Product: Midway (Collector's Edition) (1976)
Rating: 3.0
of interest mainly to celebrity watchers, not historians
And not even for fathers of little boys, who learn that the action sequences are too few and too confusing. I'm not an expert on naval aircraft, but even I could tell that planes taking off were not the ones in the air, the ones landing, etc. The actors--OK they're great ones like Henry Fonda, Charleton Heston, et al--do not evoke the times but look exactly what they are: actors in the 1970s pretending to be great men of the 1940s. Could they not even have cut their hair correctly? Would it have killed Robert Wagner, Heston, and the rest to get shorter haircuts? That alone ruined it for me.As a naval drama, the most telling critic is my six year old boy, who watched the black and white 1960 film 'Sink the Bismarck' over and over again: one viewing of Midway was enough for him.For history, of course, one should simply read Gordon Prange's Miracle at Midway.