Midway

UPC: 025192122026

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Suitable for Children, Adult Language, War Violence]

Summary: 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

Category: War

Features: Original featurette
Documentary featuring new interviews with producer Walter Mirisch, director Jack Smight, editor Frank J. Urioste, and Charlton Heston
Featurette on composer John Williams
Featurette on Sensurround Sound
Production photographs and portraits with score by John Williams
Additional scenes exclusively shot for the network television version
Theatrical trailer
Production notes
Cast and filmmakers

Midway

Format: DVD

Release Date: 10/30/2001

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: 5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, 1 USA & territories, Canada

Runtime: 132 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 -- Widescreen
0. Scenes
1. Main Titles [5:21]
2. Something's Stirring [4:02]
3. Tom's Surprise [7:00]
4. Hot Information [9:56]
5. An Enemy Ruse? [5:23]
6. Haruko [5:47]
7. Nimitz's Team [4:19]
8. Kissing the Enemy [11:57]
9. The Air Search [13:10]
10. The First Wave [6:35]
11. Attack on Midway Island [16:58]
12. The Americans Attack [11:29]
13. Air Strike [3:12]
14. Bandits [7:17]
15. The Japanese Strike Back [6:07]
16. Victory [5:48]
17. Crash Landing [2:03]
18. End Titles [2:41]

Cast and Crew: Steve Kanaly  Actor 
Kip Niven  Actor 
Sab Shimono  Actor 
Edward Albert  Actor 
John Fujioka  Actor 
John Bennett Perry  Actor 
Cliff Robertson  Actor 
Clyde Kusatsu  Actor 
Seth Sakai  Actor 
Alfie Wise  Actor 
Phillip Richard Allen  Actor 
Larry Csonka  Actor 
Dale Ishimoto  Actor 
Noriyuki "Pat" Morita  Actor 
James Shigeta  Actor 
Dabney Coleman  Actor 
Kurt Grayson  Actor 
Erik Estrada  Actor 
Robert Ito  Actor 
Dennis Rucker  Actor 
Robert Webber  Actor 
David Macklin  Actor 
Lloyd Kino  Actor 
Tom Selleck  Actor 
Conrad Yama  Actor 
Beeson Carroll  Actor 
Christopher George  Actor 
Biff McGuire  Actor 
Ed Nelson  Actor 
Yuki Shimoda  Actor 
Michael Richardson  Actor 
James Ingersoll  Actor 
Bennett Ohta  Actor 
Walter Mirisch  Producer 
Jack Smight  Director 
John Williams  Composer (Music Score) 
Donald S. Sanford  Screenwriter 
Charlton Heston  Actor 
Henry Fonda  Actor 
James Coburn  Actor 
Glenn Ford  Actor 
Hal Holbrook  Actor 
Toshiro Mifune  Actor 
Robert Mitchum  Actor 
Robert Wagner  Actor 
Christina Kokubo  Actor 
Monte Markham  Actor 
Kevin Dobson  Actor 
Glenn Corbett  Actor 
Gregory Walcott  Actor 

Country: USA