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The film chronicles two battles in the Pacific during World War II, the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle
of Midway, which decided the war in the Pacific. The Japanese Imperial Navy had been undefeated until that time
and out-numbered the American naval forces by four to one. Their chief strategist Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
(played by Mifune) creates a complicated battle plan in order to ambush the few remaining American aircraft carriers
after the Coral Sea battle. Unknown to the Japanese, American signals intelligence has broken the Japanese Naval
encryption codes and know ahead of time that the ambush will take place at Midway Island. American Admiral Chester
Nimitz (played by Fonda), places a gigantic bet by sending his last remaining carriers to Midway before the Japanese
to set up his own ambush. The film accurately shows how intelligence, audacity, skill and luck won the day for the
Americans. A sub-plot involves an American fighter pilot and his Nisei Japanese American girlfriend, whose family
has been placed in internment during the war.
As with many "carrier films" produced around this time, the US Navy Essex class aircraft carrier USS Lexington
played the parts of both American and Japanese flattops for shipboard scenes. The Battle of Midway is done with
captions to identify historical characters. Historically accurate in it's major points. This is the battle in which
the previously undefeated Japanese fleet was stopped in a battle during which all damage was done by aircraft. The
opposing fleets never saw each other. The 1942 battles of the Coral Sea and Midway island are retold through the points
of view of both sides. When an audacious US air raid reaches Japan itself, Combined Fleet commander Isoroku Yamamoto
orders seaborne invasions of Port Moresby in the southwestern Pacific and of Midway Island near Hawaii, invasions that
Yamamoto hopes will smoke out the US Pacific Fleet for destruction before the full might of US war production can kick in.
The Japanese are supremely confident of victory over the vastly outnumbered US fleet, but they are unaware that US Navy
intelligence has cracked the Imperial Navy's codes, allowing the US to deploy aircraft carriers to maximum counteroffensive effect.
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Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Glenn Ford, James Coburn, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune,
Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Tom Selleck, Monte Markham, Erik Estrada, Larry Csonka,
Christopher George, Christina Kokubo, Glenn Corbett
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Director: Jack Smight
Producer: Walter Mirisch
Released - June 18, 1976
Length - 132 minutes
Music Composer: John Williams
Movie Distributed by Universal Studios
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