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Midway: Directed by Roland Emmerich. With Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans. The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.
- (96K)
- Action, Drama, History
- Roland Emmerich
- 2019-11-08
The Gallant Hours. A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
- (1.9K)
- Biography, Drama, War
- Robert Montgomery
- 1960-06-13
Admiral Yamamoto, with the support of Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, proposes an audacious plan to invade Midway Island using the four available Japanese carriers of the "Kido Butai" but the Japanese Army overrules them.
Jun 26, 2019 · The first trailer premieres exclusively at usatoday.com. The decisive victory was the focus of the 1976 Charlton Heston film “Midway” but Emmerich has wanted to do his own version for 20 years.
- Movie Critic
- "Midway" Was A Giant Summer hit.
- Sensurround Was A Huge Selling Point.
- The Battle Scenes Are All Recycled Footage from Other Movies.
- Most of The Lead Actors Could Have Served at Midway.
- Capt. Matt Garth Is A Totally Made-Up character.
- All of The Japanese Characters Speak English.
- The Three-Hour Extended TV Version Is Now lost.
"Midway" was released in June 1976 and became the ninth biggest movie of the year, coming in between Clint Eastwood's third Dirty Harry movie "The Enforcer" at No. 8 and the original "The Bad News Bears" starring Walter Matthau at No. 10. It only took $46.2 million in box office to crack the top 10 that year. 1976 was a last gasp for this kind of O...
"Midway" was my first war movie. I was a little kid who bought a ticket because I loved Universal's crazy in-theater special effect. Sensurround debuted with the 1974 disaster movie "Earthquake," and "Midway" was the touted follow-up. Theaters installed giant, low-frequency Cerwin-Vega speakers that generated a wicked rumble that made the entire th...
As you watch the spectacular FX in the 2019 version of "Midway," remember that Universal cut every possible corner in 1976. Much of the battle footage was licensed from 20th Century Fox's 1970 movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!" Producers padded things out with scenes from the 1960 Japanese production "Storm Over the Pacific." But wait, there's more: The Zer...
The cast of Midway is old. Like, really old. Henry Fonda, who portrays Adm. Chester Nimitz, was 71 years old when the movie was released. He served in the Navyduring World War II and narrated Ford's Midway documentary. Nimitz was actually 67 at Midway, so that casting's close to accurate. Charlton Heston, who plays the lead, was a rapidly aging 52....
As the new 2019 "Midway" movie reminds us, there are plenty of real-life heroes from Midway whose stories deserve to be told. Old Hollywood decided that the real tale needed some spice and created Capt. Matt Garth, a divorced officer whose rebellious son wants to marry a Japanese-American girl. Her parents have been detained and could be on their w...
How do you rope in audiences who don’t have the patience for foreign-type films? Drop the subtitles and just have your Japanese officers speak English to each other. Sounds like a plan, except that the great Toshiro Mifune, the actor who played Adm. Yamamoto, had an accent so thick that audiences couldn’t understand him. The producers hired the gre...
"Midway" was such a hit that Universal went back and shot an additional 45 minutes of footage for a three-hour version that aired on NBC. There was some additional battle footage that covered the warm-up Battle of the Coral Sea, but mostly there was an invented new plot involving Capt. Garth's girlfriend Ann (played by Susan Sullivan, aged 34 and o...
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Dec 10, 2019 · Dennis Quaid stars as ‘Admiral William “Bull” Halsey’ in MIDWAY. This film is the only version to show the difference between slow-moving Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers, easy targets which scored few hits, and the fast Dauntless dive-bombers, which come out of the sky in almost vertical dives onto Japanese carriers.
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Admiral Nimitz : I can just imagine Washington's reaction if I hand over the Enterprise and the Hornet to a cruiser skipper. Especially after all the static I've been getting about going out looking for the Japanese at Midway. Vice Adm. William F. 'Bull' Halsey Jr.
