Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
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.
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What critics compared Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo to
(You might compare it to pictures made about the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo—like 1944’s “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,” an accomplished morale-booster.)
Once that is over, the makers tack on an extended sequence depicting Jimmy Doolittle's daring raid on Japan, a la Mervyn LeRoy's "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo."
Those two events have been the subject of their own books and movies (like "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo").
Like the Energizer Bunny from Hell, this thing just keeps going and going and going … We can’t leave America in this state of disgrace, so the film morphs into Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and Doolittle’s (Alec Baldwin suffering from John Wayne syndrome) bombing of Japan.
Instead, they’ve drawn inspiration from WWII-era classics like Air Force and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo , grounding their ensemble in authentic human emotions and giving them inner lives beyond what happens to them in the cockpit.
Director-writer George Lucas ("American Graffitti") has composed a stunning visual symphony with elements of "The Wizard of Oz," "The Three Musketeers" and even "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" as well as obvious science-fiction antecedents.