Product: Midway (Collector's Edition) (1976)
Rating: 4.0
Manages to Give the Scope of the Battle
This is an interesting concoction of reams of stock footage edited to newly filmed scenes of an all-star cast. It was all done in an effort to retell the Battle of Midway for American audiences in conjunction with our Bicentennial celebration. Director Jack Smight would have been more successful if he eliminated the fictional characters portrayed by Charlton Heston and Edward Albert Jr. and told it in semi-documentary style. The cast includes Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Glenn Ford, James Coburn, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Toshiro Mifune, Hal Holbrook, James Shigeta, Christopher George, Robert Webber, Monte Markham, Glenn Corbett, Dabney Coleman and Tom Selleck. John Williams composed the score. In the end it all seems to work and does not fail to entertain.To enhance this DVD, it could and should have been re-mastered in 5.1 digital stereo. I am sure the technology exists to re-master the sound and reproduce the Surround Sound digitally sending it to the Sub Woofer with minimal distortion.