Midway
FILM SYNOPSIS
An expensive war epic, Midway emulates The Longest Day and Tora! Tora! Tora! in attempting to re-create a famous World War II battle from both the American and Japanese viewpoints. The 1942 battle of Midway was the turning point of the War in the Pacific; the Japanese invasion fleet was destroyed, and America's string of humiliating defeats was finally broken. Though the battle itself was sufficiently dramatic to fill two films, Midway also has plotline involving the mixed-race marriage between Ensign Garth (Edward Albert), son of Navy Captain Matt Garth (Charlton Heston), and Haruko Sakura (Christina Kokubo), a Hawaiian girl of Japanese descent. The real-life personages depicted herein include American Admirals Nimitz (Henry Fonda), Halsey (Robert Mitchum) and Spruance (Glenn Ford), and Japanese Admiral Yamamoto (Toshiro Mifune, his voice once again dubbed by Paul Frees, whom Mifune personally selected for the job).
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS & LESSON PLAN IDEAS:
This is a new project idea that I first heard about from Dr. Ben Milspaugh, Region Director of Aerospace Education - Rocky Mountain Region. If this sparks an interest with you and you have some ideas about how to use this film as part of a lesson plan, please send your ideas to me. bjackson@plata.com
VIDEO PURCHASE SITES
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