Midway
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. Directed by Jack Smight and produced by Walter Mirisch from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford, the film starred Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda, supported by a large international cast of guest stars including James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Ed Nelson, Hal Holbrook, Robert Webber, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Pat Morita, Dabney Coleman, Erik Estrada and Tom Selleck.
Plot
On April 18, 1942, a daring and unexpected bomb raid on Tokyo stuns the Japanese. The commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Admiral Yamamoto, uses the threat posed to the Japanese home islands by the American Pacific Fleet to have his plan to invade Midway Island approved. At Pearl Harbor, Captain Matt Garth is tasked to gauge the progress of American intelligence gathering. Commander Joseph Rochefort's staff, partially able to read Japanese Navy communications, learn their next target is code-named "AF". Yamamoto plans the Midway attack, with Admirals Nagumo and Yamaguchi leading the Japanese carrier forces and Admiral Kondo the amphibious invasion force.
Cast
- Biff McGuire
- Charlton Heston
- Christina Kokubo
- Christopher George
- Cliff Robertson
- Clyde Kusatsu
- Conrad Yama
- Dabney Coleman
- Dale Ishimoto
- Ed Nelson
- Edward Albert
- Erik Estrada
- Frank Parker
- Glenn Corbett
- Glenn Ford
- Gregory Walcott
- Hal Holbrook
- Henry Fonda
- James Coburn
- James Ingersoll
- James Shigeta
- Jim Ishida
- John Bennett Perry
- John Fujioka
- John Lupton
- John Schuck
- Kevin Dobson
- Kurt Grayson
- Larry Csonka
- Larry Pennell
- Lloyd Kino
- Miiko Taka
- Mitchell Ryan
- Monte Markham
- Pat Morita
- Paul Frees
- Phillip R. Allen
- Raymond A. Spruance
- Robert Ito
- Robert Mitchum
- Robert Wagner
- Robert Webber
- Sab Shimono
- Seth Sakai
- Steve Kanaly
- Susan Sullivan
- Tom Selleck
- Toshirō Mifune
- William Halsey Jr.
- Yuki Shimoda
More details
| author | Donald S. Sanford |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Insular Oceania |
| director | Jack Smight |
| editor | Frank J. Urioste Robert Swink |
| events | aviation Pacific War World War II |
| genre | action drama historical |
| keywords | abandon admiral nimitz admiral yamamoto american pacific fleet battle of the coral sea burn chūichi nagumo combat air patrol daring and unexpected bomb raid on tokyo doolittle raid gather george h. gay jr. imperial japan imperial japanese navy internment internment of japanese americans japanese archipelago japanese home islands joseph rochefort kill kondo midway island nagumo nobutake kondō pearl harbor talk tamon yamaguchi than the united states pacific fleet wound yamaguchi |
| musicBy | John Williams |
| producer | Walter Mirisch |
| productionCompany | The Mirisch Corporation |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| recordedAt | Los Angeles |
| theme | action drama epic war |