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Now that most people know “Pearl Harbor” is a combination of “Tora, Tora, Tora” and “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,” this 1944 film directed by Mergyn LeRoy might gain some renewed interest. Dalton Trumbo’s screenplay is based on the book by Captain Ted. W. Lawson and Robert Considine, and it is Van Johnson as Lawson who is the main character in this film. Spencer Tracy’s role as Lt. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle is basically a supporting fraction, which, or course, Tracy nails. The film is an consuming and essentially faithful retelling of the eminent air raid of Japan that was America’s first necessary payback for the raid on Pearl Harbor. The film not only has a documentary style, including right footage of the B-25s taking off from the carrier Hornet, it also uses the dependable name of the raiders, which is a nice tribute to the members of the Doolittle Raid. Covering both the grueling training as well as the precise raid, “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” has the deserved reputation of being one of the most fair films produced during World War II about the real war, winning the 1945 Oscar for Best Special Effects. The cast includes Robert Walker, Don DeFore, and a very young Robert Mitchum. If you lift history to melodrama, then it might be worth your while to do a double-feature of “Tora, Tora, Tora” and “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” some weekend.
This 1944 film, shot in dim and white, is based on a correct chronicle. Four months after Pearl Harbor had been bombed, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle devised a view for a intrepid raid on the heart of Japan itself. To do this he had to grunt army bomber pilots to do something no one ever dreamed possible – originate 16 fully loaded bombers from an aircraft carrier. It was a success. And this film is a tribute to those men.
Van Johnson stars as Lieutenant Ted Lawson and he does a substantial job as the fighter pilot who is sometimes alarmed, confused and very human. The supporting cast includes Spencer Tracy as Doolittle, and Robert Mitchum, Don Defore, Robert Walker and a dozen other young actors whose names never did become household words. Phyllis Thaxter is cast as Van Johnson’s young wife and the romance scenes they have together, complete with background violin music, are the only scenes I found a bit too overdone for current tastes.
The rest of the film however, was pudgy of action. I can well understand why it won an Academy Award for special effects because it do the audience moral there on those shrimp planes along with the men and venerable newsreel footage to supplement the scenes shot inside the planes. I really learned about the mission and the nature of the training, and felt the authenticity of a film that was actually made in 1944, not fair a revisionist historian’s interpretation. Here, the slang was staunch. They got the “dope” on what was going on, found out that everything was “swell” and the women were called “girls”. Everyone smoked cigarettes too, a reality the fresh politically factual “Pearl Harbor” seemed to ignore. Also, considering the hatred that raged during the war, I was surprised that in one scene Van Johnson says that his family had a Japanese gardener and he didn’t seem like a unpleasant guy. And when Doolittle addresses his men before they capture off, he talks about the fact that the men will be taking civilian lives as well as the military targets. The raid was successful but the film doesn’t destroy there. Van Johnson and his crew were shot down over China and were treated like heroes by the Chinese. Some of the scenes that followed, where Van Johnson’s leg has to be removed are harrowing and displayed his exquisite acting skills.
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To gather a obliging opinion of what it must have been like in 1944 in America, this video is a must. Not only do we accumulate a feeling of the patriotism, we also hear the music, hear the slang and find a sense of time and area that is impossible to re-create 50 years later. Highly recommended.
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