Anno di produzione: 1976

Stato del film: Catalogo

Paese d'origine: USA
Location del set: Pensacola, Florida, USA Los Angeles, California, USA
Versioni alternative: - A television version exists, with additional cast and plot. It runs four hours with commercials. The main plot points are a Charlton Heston-Susan Sullivan romance and the Coral Sea battle (reffered to in the other version) is played out like the Midway battle. At the end of the TV version, Sullivan and Christine Kukobo are both shown waiting dockside.
Genere: Drama War
Lingue: English
Plot: The summer of 1942 brought Naval stalemate to the Pacific as the American and Japanese fleets stood at even numbers each waiting for the other to begin a renewed offensive. "Midway" tells the story of this historic June battle where a Japanese carrier force, in an attempt to occupy Midway island and lure the American fleet to destruction, was meet valiently by US forces operating off of three aircraft carriers and numerous escort ships. It was the first battle in which naval air power was extensivly used, and at its conclusion the Japanese Carrier force had been completly destroyed which lead the way for the US 1943 and 44 offensives which would eventually bring the Pacific War to a close. The battle of midway is done with captions to identify historical characters. Historically accurate in it's major points, a subplot of an American flyer who is engaged to a Hawiian girl of Japanese descent has been added. 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.
Visti censura internazionale: Norway:16 USA:PG Finland:K-16
Date di uscita internazionali: Dati tecnici: Suono: Durata: Movielink - film simili: missione segreta tora! tora! tora! rengo kantai shirei chôkan: yamamoto isoroku scialuppe a mare
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