Coming from Independence Day director Roland Emmerich, it’s a dutiful, uncomplicated retelling that nevertheless sticks closer to history than the 1976 film Midway did—never mind that the ...

The 1976 "Midway" looked a lot like World War ... James Coburn (38) and Robert Wagner (36) played the young officers in the film. "Midway" the movie was released 34 years after the Battle of ...

Even that western-most tip of the United States known as the Aleutian Islands.”Finding out where Japan might strike next was ...

Samuel J. Cox, director of the Naval History and Heritage Command and the Navy's liaison for the film, says the movie is more accurate than 1976's "Midway" starring Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda.

The film’s drama is B-movie basic ... Yet will anyone want to see “Midway”? The 1976 version was a hit, but it may be that this movie is too serious for the popcorn horde, and not good ...

About those action scenes: In the 1976 film, most of those scenes were either ... looking like the American History Channel account of Midway, only with better CGI. The thing that stands out ...

This new movie has been cast by its creators as an attempt to restore cinematic dignity to the historic battle; another Hollywood film called Midway came out in 1976, but has been criticized for ...

Midway is perhaps best remembered thanks to two major motion pictures: the first, released in 1976, starred Charlton ... At the end of the earlier film, Fonda, playing Adm. Chester Nimitz, the ...

Although the 1976 “Midway” boasted many stars ... are at the heart of “Midway,” the film also finds the space to include both submarine action and the raid on Tokyo led by Army Lt.

Bona will distribute the film in China and retains worldwide ... The story of the Battle of Midway was the subject of Universal’s 1976 epic “Midway,” starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda ...