Midway (1976)

132 min · Action, Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film

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Directors

Jack Smight

Cast

Charlton Heston, Edward Albert, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Robert Mitchum, Toshirô Mifune, Robert Wagner, Robert Webber

The story

On April 18, 1942, a daring and unexpected bomb raid on Tokyo stuns the Japanese. The commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Admiral Yamamoto, uses the threat posed to the Japanese home islands by the American Pacific Fleet to have his plan to invade Midway Island approved. At Pearl Harbor, Captain Matt Garth is tasked to gauge the progress of American intelligence gathering.

Catalogue themes and tags

1942, Autoexplosion, Battle Assignment, Decision, Defeat, Fighter Jet, Kampf, Militär, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Soldatin, Stroke of Fate, World War 2, japan, Action/Adventure, Action, Drama, War film

Genres

Action, Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film

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