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Midway proved extremely popular with movie audiences, and opened at number one at the US box office with an opening weekend gross of $4,356,666 from 311 theatres. It went on to gross over $43 million at the US box office, becoming the tenth most popular movie of 1976 with theatrical rentals of $20,300,000.
- $4 million
- John Williams
- June 18, 1976 (United States)
- Walter Mirisch
Jun 18, 1976 · A film based on the 1942 battle that turned the tide of the Pacific Theatre of World War II, starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn and others. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, plot summary, goofs, quotes and more on IMDb.
- (21K)
- Action, Drama, History
- Jack Smight
- 1976-06-18
Find out who starred in the 1976 war film Midway, directed by Jack Smight and produced by Walter Mirisch. See the full cast and crew list, including Charlton Heston, James Coburn, Robert Mitchum, Toshirô Mifune and more.
A war film about the Battle of Midway in World War II, starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, and Toshirô Mifune. See the ratings, photos, and critic and audience reviews for this 1976 movie.
- (17)
- Jack Smight
- PG
- Charlton Heston
A dramatization of the historic June 1942 naval engagement where the US Navy intercepted and decoded Japanese messages and sent two carrier groups to Midway Island, where they met and destroyed a Japanese carrier force. The film depicts the events from the perspectives of both sides, adding a subplot of a personal romance between a US flyer and a Japanese girl.
A war action drama film about the historic June battle of Midway in 1942, where the American and Japanese fleets clashed. The film features Robert Ito, Conrad Yama, Kip Niven and Glen Corbett as the main cast.
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.
