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Robert Mitchum | Lt. Bob Gray | |
Van Johnson | Lt. Ted Lawson | |
John Reilly | ||
Phyllis Thaxter | Ellen Lawson | |
Spencer Tracy | Gen. James Doolittle | |
Robert Walker | Cpl. David Thatcher | |
Horace McNally | ||
Scott McKay | Capt. Davey Jones | |
Gordon McDonald | ||
Tim Murdock | Lt. Dean Davenport | |
Herbert Gunn | Bob Clever | |
Don DeFore | Lt. Charles McClure | |
John R. Reilly | Lt. Jacob 'Shorty' Manch | |
Stephen McNally | Lt. Thomas 'Doc' White | |
Donald Curtis | Lieut. Randall | |
Louis Jean Heydt | Lieut. Miller | |
William Phillips | Don Smith | |
Douglas Cowan | 'Brick' Holstrom | |
Paul Langton | Captain 'Ski' York |
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Producer | Sam Zimbalist
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Writer | Dalton Trumbo
Robert Considine Ted W. Lawson |
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Cinematography | Robert Surtees
Harold Rosson |
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Musician | Herbert Stothart
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Heroic and True! The top-secret World War II mission that sent America's hopes soaring. Coaxing a hulking Mitchell B-25 into the sky from a short, 500-foot carrier runway on a bouncing sea is dangerous. Tougher still is doing it with a full bomb load. But for Lt. Col. James Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) and the crewmen of 16 B-25s, that just the start of the mission. Academy Award-winning Best Special Effects recreate the squadron's low-altitude, "hedge-hopping" sweep over Japan in this suspenseful saga of the attack that bolstered U.S. morale during the bleak early days of the Pacific war. The intensive training, the daring bombing run, the subsequent forced landings in China and the perilous trek to safety: all the valiant touchstones of the true-life raid are captured in a beloved classic whose other stars include Van Johnson, Robert Walker and Robert Mitchum. |
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