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''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' is a 1944 war film directed by Mervyn [=LeRoy=], starring Creator/SpencerTracy, Creator/VanJohnson, and Creator/RobertWalker. It tells the RealLife story of the April 1942 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]] against Japan.
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''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' is a 1944 war American UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film directed by Mervyn [=LeRoy=], Creator/MervynLeRoy, starring Creator/SpencerTracy, Creator/VanJohnson, and Creator/RobertWalker. It tells the RealLife story of the April 1942 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]] against Japan.
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''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' is a 1944 war film directed by Mervyn [=LeRoy=], starring Creator/SpencerTracy, Van Johnson, and Creator/RobertWalker. It tells the RealLife story of the April 1942 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]] against Japan.
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''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' is a 1944 war film directed by Mervyn [=LeRoy=], starring Creator/SpencerTracy, Van Johnson, Creator/VanJohnson, and Creator/RobertWalker. It tells the RealLife story of the April 1942 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]] against Japan.
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* NoseArt: Lawson's plane ("ship"), the ''Ruptured Duck'', has a drawing of...[[http://www.fightingcolors.com/b25ruptduck.jpeg Donald Duck with crutches]].
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* NoseArt: Lawson's plane ("ship"), the ''Ruptured Duck'', has a drawing of...[[http://www.fightingcolors.com/b25ruptduck.jpeg Donald Duck with crutches]].[[note]]Humorously enough, the story as told by the real Lawson is that the plane got its name when one of his crewmen played a prank on him one night during a storm, telling them that one of the towing vehicles on the ''Hornet'''s deck had broken loose and collided with the plane, severely damaging it. Apparently, the sight of Lawson [[ClusterFBomb cursing up a storm]] as he ran up to the deck was likened to Donald Duck in the midst of one of his famous tantrums.[[/note]]
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--> '''Lawson''': Raise the flaps.
--> '''Davenport''': (Looks) They weren't down.
--> '''Lawson''': Great. I wonder what ''else'' we forgot.
--> '''Davenport''': (Looks) They weren't down.
--> '''Lawson''': Great. I wonder what ''else'' we forgot.
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--> '''Lawson''': Raise the flaps.
-->flaps.\\
'''Davenport''': (Looks) They weren'tdown.
-->down.\\
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Played for a gag. Lawson is getting a bunch of cigarettes from the ship's store when the battlestations alarm sounds. He runs out, doubles back, picks up the cigarettes, picks up the money that he'd dropped on the counter, then puts the money back down.
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* TimeTitle: TheFilmOfTheBook of ''Literature/ThirtySecondsOverTokyo'' about the thirty or so seconds of time that B-25 bombers had, to bomb Tokyo in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Played for a gag. Lawson is getting a bunch of cigarettes from the ship's store when the battlestations alarm sounds. He runs out, doubles back, picks up the cigarettes, picks up the money that he'd dropped on the counter, then puts the money backdown.down.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Played for a gag. Lawson is getting a bunch of cigarettes from the ship's store when the battlestations alarm sounds. He runs out, doubles back, picks up the cigarettes, picks up the money that he'd dropped on the counter, then puts the money back
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''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' is a 1944 film directed by Mervyn [=LeRoy=], starring Creator/SpencerTracy, Van Johnson, and Creator/RobertWalker. It tells the RealLife story of the April 1942 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]] against Japan.
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''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' is a 1944 war film directed by Mervyn [=LeRoy=], starring Creator/SpencerTracy, Van Johnson, and Creator/RobertWalker. It tells the RealLife story of the April 1942 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]] against Japan.
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''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' is a 1944 film directed by Mervyn [=LeRoy=], starring Creator/SpencerTracy, Van Johnson, and Robert Walker. It tells the RealLife story of the April 1942 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]] against Japan.
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''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' is a 1944 film directed by Mervyn [=LeRoy=], starring Creator/SpencerTracy, Van Johnson, and Robert Walker.Creator/RobertWalker. It tells the RealLife story of the April 1942 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]] against Japan.
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* BellyScrapingFlight: On the approach to Japan, the B-25s hug the water and later the ground, coming close to hitting several tree lines in the process.
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* AirstrikeImpossible: The Doolittle Raid itself. All the B-25 Mitchells used in the raid were stripped of excess weight, and all the crews were trained to take off from a short distance mirroring the length of an aircraft carrier's deck. And thanks to the size of the planes, it would be a OneWayTrip without fighter cover.
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* MySecretPregnancy: InUniverse, as Ellen, nervous about seeing Tom again now that she's fat with pregnancy, asks her mother if holding a coat in her arms is sufficient to hide the baby bump. This is made more poignant by the fact that Ellen is aware that Tom lost a leg.
