Rating: NR
Genre: War
Release Date: 06/05/2007
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 139 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video

Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage concerns pilot Ted Lawson (Van Johnson), who loses a leg while escaping from China after the attack; other subplots concern the meticulous preparations for the raid, and the individual exploits of those Doolittle flyers who crashed into the sea or were captured by the Japanese.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Van Johnson - Capt. Ted W. Lawson
Robert Walker - David Thatcher
Phyllis Thaxter - Ellen Jones Lawson
Tim Murdock - Dean Davenport
Scott McKay - Davey Jones
Robert Mitchum - Bob Gray
Gordon McDonald - Bob Clever
Spencer Tracy - Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle
Don DeFore - Charles McClure
John R. Reilly - Shorty Manch
Horace McNally - Doc White
Donald Curtis - Lt. Randall
Louis Jean Heydt - Lt. Miller
William "Bill" Phillips - Don Smith
Douglas Cowan - Brick Holstrom
Paul Langton - Capt. Ski York
Leon Ames - Lt. Cmdr. Jurika

Production:
Mervyn LeRoy - Director
Sam Zimbalist - Producer
Herbert Stothart - Composer
Frank Sullivan - Editor
Dalton Trumbo - Screen Writer
Ralph S. Hurst Edwin B. Willis - Set Designer
Cedric Gibbons - Art Director
Paul Groesse - Art Director
Robert Considine - Book Author
Harold Hal Rosson - Cinematographer
Robert Surtees - Cinematographer
Arnold A. Gillespie - Special Effects
Donald Jahraus - Special Effects
Warren Newcombe - Special Effects
Capt. Ted W. Lawson - Book Author

Bombardier
    Pat O'Brien / NR / 1943
Memphis Belle
    Matthew Modine / PG13 / 1990
Air Force
    John Ridgely / NR / 1943
Twelve O'Clock High
    Gregory Peck / NR / 1949
Flying Tigers
    John Wayne / NR / 1942
Destination Tokyo
    Cary Grant / NR / 1943
Mosquito Squadron
    David McCallum / G / 1970

1944 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie

1944 National Board of Review