Review – 30 Seconds Over Tokyo

Plus two hours 17 minutes 30 seconds of intensely boring movie. The parts of this movie that focus on the Doolittle raid – and training for same – are interesting enough. Some of the escaping-the-Japanese stuff is mildly interesting, though the Chinese caricature characters are wince-worthy. And one has to expect and tolerate a certain amount of handsome pilot and pretty wife romance. But they really go over the top with the gooning between aw-shucks Van Johnson and perpetually-grinning Phyllis Thaxter. And Doolittle himself ought probably to have been a bigger part of the movie, particularly as they got Spencer Tracy to play him. Mildly amusing