Midway
Midway, released in the United Kingdom as Battle of Midway, is a 1976 American Technicolor war film that chronicles the June 1942 Battle of Midway, a turning point in World War II in the Pacific, directed by Jack Smight and produced by Walter Mirisch from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford. The film features an international cast of stars including Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Ed Nelson, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, James Shigeta, Pat Morita, John Fujioka, Robert Ito and Christina Kokubo.
Plot
The film follows two threads; one centered on the Japanese chief strategist Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, and the other on naval aviators Captain Matt Garth and his son, Ensign Thomas Garth.
Cast
- Biff McGuire
- Charlton Heston
- Christina Kokubo
- Christopher George
- Cliff Robertson
- Clyde Kusatsu
- Dabney Coleman
- 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
- Larry Csonka
- Larry Pennell
- Miiko Taka
- Mitchell Ryan
- Monte Markham
- Pat Morita
- Paul Frees
- Raymond A. Spruance
- Robert Ito
- Robert Mitchum
- Robert Wagner
- Robert Webber
- Sab Shimono
- Steve Kanaly
- Susan Sullivan
- Tom Selleck
- Toshirō Mifune
- William Halsey Jr.
More details
| author | Donald S. Sanford |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Oceania |
| director | Jack Smight |
| editor | Frank J. Urioste Robert Swink |
| events | aviation Pacific War World War II |
| genre | action drama historical |
| keywords | admiral aircraft carrier battle of midway battle of the coral sea chester nimitz create doolittle raid end imperial japan imperial japanese navy injured intern isoroku yamamoto japanese american internment kill midway island plan plane crash set up signals intelligence than the |
| musicBy | John Williams |
| producer | Walter Mirisch |
| productionCompany | The Mirisch Corporation |
| publisher | Universal Studios |
| recordedAt | Los Angeles |
| theme | action drama epic war |