Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - Trailer (1944)

[twinstu50]

just .

Charging through a door, shit, smoke, dust, yelling, fuckin' scared, will I be dead, and, then, nothing, just another empty, room .

Except, maybe one time, as you kick the door, BOOM!, you're dead.

As you kick the door, turn right and kick a trip wire, you're dead.

As you kick a door, the family behind offers you a small cup of tea, they are scared shitless.

As my Son was.

He had the gun, but, to his credit, he sat down with the family, and drank their tea.

[twinstu50]

To continue. I've done 23 years Military, (REMF), our two sons also have served, one in combat, and we're dealing with that, not pretty, but not looking for a sympathy vote. Stiff shit. (Australian term, basically, 'Get over it".) My point is this. Our son worked with Yanks. Being shot at. He said, "Dad, they're gutsy bastards, they're mad bastards, but, jees, (Jesus), they don't 'hang back', they're fuckin' mad. They 'run in'. (kick a door and then..) GUTSY BASTARDS.

[twinstu50]

Further.

The Doolittle Raiders were gutsy bastards, no argument.

The background of every airman that took part is significant, each one is unique, as though fate had chosen each man, the right man, the very special man, for this mission.

Their backgrounds are of America back then, farm boys, business men, a washing machine salesman, career Military, civillian Pilots, They cut the mustard! Courage.

26 October, 2011, you young warriors, whatever your duty, shine.

[canaanclb]

when the american said to the chinese guy that he wanted to come back, he was probably talking about the korean war.

[twinstu50]

@canaanclb

No, not so.

When this movie was made, the korean war was in the future, this movie was made in 1944.

Do your homework.

[canaanclb]

@twinstu50 don't tell me to do my homework. i know the korean war was in the future. i know when this movie was made. i love to study world warII. world war II ended in 1945, a year after this movie was made. the korean war started five years later, in 1950, and i bet many of the people who fought in world war II also fought in korea, because the guy said "i'd like to come back because you're our kind of people." i meant it as a joke. sorry about that.

[twinstu50]

@canaanclb

No apology is necessary

In this instance, I'm just a crusty old bastard stepping off on the wrong foot.

Mea Culpa.

I too, love to study WW11, particularly the human side of it, as opposed to the propaganda side.

Right now, 26 October, I have just finished reading the biography of Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, - 'Baa Baa Black Sheep".

He started the manuscript in 1948, and as he clearly says, because of his battle with the booze, did'nt finish it until 1958.

Awesome man!.

[canaanclb]

@twinstu50 yeah, i've heard of pappy boyington, too. very good person!

[recklesshabitat]

Im watching this on tcm right now 2 years later

[MrNIPPONJIN]

鬼　畜　米　英　

[jeffair5]

I first read this book in the 3rd grade,and have read it twice since then.Great book!!!!!!!!!!!

[propfan2k]

Great film clip from a great book. I read it in grammar school too.

But the book is not a novel. Novels are works of fiction and this is a true account of the events as seen through Ted Lawson's eyes and told to journalist Bob Considine.

[auhsoj29]

I Like this Movie!

[StatesRightsDemocrat]

im watching this right now on TCM. its so much better than i thought itd be

[Beertr1x]

Love Van Johnson.

[magick205]

Good movie. I still think his personal best was Caine Mutiny with Bogart, McMurray, and Jose Ferrer. He will be missed, but he did play some good characters. Fly on Duck, fly on.

[rldavis1959]

Rest in peace, Mr. Johnson.

[joemerto1960]

seria fabuloso poderlo conseguir en formato dvd.

[cochranexyz]

We read and re-read this book as kids. God movie, too.

[warpedcomedy]

are any ofthese actors still alive?

[rldavis1959]

Van Johnson died yesterday.

