The crews of 24 bombers are sent to an airfield in Florida, and are told only that they will be out of the country for three months on a secret mission.
In fact, secrecy is so important that the officers and their wives are given their own hotel. The hints gradually emerge, especially when a naval officer arrives to train them how to takeoff from a ridiculously short distance. One of the bomber pilots, Lt. Ted Lawson, is recently married, and he worries about his pregnant wife. After completing their training, the crews fly to San Francisco where their bombers are loaded on to the carrier Hornet.
Once the carrier is at sea, they learn that their mission is to bomb Japan. The raid goes smoothly, but Lawson is badly injured during a landing in China. The movie was made in so American audiences already knew all of the details of the raid and that it was intended to be a morale boost after Pearl Harbor and the string of Japanese victories in the Pacific. As a result, the story is told from the perspective of the pilots, who do not even know the mission until more than halfway through the movie.
While the movie naturally focuses on Lawson, it does not neglect the rest of the pilots, presenting their personalities perfectly. However, the movie is divided into four parts: the training, the carrier, the raid and China, so there is no real climax.
Even the bombing of Tokyo is presented in a relatively low-key fashion, where the scene itself had little drama, and did not stand out from the rest of the film. An aerial shot of the Hornet shows how small it was when compared to regular airfields, which helps the viewer better appreciate the challenge of flying a bomber from an aircraft carrier.
Aside from a number of changes introduced to satisfy the Production Code, a few other alterations were made to help the war effort.
The screen Lawson receives a friendly welcome from his roommates on the carrier, but in reality they resented both sharing their already limited living space, and having their carrier turned into a ferry. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to do something no one ever dreamed possible — launch 16 fully loaded bombers from an aircraft carrier! Remarkable in its accuracy, this movie even uses film footage from the actual raid.
However, there does not seem to be any such changes in this movie, as there is plenty of drama in the original story. Most of the dialogue was taken directly from the book by the same name. You get kind of mixed up. Ted Lawson : It's hard to figure, yet here we are. Sign In. Play trailer Drama History War. Director Mervyn LeRoy.
Dalton Trumbo screen play Ted W. Lawson based on the book Bob Considine based on the book. Top credits Director Mervyn LeRoy. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Official Trailer. Photos Top cast Edit. Doolittle as Lieutenant Colonel James H. John R. Reilly 'Shorty' Manch as 'Shorty' Manch.
Donald Curtis Lieut. Randall as Lieut. Louis Jean Heydt Lieut. Miller as Lieut. Leon Ames Lieut. Jurika as Lieut. Mervyn LeRoy. More like this.
Watch options. Storyline Edit. Stunned by Pearl Harbor and a string of defeats, America needed a victory - badly. To that end, Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, a former air racer and stunt pilot, devises a plan for a daring raid on the heart of Japan itself. To do this, he must train army bomber pilots to do something no one ever dreamed possible - launch 16 fully loaded bombers from an aircraft carrier! Remarkable in its accuracy, this movie even uses film footage from the actual raid.
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