Midway

...(played by Fonda), plays a desperate gamble by sending his last remaining carriers to Midway before the Japanese to set up his own ambush. The film depicts the battle as a great American victory brought about by a combination of...

In this article: Battle of Midway, Pearl Harbor, World War II, Yorktown, California, Toshiro Mifune, U.S. Navy, and Henry Fonda

Charlton Heston described Guillermin as an "imaginative and skillful director" with an "irascible streak". Before filming started on Midway , producer Walter Mirisch replaced Guillermin with Jack Smight after Guillermin requested more time...

In this article: John Guillermin, Ralph E. Winters, The Blue Max, King Kong, London, Cambridge University, and Royal Air Force

movie poster for the American theatrical release of the film "Midway" (1976) This image is being used to illustrate the article on the movie in question (Midway (film)) and is used for informational or educational purposes only. This...

...with his cousins on his ancestral home, Midway Plantation. The city grew up around Midway though, destroying the once-bucolic setting. Moving Midway is a documentary about the current owner's decision to move Midway to a new location,...

In this article: Godfrey Cheshire, NPR, and North Carolina

...marathon of movies celebrating war heroes. The former prisoner of war and Republican presidential candidate will introduce movies like "Midway," "Patton," "The Longest Day," "Hamburger Hill," "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and "Battle of the...

In this article: John McCain, All rights reserved, E mail, Memorial Day weekend, Hanoi, NEW YORK, Arizona, and Associated Press

Screenshot from the film Midway ''. For this scene the ''"Midway" editors used stock footage from the Japanese movie "太平洋风暴 Hawai Middouei daikaikusen: Taiheiyo no arashi" from 1960 (US title: "Storm Over the Pacific"). The screenshot is...

In this article: Storm Over the Pacific and US

In a press release trumpeting the surprisingly successful sales of Midway's Mortal Kombat Vs DC Universe, the company revealed that it has already begun work on the next entry in the long-running Mortal Kombat game series. Since its...

In this article: Mortal Kombat and Ed Boon

By Jim Reilly, 1:40 PM on Fri Nov 28 2008, 4,469 views Midway's Wheelman creative director Simon Woodroffe offered up some details about the company's future lineup of games yesterday. In an interview with Videogamer.com, Woodroffe cites...

In this article: Gears 2 and God of War 3

..."Ben-Hur" elevated Heston to the top of Hollywood's A-list. His later films included "Earthquake," "El Cid," "The Three Musketeers," "Midway" and "Soylent Green." In recent years, Heston drew as much publicity for his crusades as for...

In this article: Charlton Heston, National Rifle Association, Michael Moore, Moses, Ben-Hur, Shirley Jones, Oscars, Planet of the Apes, The Ten Commandments, and Nancy Reagan

Many were contemporary: "The Private War of Major Benson," "Soylent Green," "Airport 1975," "Earthquake," "Two Minute Warning," Midway," etc. Some of Heston's movies were bombs, but he continued a heavy schedule. He had nothing but...

In this article: Charlton Heston, Moses, Jack Lemmon, God, Prospero, Alzheimer's disease, The Tempest, William Shakespeare, The Private War of Major Benson, and National Rifle Association