematography Robert Surtees, ASC
Harold Rosson, ASC
Edited by Frank Sullivan
Production
company
Loew's Inc.
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
November 15, 1944
Running time
138 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $2.9 million[1]
Box office $6.2 million[1][2]
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