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Midway (18-Jun-1976)

Director: Jack Smight

Writer: Donald S. Sanford

Music: John Williams

Producer: Walter Mirisch

Keywords: Action/Adventure, WWII, Pacific Theater

Docudrama-style dramatization of the Battle of Midway, performed by an all-star cast. Unfortunately burdened with a superfluous subplot in which Charlton Heston helps the interred family of his son's Japanese girlfriend. Much stock battle footage and comically bad models. Despite the flaws, a reasonable accurate telling of the turning point in the Pacific war.

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CAST

Starring
Charlton Heston   ...   Capt. Matt Garth
Henry Fonda   ...   Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
Guest Stars
James Coburn   ...   Capt. Vinton Maddox
Glenn Ford   ...   Rear Adm. Raymond A. Spruance
Hal Holbrook   ...   Cmdr. Joseph Rochefort
Toshirô Mifune   ...   Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto
Robert Mitchum   ...   Adm. William F. Halsey
Cliff Robertson   ...   Cmdr. Carl Jessop
Robert Wagner   ...   Lt. Cmdr. Ernest L. Blake
Co-Starring
Robert Webber   ...   Rear Adm. Frank J. "Jack" Fletcher
Ed Nelson   ...   Adm. Harry Pearson
James Shigeta   ...   Vice Adm. Chuichi Nagumo
Christina Kokubo   ...   Haruko Sakura
Monte Markham   ...   Cmdr. Max Leslie
Biff McGuire   ...   Capt. Miles Browning
Christopher George   ...   Lt. Cmdr. C. Wade McClusky
Kevin Dobson   ...   Ens. George Gay
Glenn Corbett   ...   Lt. Cmdr. John Waldron
Gregory Walcott   ...   Capt. Elliott Buckmaster
and
Edward Albert   ...   Lt. Tom Garth
With
Pat Morita   ...   Rear Adm. Kusaka
John Fujioka   ...   Rear Adm. Yamaguchi
Dale Ishimoto   ...   Vice Adm. Hosogaya
Dabney Coleman   ...   Capt. Murray Arnold
Erik Estrada   ...   Chili Bean
Larry Pennell   ...   Capt. Simard
Clyde Kusatsu   ...   Cmdr. Watanabe
Phillip R. Allen   ...   Lt. Cmdr. Thach
Tom Selleck   ...   Aide to Capt. Simard
Sab Shimono   ...   Lt. Tomonaga
Conrad Yama   ...   Adm. Kondo
Robert Ito   ...  
Yuki Shimoda   ...  
Seth Sakai   ...  
Kurt Grayson   ...  
Alfie Wise   ...  
Beeson Carroll   ...  
John Bennett Perry   ...  
Steve Kanaly   ...   Lt. Cmdr. Massey
Kip Niven   ...  
Dennis Rucker   ...  
Michael Richardson   ...  
James Ingersoll   ...  

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