[irish89055]

His wife, (thaxter) is... The real gunner played by Robert Walker still lives as do about a dozen others of the original raiders. Too bad there aren't any other clips on here of the movie. Anyone know what became of Tim Murdock? They forgot to mention the other crew member, Don Defore, you know from ther series "Hazel"

[54spiritedwill54]

Pearl Harbor could have been better. This is by far the best version of The Doolittle Raid.

[skylur44]

Love this movie, back in a simpler time when people loved and fought and knew who their enemies were and weren't; not afraid to fight or to love...

[irishoforiel]

Because no can stop the Army Air Force!The theme at the end of the United States Army Air Corps percurser of the United States Air Force!

[HisMajestyOKeefe]

His son and Biographer say thats the way he spoke, you may wallow in vulgarity at movies and in real life today but I prefer a better time

[Renshen1957]

Spencer Tracy had the benefit of hearing how Gen Doolittle talked. Tracy was a consumate actor and gave a realistic characterization as possible. I read the book Thirty Seconds over Tokyo in elementary school and Hollywood caught the spirit of the Ted Lawson's book (a rare event). People were decent back in the 1940's by and large. Even in the 1950's and into the 1960's the fastest way for a man to get a punch in the nose was to swear and cuss infront of another man's wife and children.

[anghmho]

@Renshen1957 True regarding the punch in the nose. I think that's because we thought we should be the people we were shown to be in the media. You become who you think you are. If you think you are good, that thought will govern what you do. All that political crap about family values is just hogwash to get your vote. We are still the same people. Neighbors still help neighbors. The media have changed our perceptions of ourselves. But we haven't changed. We're still good people.

[HisMajestyOKeefe]

Every word spoken by Spencer Tracy was a direct quote from Jimmy Doolittle, unlike "Pearl Harbor" by Disney(!?) which had Doolittle cussing in public, something he didnt do, spoke with his son and biographer last weekend and they tried to get it corrected before filming began, no dice, Hollywood loves trashy talk today

I'll take Cheesy talk any day

[alonsocamilo]

It's right that movie Pearl Harbor was a dissapointment. The other one is still the best about Dolittle's raid and this movie got an oscar for the best special effects.

I have read the Ted Lawson's book, as the title of movie is,and it is touching, and rather descriptive.

From Peru

[boxerlph]

the only thing they got right in the movie Pearl Harbor was the attack itself. everything else in that movie was fluff.

[tss77]

I read the book and saw the movie.

I have the greatest admiration for General Doolittle; because America needed to this tiny victory when Japan seemed to be running rampant in the Pacific. This tiny raid also made the Japanese Naval command except Admiral Yamamoto's plan for Midway Island and their defeat in June 1942.

[alonsocamilo]

I've watched this movie so many times, so interesting and illustrative of those times in the II WW.

[enchilada93]

As far as I know...Gen. Doolittle did not devise the plan! A submariner of all warriors, put the idea to either Hap Arnold or one of the higher ups in the Chain of Command...maybe Nimitz or Gen. Marshall? The plan was given to Jimmy Doolittle because he had a reputation for making the impossible...possible! The greatest aviator ever and always will be!!!

[enchilada93]

Wow...where do I start..I have met about 20 of the Raiders and I saw General Doolittle in Las Vegas in 1986! It was an honor to breath the same air! I have also met Ellen Lawson! (Ted's widow!) Only one thing to say...Alec Baldwin would have to stand on his mothers shoulders to kiss Jimmy Doolittle's ass!!! LOL Please watch the movie! (30 Seconds Over Tokyo) Pearl Harbor...good movie but woefully inaccurate!!! That's my final word!

[castraregina]

Ted Lawson's book is tremendous and the movie is not bad either

[Mobius4077]

Pearl Harbor could have been better. This is by far the best version of The Doolittle Raid.

[dogswrestling58]

hey dude...pearl harbor is the shit i dont care wat u say

[ramgator]

They don't make em like they used to. What a great movie. Scary that some people only know of the pathetic Pearl harbor version. Why is this NOT on DVD?