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Jun 18, 1976 · Midway: Directed by Jack Smight. With Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford. A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
- (21K)
- Action, Drama, History
- Jack Smight
- 1976-06-18
Budget. $4 million. Box office. $100 million. Midway, released in the United Kingdom as Battle of Midway, is a 1976 American war film that chronicles the Battle of Midway, a turning point in the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II.
- $4 million
- John Williams
- June 18, 1976 (United States)
- Walter Mirisch
Lt. Hashimoto (uncredited) Yôsuke Natsuki. ... Japanese Pilot on Hiryu (archive footage) (uncredited) Bennett Ohta. ... Captain Taijiro Aoki - Commander of Akagi (uncredited) Frank Parker.
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Jul 27, 2005 · The film Midway (1976) introduces the story of a fictional Captain Matt Garth, a Naval Air Wing commander who is recuperating from wounds suffered during Pearl Harbor. His relationship with his son, Thomas (Edward Albert), becomes strained when the latter marries a woman of Japanese descent, providing the main dramatic thread.
- Jack Smight
- Robert Ito
Midway (1976) Movie Info Synopsis In this dramatization of the Battle of Midway during World War II, U.S. Navy Adm. Chester Nimitz (Henry Fonda) leads an outnumbered unit in the Pacific to break ...
- (17)
- War
- PG
Advertisement. But this "Midway" was filmed for 1976, and so cannot be as straightforward. Instead of bugle calls, blood and guts and jingoism, we get the battle as a tactical game. American and Japanese strategists push model ships around their war maps until we feel we know the Pacific as intimately as they do.