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* MySecretPregnancy: InUniverse, as Ellen, nervous about seeing Tom again now that she's fat with pregnancy, asks her mother if holding a coat in her arms is sufficient to hide the baby bump. This is made more poignant by the fact that Ellen is aware that Tom lost a leg.
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* HideYourPregnancy: InUniverse, as Ellen, nervous about seeing Tom again now that she's fat with pregnancy, asks her mother if holding a coat in her arms is sufficient to hide the baby bump. This is made more poignant by the fact that Ellen is aware that Tom lost a leg.
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* MySecretPregnancy: InUniverse, as Ellen, nervous about seeing Tom again now that she's fat with pregnancy, asks her mother if holding a coat in her arms is sufficient to hide the baby bump. This is made more poignant by the fact that Ellen is aware that Tom lost a leg.
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* FighterLaunchingSequence: The pilots take off from an aircraft carrier in B-25s, something that had never been done before. It led to this exchange between a pilot and co-pilot.
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* FighterLaunchingSequence: The pilots take off from an aircraft carrier in B-25s, something that had never been done before. It led to this exchange between a pilot and co-pilot.
--> '''Lawson''': Raise theflapsflaps.
--> '''Lawson''': Raise the
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--> '''Pilot''': Great. I wonder what ''else'' we forgot.
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--> '''Pilot''': '''Lawson''': Raise the flaps
-->'''Co-Pilot''': '''Davenport''': (Looks) They weren't down.
-->'''Pilot''': '''Lawson''': Great. I wonder what ''else'' we forgot.
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In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lt. Col Jimmy Doolittle (Tracy) assembles a group of volunteers to man B-25 bombers for a mysterious mission. Among those pilots is Lt. Ted Lawson (Johnson), who just got married a few months ago and whose wife Ellen has just told him she's pregnant. Johnson and his crew--co-pilot Dean Davenport, bombardier Robert Clever, navigator Charles [=McClure=], and tailgunner Cpl. Robert Thatcher (Walker)--start practicing unusually short 500-foot B-25 takeoffs. Lawson's crew and all the other crews get a clue when a naval officer shows up to coordinate their drills, but not until their planes are aboard the carrier USS ''Hornet'' and the men are out to sea are the men told their mission. They will be taking off from the ''Hornet'' and conducting the first Army Air Force bombing raid of Japan. And because they are taking off from so far out, it's a one-way trip. The men will have to land somewhere in China (if they make it that far), evade capture by Japanese forces in China, and make it to safety in the Nationalist Chinese capital of Chongqing.
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In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lt. Col Jimmy Doolittle (Tracy) assembles a group of volunteers to man B-25 bombers for a mysterious mission. Among those pilots is Lt. Ted Lawson (Johnson), who just got married a few months ago and whose wife Ellen has just told him she's pregnant. Johnson and his crew--co-pilot Dean Davenport, bombardier Robert Clever, navigator Charles [=McClure=], and tailgunner Cpl. Robert Thatcher (Walker)--start practicing unusually short 500-foot B-25 takeoffs. Lawson's crew and all the other crews get a clue when a naval officer shows up to coordinate their drills, but not until their planes are aboard the carrier USS ''Hornet'' and the men are out to sea are the men they told their mission. They will be taking off from the ''Hornet'' and conducting the first Army Air Force bombing raid of Japan. And because they are taking off from so far out, it's a one-way trip. The men will have to land somewhere in China (if they make it that far), evade capture by Japanese forces in China, and make it to safety in the Nationalist Chinese capital of Chongqing.
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* TheSquad: A five-man B-52 bomber crew. Lawson's the leader, the co-pilot likes to play poker, the bombardier is a home movie enthusiast, and Thatcher is a hick who proves unexpectedly tough under pressure.
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* TheSquad: A five-man B-52 B-25 bomber crew. Lawson's the leader, the co-pilot likes to play poker, the bombardier is a home movie enthusiast, and Thatcher is a hick who proves unexpectedly tough under pressure.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Off we go, into the wild blue yonder...]]
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* NoseArt: Lawson's plane ("ship"), the ''Ruptured Duck'', has a drawing of...a ruptured duck.
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* NoseArt: Lawson's plane ("ship"), the ''Ruptured Duck'', has a drawing of...a ruptured duck.[[http://www.fightingcolors.com/b25ruptduck.jpeg Donald Duck with crutches]].
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* ThatsAnOrder: Doolittle says this when making it clear that the volunteers for what became the Doolittle Raid are '''not''' to discuss where they're going with anyone.
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* ShownTheirWork: The practice scenes were shot on the real airfields where the Doolittle Raiders trained, using real B-25 bombers. An aircraft carrier set big enough to hold four real planes was built. Most impressively, footage of the real Doolittle planes taking off from the ''Hornet'' was used in the movie.
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''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' is a 1944 film directed by Mervyn [=LeRoy=], starring Creator/SpencerTracy, Van Johnson, and Robert Walker. It tells the RealLife story of the April 1942 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]] against Japan.
