Midway

Year:

1976

Duration:

132 min

Genres:

Action | Drama | History | War

IMDB rate:

6.7

Director:

Jack Smight

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1976-06-18

Filming Locations: Naval Air Station Point Mugu, Point Mugu, California, USA

Earnings

Gross: $43,220,000 (USA) ( 1976)

Cast

Actor

Character

Glenn Ford

Midway

Glenn Corbett

David Macklin

Charlton Heston

Capt. Matt Garth

Henry Fonda

Adm. Chester W. Nimitz

James Coburn

Capt. Vinton Maddox

Hal Holbrook

Cmdr. Joseph Rochefort

Toshirô Mifune

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Robert Mitchum

Admiral William F. Halsey

Cliff Robertson

Commander Carl Jessop

Robert Wagner

Lieutenant Commander Ernest L. Blake

Robert Webber

Rear Admiral Frank J. 'Jack' Fletcher

Ed Nelson

Admiral Harry Pearson

James Shigeta

Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo

Christina Kokubo

Haruko Sakura

Monte Markham

Commander Max Leslie

Biff McGuire

Captain Miles Browning

Christopher George

Lieutenant Commander C. Wade McClusky

Kevin Dobson

Ensign George Gay

Gregory Walcott

Captain Elliott Buckmaster

Edward Albert

Lieutenant Tom Garth

Pat Morita

Rear Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka

John Fujioka

Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi

Dale Ishimoto

Vice Admiral Moshiro Hosogaya

Dabney Coleman

Captain Murray Arnold

Erik Estrada

Pilot 'Chili Bean' Ramos

Larry Pennell

Captain Cyril Simard

Clyde Kusatsu

Cmdr. Watanabe

Phillip R. Allen

Lt. Cmdr. John S. 'Jimmy' Thach

Tom Selleck

Aide to Capt. Cyril Simard

Sab Shimono

Lt. Tomonaga

Conrad Yama

Adm. Nobutake Kondo

Robert Ito

Cmdr. Minoru Genda

Yuki Shimoda

Officer Aboard Carrier Hiryu

Seth Sakai

Kurt Grayson

Alfie Wise

Dobbs

Beeson Carroll

John Bennett Perry

Steve Kanaly

Lt. Cmdr. Lance E. "Lem" Massey

Kip Niven

PBY Pilot

Dennis Rucker

Ens. Manson

Michael Richardson

James Ingersoll

Jeff Chamberlain

Sailor (uncredited)

Sam Chew Jr.

Guard (uncredited)

Noel Conlon

(TV version only) (uncredited)

Larry Csonka

Cmdr. Delaney (uncredited)

Jesse Dizon

Pilot (uncredited)

Don Dolan

(TV version only) (uncredited)

Paul Frees

Adm. Yamamoto

Jerry Fujikawa

Japanese Gentleman (uncredited)

Sean Garrison

Lt. Cmdr. Ken Cunningham (uncredited)

Ned Gill

Seaman Downes (uncredited)

Redmond Gleeson

Pvt. Dombrowski - Radio Man (uncredited)

Anthony Herrara

(uncredited)

David Hirokane

Lt. Shima (uncredited)

Jim Ishida

Pilot Lt. Takeo Koda (uncredited)

Lloyd Kino

Capt. Aoki (uncredited)

John Lupton

Officer Testing Electric Bomb Release (uncredited)

Sandy McPeak

Capt. Thomas (uncredited)

Steve Moriarty

Naval Officer / Aide (uncredited)

Chuck Morrell

Pvt. Andy (uncredited)

Richard Narita

Lt. Hashimoto (uncredited)

Yôsuke Natsuki

Japanese Pilot on Hiryu (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bennett Ohta

Captain Taijiro Aoki - Commander of Akagi (uncredited)

Frank Parker

Deke (uncredited)

Clint Ritchie

Lt. Cmdr. Charles Fenton (uncredited)

Mitchell Ryan

RAdm. Aubrey W. Fitch (uncredited)

Richard Sanders

(TV version only) (uncredited)

Richard Sarradet

(uncredited)

John Schuck

Wilson (uncredited)

Alec Smight

(TV version only) (uncredited)

Susan Sullivan

Ann (TV version only) (uncredited)

Miiko Taka

(TV version only) (uncredited)

William Wellman Jr.

(TV version only) (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

According to "The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise," by Edward P. Stafford, the real cause of the loss of almost all of the torpedo planes was caused by problems with radio frequencies. The torpedo planes lost contact with the fighters and dive bombers. As they attacked the Japanese carriers first, the Zeros came down to attack them. All attention was focused on the torpedo bombers. When the U.S. dive bombers arrived over the carriers, there was no air cover. Had the attack been synchronized, as planned, it is possible that the end results would have been quite different.

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Several action scenes, including the one were a Zero slams into the Yorktown's bridge, were taken from Away All Boats (1956).

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Almost all the on-board scenes were filmed on the USS Lexington. Lexington was an Essex-class "fast carrier" commissioned in February, 1943. Even some of the "Japanese carriers" shown in birds-eye views were actually Lexington (with the film reversed to put the island superstructure on the port side whereas all US carriers had them on the starboard side) Lexington, decommissioned in 1991, was the longest serving carrier in history. Lexington is now a museum ship at Corpus Christi, Texas.

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Goofs

Tom Garth manages to extinguish the cockpit fire and himself while wearing his pilot leather gloves, only to raise his burned arms in a dramatic gesture, but without gloves on his hands.

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The movie shows pilots flying SB2C "Helldiver" dive bombers, such as the one the elder Garth flies immediately before crashing into the end of the flight deck. The SB2C "Helldiver" did not enter service until toward the end of the war and was not available during the Battle of Midway.

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The scenes of antiaircraft fire on the Japanese ships shows American twin five-inch guns and quad 20-millimeter "pom pom" guns. This was because very little footage of Japanese ships survived the war and what did was shot on poor grades of film.

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Quotes

Captain Garth: Listen, Carl; I understand my boy, Tom, is in your squadron. How's he doing?

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Officer on Midway: Send this right away. Pvt. Dombrowski: Hey chief what's this?

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Cmdr. Carl Jessop: "Wait and see." 1919, the Marines were practicing dive-bombing off of Hati, right? "Well, premature, better wait and see." Well, we waited and the Germans showed us in '37 in Madrid.

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Faq

Q

Chicago Opening Happened When?

A

The hit Universal movie, Midway, opened in Chicago on Friday, June 18, 1976, in the Loop at the United Artists theatre, and four other area cinemas. An ad read: "In Sensurround--the sights, sounds and actual sensations of combat. So real you can feel it!" In Technicolor and Panavision, Rated PG___________________________

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