Product Details

• Actors: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook
• Directors: Jack Smight
• Writers: Donald S. Sanford
• Producers: Walter Mirisch
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: March 1, 1992
• Run Time: 132 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (219 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300181472
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,636 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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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. --Geof Miller

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Midway [VHS]

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306 of 310 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Midway - edited and no surround sound??????, January 9, 2005

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Julian Janik (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Midway (Collector's Edition) (DVD)

I saw the movie play in a theatre and I was greatly impressed.
I still enjoy the movie BUT! at the same time I am disappointed.

When 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.
In its original release MIDWAY ran for almost 2 hours 45 minutes.
On VHS and DVD it runs for 2 hours 10 minutes. What happened to all the othe extra scenes???
Where is the Battle of the Coral Sea which was shown in the original movie?

Furthermore they cut out the surround sound and made it Mono.
It is ridiculous that the have a Special Feature on Surround Sound, but the DVD was made in Mono sound.

And they call this DVD a Special Collector's Edition???
Come on Universal give us the full extended theatrical release along with 5.1 Surround Sound.

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars midway ,midway forgotten, January 6, 2006

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Will A. Nugent "wildwildwill" (Tampa,fla;the beautiful city by the bay) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Midway (Collector's Edition) (DVD)

Looks like they forgot to include the other hour and fifty minutes of the COLLECTORS EDITION !The sound is mono...yes mono!They forgot the movie portrays history!They also forgot that this is cinematic history as well.For years,I enjoyed watching this movie with my dad and brothers.It was one of the few subjects my dad and I could talk about for hours.Universal has short changed everyone looking to buy the four hour version.I hope they see the error of their ways by the poor sales of this version and begin to re-store the long sought after four hour version on dvd....they owe it to the veterans(of which,I am one),and history buffs.

47 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but missing a lot from original theatrical showing, September 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Midway (DVD)

This film is very close to what did take place in June of 42.The actors did a good job of telling the story.The dvd version left out all of the Coral Sea battle and Charlton Heston's Matt Garth love interest along with the meeting between the young Japanese pilot and admiral Nagomo about the war and how Japan might loose it.Why all of this could not have been included into this version of the movie I do not know.Overall the quality of the dvd was very good.The audio was very clear and the video sharp and clean.It seems as though they even managed to keep the low bass of the Sensearound audio track.I found this dvd video a lot better then my vhs copy in quality.Overall worth the price and worth seeing again.