Henry Fonda & Glenn Ford were Admirals Nimitz & Spruance in the 1976 movie about this crucial battle of World War II
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Midway (film) | Densho Encyclopedia  Epic war movie that tells the story of the Battle of Midway, the turning point of the ... Adm. Chester W. Nimitz (Henry Fonda) and his advisers on one side and Admiral ... The movie ends with Nimitz wondering if the Americans were really better ... the rights to use footage from prior American and Japanese World War II movies.
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Midway (film) - Wikipedia  Midway, released in the United Kingdom as Battle of Midway and in the US on video as The Battle of Midway, is a 1976 American Technicolor war film directed by ... The film chronicles the Battle of Midway, a turning point in World War II in the .... Interestingly, cast member Henry Fonda (Admiral Nimitz) had been one of the...
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Movie Review - - On Film, the Battle of 'Midway' Is Lost - NYTimes.com  Jun 19, 1976 ... The battlehistorysurvives while the movie blows up harmlessly in a ... recognizing them is like taking a World War II aircraft-identification test. ... A rebuilt Glenn Ford? ... doubt the leading role that carriers were to play in the Pacific war. ... though Henry Fonda as Admiral Nimitz shows a certain amount of...
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Midway - TCM.com  Spectacular re-creation of the World War II battle that turned the tide for the U.S. in ... The film Midway (1976) introduces the story of a fictional Captain Matt Garth, ... involved, chief among them Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (Henry Fonda). ... Mirisch then offered him the part of Rear Admiral Spruance, which went to Glenn Ford.
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Midway (1976) - IMDb  Action ... With Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford. ... the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. ... In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the ... September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important...
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Peter Fonda  TCM Classic Film Festival 2015 - Archive  His two Academy Award Nominations, Golden Globe Award wins and other accolades ... Since his legendary role as Captain America in Easy Rider (1969), Fonda has ... Fonda co-starred in Steven Soderbergh's 1997 film The Limey, which also ... for which he received rave reviews from the New York Critics, and won the...
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My favorite movies - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Ox-Bow Incident starring Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dana Andrews & Francis Ford were mistakenly hanged by a lynch mob in this 1943 film. Paleface is a...
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Casablanca - Bubby's Wav Archive  Classic film set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American ... Heinrich Strasser: Conrad Veidt, Signor Ferrari: Sydney Greenstreet, ... You'll excuse me, gentlemen, your business is politics, mine is running a saloon.
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Air Force One (1997) - Wikipedia  Air Force One is a 1997 American action-political thriller film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen. It is about a group of Russian terrorists that hijack Air Force One. The film stars Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman, as well as Glenn Close, ... Three weeks after the mission, U.S. President James Marshall (Harrison...
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Regarding Henry (1991) - IMDb  Drama  Henry is a lawyer who survives a shooting only to find he cannot remember anything. ... With Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Michael Haley, Stanley Swerdlow. ... Regarding Henry -- Henry Turner is a successful but ruthless New York lawyer who needs ..... The bullets hit Henry in the head and he is brain-damaged.
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The Caine Mutiny (1954) - Greatest Films  It was adapted for a Broadway stage play (by producer Charles Laughton) with Lloyd Nolan as Captain Queeg and Henry Fonda as Lt. Keefer, and later became a Robert Altman-directed TV movie The Caine Mutiny Court Martial in 1988, with Eric ... This was Humphrey Bogart's last great film role (he died three years later).
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Peter Fonda - Wikipedia  Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an American actor. He is the son of Henry ... Fonda was born in New York City, the only son of actor Henry Fonda and his .... In a later nod to his roles in The Wild Angels and Easy Rider, Fonda had a ... The film received two Academy Award nominations, and positive reviews...
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Voices Education Project - Charter for Compassion  Mar 7, 2010 ... A Yank in the RAF (1941), Director: Henry King, Running time: 98 minutes. ... acclaimed film about American GI's in Britain during World War II. ... WWII drama, based on the acclaimed Irwin Shaw novel, stars Marlon Brando as Christian, a German ski instructor who idealistically joins Hitler's army, fights in...
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Oscar Explorer  Jane Fonda had in mind to make a film about the Vietnam War inspired by her friendship with Ron Kovic, a paraplegic, Vietnam War Veteran, who she met in an antiwar rally. At that ... Jon Voight had been considered for the role of the husband, but after become involved with the movie he campaigned to play the paraplegic...
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Watch TCM - Mister Roberts (1955) - TCM.com  A naval officer longing for active duty clashes with his vainglorious captain. ... Mister Roberts (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Up All Night ... John Ford Director Mervyn LeRoy Director; Henry Fonda Lt. j.g. Douglas A. ... Superb comedy-drama with Fonda recreating his favorite stage role as restless officer on WW2 cargo ship who...
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John Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath' Gets an Amateur Treatment in ...  Nov 1, 2009 ... It's not just that John Steinbeck's 1939 novel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Or that John Ford's 1940 film, with Henry Fonda as Tom Joad and Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, is a multi-award-winning classic. ... Ma and Pa Joad (Wendy Barrie-Wilson and John Little) are staying with Uncle John...
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My Darling Clementine (1946) - The Criterion Collection  John Ford takes on the legend of the O.K. Corral shoot-out in this ... exceptionally well-constructed western, one of the director's very best films. ... Disc Features ... Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1947 starring Henry Fonda and Cathy Downs ... Mature play Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in Ford's classic 1946 western.
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Patton (1970) - IMDb  Biography  The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George ... With George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong. ... Francis Ford Coppola (screen story and screenplay), Edmund H. North .... a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway...
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Air Force One (film) - Wikipedia  Air Force One is a 1997 American action-political thriller film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen. It is about a group of Russian terrorists that hijack Air Force One. The film stars Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman, as well as Glenn Close, ... As a KC-10 tanker docks with Air Force One, Marshall helps to kill another...
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - IMDb  Drama  A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the ... With Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin. ... Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) .... Uncle John ... Henry Fonda plays the part of Tom Joad, a young member of the family who is released from prison...
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Greatest War Movies . 1940s-2 . The - Greatest Films  Roberto Rossellini's influential, low-budget documentary-like landmark film formally introduced ... It was one of the best and most realistic of all WWII combat films. ... Toward the close of the war, director Ford (after making wartime .... for old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles) who had reportedly been killed in Vienna in a car...