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lt. Col Jimmy Doolittle (Tracy) assembles a group of volunteers to man B-25 bombers for a mysterious mission. Among those pilots is Lt. Ted Lawson (Johnson), who just got married a few months ago and whose wife Ellen has just told him she's pregnant. Johnson and his crew--co-pilot Dean Davenport, bombardier Robert Clever, navigator Charles [=McClure=], and tailgunner Cpl. Robert Thatcher (Walker)--start practicing unusually short 500-foot B-25 takeoffs. Lawson's crew and all the other crews get a clue when a naval officer shows up to coordinate their drills, but not until their planes are aboard the carrier USS ''Hornet'' and the men are out to sea are the men told their mission. They will be taking off from the ''Hornet'' and conducting the first Army Air Force bombing raid of Japan. And because they are taking off from so far out, it's a one-way trip. The men will have to land somewhere in China (if they make it that far), evade capture by Japanese forces in China, and make it to safety in the Nationalist Chinese capital of Chongqing.
The Doolittle Raid inspired no fewer than four films, including Creator/CaryGrant vehicle ''Film/DestinationTokyo'', but the other films were heavily fictionalized, while ''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' was made to be an accurate account of the real history of the raid. Creator/RobertMitchum had one of his first big parts in this film, as another bomber pilot.
Despite being the TropeNamer for the trope ThirtySecondsOverTokyo, that trope is not found in this film, as there are no scenes set in Japan.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Lawson badly injures his leg in the crash landing. Eventually it has to be amputated.
* AndStarring: Spencer Tracy only has a few scenes--Van Johnson is the star as Lawson--but in the end credits after all the other names, he gets a large-type "And Spencer Tracy as Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle" credit.
* BasedOnATrueStory: Says so in the opening title, and in fact is a pretty accurate history of the Doolittle Raid and the experiences of Lt. Lawson and his crew.
* BuzzingTheDeck: Sort of. They aren't trying to scare anybody, but when flying through San Francisco Lawson flies his plane '''under''' the Bay Bridge, on a dare.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: After Doolittle tells the men that they will be going on a one-way bombing run over Japan, a visibly shocked pilot stands up and asks Doolittle if it's OK to smoke during briefings.
* CountryMouse: Thatcher, the rube from Billings, Montana, takes a lot of ribbing from his more worldly fellow airmen.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After a premature takeoff, a bombing raid, a crash landing on the Chinese coast, a desperate flight from the Japanese, and the amputation of his leg, Lawson makes it home, as do his men. (In RealLife, 69 out of 80 men survived the raid and made it back home. Three were killed in action, three were captured and executed by the Japanese, one died in Japanese captivity, and four more survived in Japanese POW camps until the end of the war.)
* FighterLaunchingSequence: The pilots take off from an aircraft carrier in B-25s, something that had never been done before. It led to this exchange between a pilot and co-pilot.
--> '''Pilot''': Raise the flaps
--> '''Co-Pilot''': (Looks) They weren't down.
--> '''Pilot''': Great. I wonder what ''else'' we forgot.
* FishOutOfWater: The airmen are out of their element on a Navy carrier. Some of them get lost trying to find their way below decks.
* {{Flashback}}: A dazed Lawson has a flashback to his wedding, while lying on a Chinese beach in great pain following a crash landing. Later, as his leg is getting cut off, he has a flashback to the time he called Ellen the previous Christmas.
* HideYourPregnancy: InUniverse, as Ellen, nervous about seeing Tom again now that she's fat with pregnancy, asks her mother if holding a coat in her arms is sufficient to hide the baby bump. This is made more poignant by the fact that Ellen is aware that Tom lost a leg.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Not right before the raid. But after explaining the nature of the mission, Doolittle ends his briefing by saying "You're a great bunch of guys. I'm proud to have been associated with you."
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Lawson, laid up with an injured leg that eventually has to be amputated, tells the other men to get out before they're captured by the Japanese. They ignore him, and eventually they all make it to safety.
* NoseArt: Lawson's plane ("ship"), the ''Ruptured Duck'', has a drawing of...a ruptured duck.
* SingleTear: Seen on the face of a single old Chinese lady as the locals help the Americans out of their village.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: DiscussedTrope, as Ellen muses over how if Ted is killed, she'll still have a little piece of him, in their baby.
* TheSquad: A five-man B-52 bomber crew. Lawson's the leader, the co-pilot likes to play poker, the bombardier is a home movie enthusiast, and Thatcher is a hick who proves unexpectedly tough under pressure.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Played for a gag. Lawson is getting a bunch of cigarettes from the ship's store when the battlestations alarm sounds. He runs out, doubles back, picks up the cigarettes, picks up the money that he'd dropped on the counter, then puts the money back down.
