| Midway | |
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| Directed by | Jack Smight |
| Written by | Donald S. Sanford |
| Produced by | Walter Mirisch |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Harry Stradling Jr. |
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| Music by | John Williams |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 131 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4 million |
| Box office | $100 million |
Midway, released in the United Kingdom as Battle of Midway, is a 1976 American war film that chronicles the Battle of Midway, a turning point in the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II. Directed by Jack Smight and produced by Walter Mirisch from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford,[2][3] the film starred Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda, supported by a large international cast of guest stars including James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Ed Nelson, Hal Holbrook, Robert Webber, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Pat Morita, Dabney Coleman, Erik Estrada and Tom Selleck.
The film was made using Technicolor, and its soundtrack used Sensurround to augment the physical sensation of engine noise, explosions, crashes and gunfire. Despite mixed reviews, particularly involving the use of stock footage and an unnecessary romance subplot, the music score by John Williams and the cinematography by Harry Stradling Jr. were highly regarded; as evidenced when Midway became the tenth most popular movie at the box office in 1976.
- ^ "MIDWAY (A)". British Board of Film Classification. April 23, 1976. Archived from the original on March 13, 2016. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
- ^ Variety film review; June 16, 1976, page 18.
- ^ Harrison, Alexa (February 15, 2011). "'Midway' writer Donald S. Sanford dies at 92". Variety. United States: Variety Media, LLC. (Penske Media Corporation). Archived from the original on April 12, 2020. Retrieved April 12, 2020.