Midway

Name: Midway
Director: Jack Smight
Released: 1976-06-18

1976 film directed by Jack Smight

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Also known as Battle of Midway

Released: June 18, 1976
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, July 1, 1976
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, July 3, 1976
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Director: Jack Smight
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0074899/Retrieved 2016-05-18
2.interfilmes.com/filme_23961_Midway.A.Batalha.do.Pacifico-(Midway).htmlRetrieved 2016-05-18
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Screenwriter: Donald S. Sanford
Producer: Walter Mirisch
Cast: Charlton Heston
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1.interfilmes.com/filme_23961_Midway.A.Batalha.do.Pacifico-(Midway).htmlRetrieved 2016-05-18
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, Henry Fonda
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1.interfilmes.com/filme_23961_Midway.A.Batalha.do.Pacifico-(Midway).htmlRetrieved 2016-05-18
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, James Coburn
, Glenn Ford
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Runtime: 132 min
, 134 min
Genre: war film
, drama film
, action film
Country of origin: United States

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Midway is a 1976 American war film that chronicles the Battle of Midway, a turning point in the Pacific War of World War II. It was directed by Jack Smight from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford, and produced by Walter Mirisch.

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Director of photography: Harry Stradling
Main subject: Pacific War
aviation
World War II
Film editor: Robert Swink
Title: Midway
Color: color
black-and-white
Filmiroda rating: Category II rating certificate id: F/9086/J
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FSK film rating: FSK 16
Aspect ratio (W:H): 2.35:1
Filming location: Los Angeles
Narrative location: Insular Oceania
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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Different from: The Battle of Midway
Set in environment: aircraft carrier
Review score: 41%(October 25, 2024) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 17 critic review
5.9/10(October 7, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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Characters: Chester W. Nimitz
Raymond A. Spruance
Joseph Rochefort
William Halsey Jr.
Frank Jack Fletcher
Max Leslie
Miles Browning
C. Wade McClusky
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George H. Gay Jr.
John C. Waldron
Elliott Buckmaster
John Thach
USS Floyd B. Parks
Lance Edward Massey
Isoroku Yamamoto
Chūichi Nagumo
Ryūnosuke Kusaka
Tamon Yamaguchi
Boshirō Hosogaya
Nobutake Kondō
Minoru Genda
Taijirō Aoki
Distribution format: video on demand
Australian Classification: PG(since 1976) rating certificate id: 0040099F3E9B · distribution format: 35 mm film
MPA film rating: PG rating certificate id: 24454
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1.filmratings.com/Search?filmTitle=midway&x=0&y=0Retrieved 2025-03-23
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Set in period: World War II
20th century
1940s

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