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Overview
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Release Date:
November 1944 (USA)
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Tagline:
Heart-Warming Romance . . . Stark, Sensational Drama! Thrills! Action! Adventure! ...Ripped From The Heart!
Plot:
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland. full summary | add synopsis
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Aircraft Carrier
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Bomber
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China
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Japan
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Doolittle Raid
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Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 1 nomination
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(2 articles)
Van Johnson: 1916 - 2008
(From IMDb News. 14 December 2008, 1:27 PM, PST)
Actor Van Johnson Dies
(From WENN. 12 December 2008, 11:34 AM, PST)
(From IMDb News. 14 December 2008, 1:27 PM, PST)
Actor Van Johnson Dies
(From WENN. 12 December 2008, 11:34 AM, PST)
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It's about the Doolittle Raid.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Van Johnson | ... | Ted Lawson - Crew of the Ruptured Duck |
 | Robert Walker | ... | David Thatcher - Crew of the Ruptured Duck |
| Tim Murdock | ... | Dean Davenport - Crew of the Ruptured Duck |
| Don DeFore | ... | Charles McClure - Crew of the Ruptured Duck |
| Herbert Gunn | ... | Bob Clever - Crew of the Ruptured Duck (as Gordon McDonald) |
| Phyllis Thaxter | ... | Ellen Lawson |
| Stephen McNally | ... | 'Doc' White (as Horace McNally) |
| John R. Reilly | ... | 'Shorty' Manch |
 | Robert Mitchum | ... | Bob Gray |
| Scott McKay | ... | Davey Jones |
| Donald Curtis | ... | Lieut. Randall |
| Louis Jean Heydt | ... | Lieut. Miller |
| William 'Bill' Phillips | ... | Don Smith (as Wm. 'Bill' Phillips) |
 | Douglas Cowan | ... | 'Brick' Holstrom |
| Paul Langton | ... | Captain 'Ski' York |
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Runtime:
138 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #10248) |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
Canada:PG (video rating) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:S |
Spain:T |
Sweden:15
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Debut of John Dehner.
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Revealing mistakes: The leather flight jackets worn by most of the flying personnel in the film were close commercial copies of military A-2 flight jackets. Authentic military-contract A-2 jackets had a one-piece back, without a horizontal seam across the shoulders. Most of the jackets in the film have a seam across the back.
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Lt. Ted Lawson:
Goodbye.
Young Dr. Chung: I have one sorrow, Lieutenant. that we did not have the medicine to ease your pain.
Lt. Ted Lawson: You saved my life, Doc.
Young Dr. Chung: I hope that someday you'll come back to us.
Lt. Ted Lawson: We'll be back. Maybe not us ourselves but a lotta guys like us, and I'd like to be with them. You're our kind of people.
Young Dr. Chung: Thank you, sir.
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Young Dr. Chung: I have one sorrow, Lieutenant. that we did not have the medicine to ease your pain.
Lt. Ted Lawson: You saved my life, Doc.
Young Dr. Chung: I hope that someday you'll come back to us.
Lt. Ted Lawson: We'll be back. Maybe not us ourselves but a lotta guys like us, and I'd like to be with them. You're our kind of people.
Young Dr. Chung: Thank you, sir.
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Movie Connections:
Edited into Bridge to the Sun (1961)
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Soundtrack:
There's a Long, Long Trail
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I know its a World War Two propaganda movie. And I know that Hollywood treatments of historical subjects must be taken with a huge boulder-size grain of salt. That being said, this is a credible movie that is worth watching. The fact is that the Doolittle Raid DID happen, that in early 1942 the outcome of the war against Japan was at best uncertain, and that Japanese aggression post Pearl Harbor posed a clear and imminent threat to the United States. It's hard to believe that Japan was THAT powerful, but it was. Japan occupied or controlled about one-quarter of the surface of the world, including most of eastern China, all of Manchuria, the ENTIRE Korean peninsula, ALL of southeast Asia, including ALL of Indonesia and Singapore, the Philippines, and the entire western Pacific Ocean. And Japan accomplished this ALL BY ITSELF. So the Doolittle Raid was a truly momentous event, as the movie aptly shows, and thus even with all the clichés and all the stilted and corny acting, the movie is still worth watching. The Doolittle Raid marked the beginning of the end for Japan, because it blew away the myth of Japanese invincibility and proved to the world that it was just a matter of time before a fleet of sixteen B-25 Mitchell bombers would be followed by huge air armadas of B-29s that would crush Japanese militarism for all time and eventually convert Japan from an implacable enemy to an allie and a friend.