---
title: 'Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mervyn LeRoy'
released: '1944-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 138
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/thirty-seconds-over-tokyo-1944'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037366/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

1944 · 138 min · Drama, War · United States


## Synopsis

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 American war film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo is based on the 1943 book of the same name by Captain Ted W. Lawson. Lawson was a pilot on the historic Doolittle Raid, America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan, four months after the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid was planned, led by, and named after United States Army Air Forces Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, who was promoted two ranks, to brigadier general, the day after the raid.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mervyn LeRoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/mervyn-leroy)
- **Screenplay:** [Dalton Trumbo](https://cinepixo.com/people/dalton-trumbo)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Herbert Stothart](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-stothart)
- **Producer:** [Sam Zimbalist](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-zimbalist)
- **Director of Photography:** [Robert L. Surtees](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-l-surtees), [Harold Rosson](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-rosson)
- **Editor:** [Frank Sullivan](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-sullivan)

## Cast

- [Stephen McNally](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-mcnally)
- [Robert Bice](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-bice)
- [Bill Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-williams)
- [Hazel Brooks](https://cinepixo.com/people/hazel-brooks)
- [Alan Napier](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-napier)
- [Robert Mitchum](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-mitchum)
- [Benson Fong](https://cinepixo.com/people/benson-fong)
- [Ann Shoemaker](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-shoemaker)
- [Louis Jean Heydt](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-jean-heydt)
- [Spencer Tracy](https://cinepixo.com/people/spencer-tracy)
- [Van Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/van-johnson)
- [Jacqueline White](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacqueline-white)
- [Leon Ames](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-ames)
- [Paul Langton](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-langton)
- [Morris Ankrum](https://cinepixo.com/people/morris-ankrum)

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