Midway Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jack Smight
Genres: War
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An expensive war epic, Midway emulates The_Longest_Day and Tora!_Tora!_Tora! in attempting to re-create a famous World War II battle from both the American and Japanese viewpoints. The 1942 battle of Midway was the turning point of the War in the Pacific; the Japanese invasion fleet was destroyed, and America's string of humiliating defeats was finally broken. Though the battle itself was sufficiently dramatic to fill two films, Midway also has plotline involving the mixed-race relationship between Ensign Garth (Edward_Albert), son of Navy Captain Matt Garth (Charlton_Heston), and Haruko Sakura (Christina_Kokubo), a Hawaiian girl of Japanese descent. The real-life personages depicted herein include American Admirals Nimitz (Henry_Fonda), Halsey (Robert_Mitchum) and Spruance (Glenn_Ford), and Japanese Admiral Yamamoto (Toshiro_Mifune, his voice once again dubbed by Paul_Frees, whom Mifune personally selected for the job). For its original road show release, Midway was offered in the "Sensurround" process, which electronically shook and vibrated the audience's chairs during the battle sequences. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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