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Midway (Widescreen) | 
| Director: Jack Smight
Actors: Edward Albert, Beeson Carroll, Clyde Kusatsu, Glenn Corbett, Larry Csonka
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 19.95
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Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 5645
Format: Collector's Edition, Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD21220D
ISBN: 0783255152
UPC: 025192122026
EAN: 9780783255156
ASIN: B00005N5S3
Theatrical Release Date: June 18, 1976
Release Date: September 2, 2003
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Six months after the Japanese destroyed the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Americans discovered the Japanese were planning to seize the Naval base at Midway Island--a perfect staging point for invading Hawaii or the mainland. Outnumbered four to one, the Americans won a surprise victory and shattered the backbone of the Japanese Imperial Navy. This 1976 film feels more like a history lesson than a drama, but World War II buffs will appreciate the attention to historical fact (especially the way in which fate and a few bad decisions turned the tide), as well as the generous use of actual battle footage. The all-star cast includes Robert Mitchum, James Coburn, and Cliff Robertson in cameos and a whole slew of familiar TV faces in supporting roles. Hal Holbrook is fun as an oddball intelligence officer. I--Geof Miller/I
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 Midway January 10, 2005
Luc Gravel (Quebec)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Je ne sais pas pourquoi Amazon.ca n'informe pas correctement l'acheteur francophone? Il inscrit anglais comme langue. Mais ce film en DVD dans zone 1, est en langue anglaise, francaise et espagnol!!!
 Midway - edited and no surround sound?????? January 10, 2005
Julian Janik (Ontario, Canada)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I saw the movie play in a theatre and I was greatly impressed.brI still enjoy the movie BUT! at the same time I am disappointed.pWhen it was released first on VHS and now on DVD I was greatly disappointed to see how much film footage has been cut out from the original theatrical release.brIn its original release MIDWAY ran for almost 2 hours 45 minutes.brOn VHS and DVD it runs for 2 hours 10 minutes. What happened to all the othe extra scenes??? brWhere is the Battle of the Coral Sea which was shown in the original movie?br brFurthermore they cut out the surround sound and made it Mono.brIt is ridiculous that the have a Special Feature on Surround Sound, but the DVD was made in Mono sound.pAnd they call this DVD a Special Collector's Edition??? brCome on Universal give us the full extended theatrical release along with 5.1 Surround Sound.
Poor sound, over-edited June 15, 2004
J. Crismore (Fishers, IN United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Midway as originally filmed is one of the great movies of all time. This DVD is not.pProblem #1: I have one of the best sound systems you can buy. The sound goes up and down and up and down on this DVD. You have to hold on to the remote just to be able to stay in the room with it because some combat footage is too loud, and other dramatic discussions are too low in volume.pProblem #2: My wife grew to hate this move somewhere around 1990 because on the veteran related holidays, a good 4+ hours were lost to watching this movie. Others claim that the original was over 5 hours. I'm very disappointed with the 2+ hour version. I want to see it all.pThe manufacturer needs to do something to get us the complete movie. They won't, though, becuase they have to redo the sound for the DVD, and that's expensive.
One of the better historical WWII movies May 30, 2004
Joseph H Pierre (Salem, OR USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
pA good friend of mine (and a contemporary) rode in the backseat of a dive bomber at the battle of midway. He's dead now, like three quarters of the men who fought in World War Two. Can you imagine riding backwards in a dive while the people below are doing their best to kill you? Unless you've been there, probably not.ppThis is, historically, one of the most accurate portrayals of the war. One critic complained that "the writing was weak. There was no suspense at all in the film." Perhaps there'd have been enough suspense if he'd been there, like Bill. But Bill survived the battle and died of old age, so I can't ask him about whether he felt any suspense, although we talked a lot about the battle of Midway.ppIn the film, they used top notch actors. For "Bull" Halsey they used Mitchum. Not a look alike, but of course Bull's dead, too, and Mitchum did a good job. Heston, of course, represented a fictional character (Matt Garth), but virtually all of the names of people in the film were real men who fought a real battle, and it was the turning point of the war. After Midway, we took a lot of lumps, but they were on the run from that point on.ppOf course Hollywood took some liberties, and since they used a lot of actual combat shots, some of the aircraft used were out of place (F6F "Hellcats" for F4F "Wildcats" several times, and the ditching scene where Ensign George Gay went in showed a "Hellcat" instead of the TBD Douglas torpedo bomber that he actually flew. And the shot of the "Hellcat" being torn apart on the carrier's island was well-known footage from the technicolor documentary, The Fighting Lady, which was shot on the old Enterprise during battle, with narration by Lt. Robert Montgomery (qv). Garth's (Heston's) fictional son was supposed to be flying it in the film, but it was an actual crash on board the "Big E", in an actual battle. "Hellcats" (F6F) were Grumman fighter planes (the big brother of the "Wildcat" (F4F) which was obsolescent when the war started, but in use at the Battle of Midway--as was the old Brewster "Buffalo") and the F6F never saw combat until late 1943 (on my birthday, as a matter of fact.) The battle of Midway was in June of 1942, six months after Pearl Harbor.ppIt helps when you know a little history. For instance, Ensign George Gay actually did ride out the battle in the water, after he ditched, and was debriefed personally by the commander-in-chief, pacific fleet (CINCPAC), Admiral Chester Nimitz. He was the only survivor of his torpedo squadron, VT-8 (torpedo squadron 8).ppAltogether, when you see this picture, you are watching history (as near as Hollywood will ever get to it), and many of the people who died to entertain today's movie audiences are named in the movie.ppSo, try to overlook the lack of a plot, at least in the battle sequences. History wrote them, not Hollywood script writers.ppJoseph (Joe) Pierre, USN (Ret)brbrauthor of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenancebrand other booksp
 All-Star Cast. Ultimate invasion of Midway Island. May 27, 2004
James McDonald (Lancaster, California)
This story is set in June 1942, six months after the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. Includes the all-star cast of: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Ed Nelson, Monte Markham, David Macklin, Christopher George, Robert Webber, Kevin Dobson, Edward Albert, Pat Morita, Dabney Coleman, Erik Estrada, Tom Selleck, Robert Ito, Steve Kanaly, Kip Niven, Clint Ritchie (ABC serial One Life To Live), Frank Parker (NBC serial Days Of Our Lives). The main cast can be seen acting with stock footage from THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO and some old Japanese war films. However, some actual wartime footage of the real combat is incorporated into this film. The actual war footage was filmed in color by navy photographers and by the cameras mounted on fighter planes in 1942.br Filmed in the same manner as EARTHQUAKE (1974) and ROLLERCOASTER (1977) and in Sensurround. Sensurround was a new sound system set up for specific films only that would make the sounds in the film seem realistic to you. The sound was balanced and came at you all around. You would hear the sound of an earthquake, riding a rollercoaster or being in the middle of a battle. Very few films were made in Sensurround and was only a gimmick in the 1970's. Small theaters benefited the most. Nowadays, we have sound systems in our own modern homes that come at us from behind and the sides. Disneyland rides use a sound system similar to Sensurround.br A special television version runs four hours with commercials. It includes new scenes NOT shown on video or in the theatres. It includes new scenes with an additional cast NOT seen in the original version, Susan Sullivan, Richard Sanders, Noel Conlon, Don Dolan, Richard Sarradet, Alec Smight, Miiko Taka and William Wellman Jr. The extended tv version includes a Charlton Heston-Susan Sullivan romance and the scenes of the Coral Sea battle is played out. At the end of the television extended version, Susan Sullivan and Christine Kukobo are both shown waiting at dockside.br I think this film was meant to be a tribute to those Americans who served.
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