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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 ...
Her movie debut was opposite Van Johnson in the 1944 wartime film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. [2] In the 1945 film-noir Bewitched, Thaxter played Joan Alris Ellis, a woman with split personality. In 1948, she played a cattle owner's daughter in Blood on the Moon. Photo of Phyllis Thaxter and Van Johnson from the film, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1944
"30 Seconds Over Tokyo" is the debut single by American post-punk band Pere Ubu. Written by band members David Thomas, Peter Laughner, and Gene O'Connor during their stint with Pere Ubu's predecessor Rocket from the Tombs, it was released on Thomas' independent Hearthan Records in 1975. The song received very little airplay at the time but has ...
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo first appeared serialized in six issues of Collier's magazine, from May 22 to June 26, 1943. [2] It was also published later that year by Random House in a 220-page hardback "wartime book" ( 5 + 1 ⁄ 4 in × 7 + 3 ⁄ 4 in; 13 cm × 20 cm) format.
The existence of a submarine in Tokyo Bay relaying information to the Doolittle Raid is mentioned in the film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), based on pilot Ted Lawson's memoir. There is a scene on the USS Hornet where Lawson ( Van Johnson ), fresh from a briefing on the latest positions of the barrage balloons over Tokyo, tells his friend ...
"Thirty Minutes over Tokyo" is one of two episodes that never aired in Japan, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (the other being season 11 episode "Little Big Mom"). [18] The reasoning behind this was that a scene in the episode, which shows Homer throwing Japan's then-emperor Akihito into a box filled with sumo thongs, was considered disrespectful. [8]
The miniature work was performed by the MGM special-effects team of A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahrus and Warren Newcombe that later worked on Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944). [13] During the scene in which Tracy's character is killed, he is shown launching a suicidal divebomb run on a German aircraft carrier, but Germany never had an ...
While Ted Lawson was still recovering from wounds suffered in Doolittle's Tokyo raid, Considine finished Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo." He made an estimated $100,000 annually. [2] He continued to work for Hearst while writing his books and adapting some of them into screenplays. He was undaunted by the pace of his schedule.