Product: Midway (Collector's Edition) (1976)
Rating: 4.0
Okay, but could have been better
This film wasn't bad but could have been so much better without (a) the totally unnecessary love affair between Heston's son and the nisei woman, (b) the dubbing of the Japanese voices (should have used subtitles), (c) the reference to Admiral Nimitz "missing the flatlands." (The Admiral's home was not in "the flatlands." It is in the Texas hill country not far from where Lyndon Johnson was born and raised.) (d) a reference to Nimitz having been able to walk across the nearest lake during the "dry season." There are no wet and dry seasons in Texas. The incidence of rainfall is quite unpredictable, but this film was made in 1976 when the prevailing view of Texas was that of the whole state being like "the Last Picture Show" (not that it has changed that much...) Oh, yeah, Henry Fonda did NOT look that much like Admiral Nimitz.