Four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of American flyers take part in the first U.S. air retaliation attack against Japan - and crash-land into history´s most astounding prisoner-of-war story!
Made at the height of World War II, this reality-based war drama stars Dana Andrews and Farley Granger as two of the eight "Doolittle Raiders" who are put on trail in a Japanese civil court, now as P.O.W.s, but as criminals charged with murder! As this travesty of justice proceeds, the airmen realize that their only hope of avoiding execution is to reveal to their enemy captors the top-secret details of their flight to Japan. The choice between death and betrayal of country is theirs to make in this "magnificent testament to American bravery." (New York Herald Tribune)
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| Audio Commentary by Film Critic Richard Schickel |
| Original Theatrical Trailer |
