Movie: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944 – 75-year anniversary)
Mervyn LeRoy’s fact-based WWII action-drama about the first bombing run on Japan rocked popcorn-gobbling audiences with its star power (Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson among them), Oscar-winning effects, and intelligent script by Dalton Trumbo. And it’s held up over time, still sweeping audiences along with an extended air combat sequence that still dazzles over seventy years later. (2 hours, 18 mins)