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lt. Col Jimmy Doolittle (Tracy) assembles a group of volunteers to man B-25 bombers for a mysterious mission. Among those pilots is Lt. Ted Lawson (Johnson), who just got married a few months ago and whose wife Ellen has just told him she's pregnant. Johnson and his crew--co-pilot Dean Davenport, bombardier Robert Clever, navigator Charles [=McClure=], and tailgunner Cpl. Robert Thatcher (Walker)--start practicing unusually short 500-foot B-25 takeoffs. Lawson's crew and all the other crews get a clue when a naval officer shows up to coordinate their drills, but not until their planes are aboard the carrier USS ''Hornet'' and the men are out to sea are the men told their mission. They will be taking off from the ''Hornet'' and conducting the first Army Air Force bombing raid of Japan. And because they are taking off from so far out, it's a one-way trip. The men will have to land somewhere in China (if they make it that far), evade capture by Japanese forces in China, and make it to safety in the Nationalist Chinese capital of Chongqing.
The Doolittle Raid inspired no fewer than four films, including Creator/CaryGrant vehicle ''Film/DestinationTokyo'', but the other films were heavily fictionalized, while ''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' was made to be an accurate account of the real history of the raid. Creator/RobertMitchum had one of his first big parts in this film, as another bomber pilot.
Despite being the TropeNamer for the trope ThirtySecondsOverTokyo, that trope is not found in this film, as there are no scenes set in Japan.
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!!Tropes:
* AnArmAndALeg: Lawson badly injures his leg in the crash landing. Eventually it has to be amputated.
* AndStarring: Spencer Tracy only has a few scenes--Van Johnson is the star as Lawson--but in the end credits after all the other names, he gets a large-type "And Spencer Tracy as Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle" credit.
* BasedOnATrueStory: Says so in the opening title, and in fact is a pretty accurate history of the Doolittle Raid and the experiences of Lt. Lawson and his crew.
* BuzzingTheDeck: Sort of. They aren't trying to scare anybody, but when flying through San Francisco Lawson flies his plane '''under''' the Bay Bridge, on a dare.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: After Doolittle tells the men that they will be going on a one-way bombing run over Japan, a visibly shocked pilot stands up and asks Doolittle if it's OK to smoke during briefings.
* CountryMouse: Thatcher, the rube from Billings, Montana, takes a lot of ribbing from his more worldly fellow airmen.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After a premature takeoff, a bombing raid, a crash landing on the Chinese coast, a desperate flight from the Japanese, and the amputation of his leg, Lawson makes it home, as do his men. (In RealLife, 69 out of 80 men survived the raid and made it back home. Three were killed in action, three were captured and executed by the Japanese, one died in Japanese captivity, and four more survived in Japanese POW camps until the end of the war.)
* FighterLaunchingSequence: The pilots take off from an aircraft carrier in B-25s, something that had never been done before. It led to this exchange between a pilot and co-pilot.
--> '''Pilot''': Raise the flaps
--> '''Co-Pilot''': (Looks) They weren't down.
--> '''Pilot''': Great. I wonder what ''else'' we forgot.
* FishOutOfWater: The airmen are out of their element on a Navy carrier. Some of them get lost trying to find their way below decks.
* {{Flashback}}: A dazed Lawson has a flashback to his wedding, while lying on a Chinese beach in great pain following a crash landing. Later, as his leg is getting cut off, he has a flashback to the time he called Ellen the previous Christmas.
* HideYourPregnancy: InUniverse, as Ellen, nervous about seeing Tom again now that she's fat with pregnancy, asks her mother if holding a coat in her arms is sufficient to hide the baby bump. This is made more poignant by the fact that Ellen is aware that Tom lost a leg.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Not right before the raid. But after explaining the nature of the mission, Doolittle ends his briefing by saying "You're a great bunch of guys. I'm proud to have been associated with you."
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Lawson, laid up with an injured leg that eventually has to be amputated, tells the other men to get out before they're captured by the Japanese. They ignore him, and eventually they all make it to safety.
* NoseArt: Lawson's plane ("ship"), the ''Ruptured Duck'', has a drawing of...a ruptured duck.
* SingleTear: Seen on the face of a single old Chinese lady as the locals help the Americans out of their village.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: DiscussedTrope, as Ellen muses over how if Ted is killed, she'll still have a little piece of him, in their baby.
* TheSquad: A five-man B-52 bomber crew. Lawson's the leader, the co-pilot likes to play poker, the bombardier is a home movie enthusiast, and Thatcher is a hick who proves unexpectedly tough under pressure.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Played for a gag. Lawson is getting a bunch of cigarettes from the ship's store when the battlestations alarm sounds. He runs out, doubles back, picks up the cigarettes, picks up the money that he'd dropped on the counter, then puts the money back down.
