Midway 1976

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 132 min

genre: action

theme: war

director: Jack Smight

Score: 5 / 10

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 squadron of B-25 bombers from the launches a raid on Tokyo. The strike stuns the Imperial Japanese Navy and its commander Admiral Yamamoto. With hard evidence of the threat posed to the Japanese home islands by the carriers of the American Pacific Fleet, Yamamoto is permitted to use his plan to invade Midway Island. At Pearl Harbor, Captain Matt Garth is tasked with gauging the progress of decryption efforts at Station HYPO, headed by Commander Joseph Rochefort, which has partially cracked the Japanese Navy's JN-25 code, revealing that a major operation will soon take place at a location the Japanese refer to as "AF". Garth is asked by his son, naval aviator Ensign Tom Garth, to help free his girlfriend Haruko Sakura, an American-born daughter of Japanese immigrants, who has been interned with her parents, by calling in favors to have the charges against the family dropped. Yamamoto and his staff present their plans for Midway to the commanders who have been chosen to lead the attack, Admirals Nagumo and Yamaguchi of the Japanese carrier force and Admiral Kondo of the invasion force.

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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	a raid on tokyo abandon ship admiral nimitz admiral yamamoto air attack american pacific fleet american pilots b-25 bombers battle of the coral sea burn chūichi nagumo combat air patrol doolittle raid emperor hirohito imperial japan imperial japanese navy injured intern internment of japanese americans japanese archipelago japanese home islands jn-25 joseph rochefort kill kondo land midway island nagumo nobutake kondō north american b-25 mitchell pearl harbor station hypo tamon yamaguchi than the united states pacific fleet yamaguchi
musicBy	John Williams
producer	Walter Mirisch
productionCompany	The Mirisch Corporation
publisher	Universal Pictures
recordedAt	Los Angeles
theme	action drama epic war