My grandfather's father, 1915 to 1942, was a torpedo pilot for the aircraft carrier Kaga, but was killed by a dive bomber. It's a very disappointing history for our family. Now I want to eradicate the Chinese carrier, not the US Navy.
Your great grandfather likely was an honorable man. You need not apologize for him. These guys were warriors. Both sides. He was on the bad side in that war. But he was not some deficient reject guard torturing prisoners for no reason. He was a fighter.
One of the things that people forget is that the Midway soundtrack had a direct influence on the greatest movie soundtrack of all-time, Star Wars Episode IV. If you listen to both of them, you hear the similarities, and this makes sense because John Williams did them at about the same time.
My Dad was at Midway with the 6th Defense Battalion Stationed at MIDWAY. John Ford and his Motion Picture Crew took pictures of the Attack, and Dad was in the Film. How about that. Dad was a Sgt. at the time. He maned a 30 Cal. Machine Gun. Dad passed away 2007. He Retired at the Rank of Sgt\Maj. He Served from 1939 - 1974. He was a 5 War Marine. Dad started the Paper Work on me in 1969. I am a 5th Generation Marine. He is Truly Missed, enough said. Semper Fidelis, The Gunny Gy\Sgt. K.R. Dalton USMC Med. Ret.
I remember watching this movie on a Friday, or Saturday night, at my local cinema during the mid 1970s. It was supposed to be in surround sound but the picture theatre had an outdated speaker system. But I enjoyed the movie. Those were the good old days for me. Double features too. You can tell this is a John Williams score.
I have loved this movie since high school in the 80's when I first saw it. I own the sound track now of Cd which I also really enjoy and listen to it while I work on my Navy ship models.
My grandfather's father, 1915 to 1942, was a torpedo pilot for the aircraft carrier Kaga, but was killed by a dive bomber. It's a very disappointing history for our family. Now I want to eradicate the Chinese carrier, not the US Navy.
@@alberthaag8890 My father insists on eating graham crackers whenever he watches this movie. Usually he doesn't remember to get them out until that scene comes up.
I've always loved this soundtrack. Churchill (who's accolodes appear at the end of the movie) always knew we could fight. He had read every battle of our civil war from the first shot to the last but after Midway the British people knew it too and those enslaved in Europe and the Pacific knew they now had a big, powerful ally, relentless and determined to win. I mean no disrespect to the courage of the British at El Alamain or the Russians at Stalingrad but it was at Midway that the AMERICANS were outnumbered, outgunned and still won at a time (June, 1942) when allied victories still weren't all that common with the obvious exceptions of the Battle of Britain and the Soviet counteroffensive one day before Pearl Harbor. When we we're bombed Churchill himself admitted that for the first time in years he slept soundly because he now knew the war was won. Even Yammamato lamented that he had awakened a sleeping giant. 6 months later his words became prophesy.
In the first 6 to 12 months of war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success-Yamamoto 1940 Almost 6 months to the day after Pearl Harbor he was proven correct.
¿Coraje británico en El Alamein cuando Rommel siempre estuvo en inferioridad de condiciones? Típico de los británicos jugar a los héroes una vez finalizada la guerra y recurrir a Hollywood para hacérnoslo creer.
@@albertomanfredi3675 The British win the battle with good coordination from Montgomery and support from the Australian and New Zealand troops. The British tanks outmatched the Italians throughout 1941 and early 1942. The reason Nazi Germany entered the African front was to save Italy's forces after they were pushed back from Egypt and deep into Libya. This proves Britain's strength on just one front of World War 2 with them serving on every front of the War, even supplying the Soviets with weapons and vehicles against the Germans during operation Barbarossa. Are you now saying that the British failed to have the spirit of fighting? If that's so, I wonder why they won the Battle of Britain.
@@bricklingtonlego Los británicos siempre supieron explotar muy bien sus acciones, magnificándolas y sobedimensionándolas. La batalla de Gran Bretaña la ganaron en primer lugar, porque Hitler jamás tuvo intención de invadir las islas pues las quería como aliadas (solo te recuerdo Dunkerque donde podía haber aniquilado a los británicos en fuga y no lo hizo). Gran Bretaña venía recibiendo ayuda de Estados Unidos desde comienzos de 1940 y no estuvo nunca en condiciones de enviar una sola bala a Rusia. Ese es otro mito, el de la provisión de armamento a los rusos. Los alemanes invadieron Rusia en junio de 1941, recién en octubre Roosevelt envió un emisario para acordar con Stalin la fijación del frente en determinadas coordenadas. En base a ello, recién entonces USA comenzaría a enviar equipo. Eso se logró pero con el ataque a Pearl Harbour el 7 de diciembre de ese mismo año, el suministro se cortó. La ayuda que recibió Rusia de USA fue insignificante y de Gran Bretaña menos. Los británicos siempre subidos a caballo de algún aliado poderoso para contar su guerra.
I remember watching this movie as a kid, around 8 or 9 years old, and loved it. Years later when I saw people were saying it wasn't a good movie, I realized that I had just automatically filtered out all the romance and father/son stuff and was just paying to the military stuff, which I think it actually did a very good job presenting as far as a movie goes.
I have VHS & DVD versions of this film both with different end themes . Battle of Briton film also has two different end themes.the opening of the film is awesome (borrowing from Thirty seconds over Tokyo ) blended with that powerful opening music & all star cast its a gr8 film!
Actually its possible that credit might go to Tora Tora Tora, which was actually a joint US/Japanese production, with the Japanese filming their segments and the whole being edited together for the final film.
Well, in germany we are still waiting for a movie showing the conflict between allies and german forces in a more realistic way. All films about true and horrible german war crimes are made.
Thor God of Thunder I stand corrected. You are right. Serves me right for posting in haste. Just prior to posting I had viewed a clip of the Ploesti raid where we used B-24's so that was the source of my error. Thanks for pointing it out.
john dates No problem. However you have to admit that the Japanese should actually count themselves lucky. Because well the Soviets didn't want the United States to base B-17s out from like Vladivostok or something. Otherwise we would have just carpet bombed Tokyo.
Interesting thing, international agreements, even in times of war. The Soviets needed a non-agression pact badly with Japan in order to focus on repelling Germany and Hitler's allies. So even though we were allied in Europe against the Axis, the Soviets were forced due to this agreement to detain the Doolitle Raiders who landed in the USSR. Fun fact: it was a long held belief that sympathetic Russian civilians helped the aviators escape and make it to Iran (then occupied by the big 3 allied powers) however with the collapse of the Soviet Union declassified materials reveal that the "civilians" were NKVD agents tasked with sending the US airmen home and making it look like an escape so as not to anger Japan, if Japanese spies learned of this.
Without John Williams there no Star Wars, Jaws, close encounters. I am sir I missed many. I never knew he scored this movie. I almost forgot Superman. I wake up to the planet krypton everyday.
Wow, thanks Fredrick if you're still there. Came here from "The Cowboys". Many thanks for your efforts. All the folks that don't like copy-catting: yes, yes, but they all do. The Brits: Holst, Vaughn Williams (5th Symph), William Walton, Eric Korngold; Americans: Howard Hanson, Max Steiner, Elmer (& Leonard) Bernstein, etc. I was mad at 1st too. In the end, one needs to be thankful music like this exists. I know the big theme @ 8:00 min is the Throne Room from Star Wars and like it anyway. The military march @ 12:00 could be The Bridge at Remaggen, @ ~4:00 the drop to a lower key and broaden theme w/thick harmony & counterpoint-William Walton, Henry V w/ Laurence Olivier, 1944. Doesn't matter. I'm thankful John Williams, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, etc have moved our hearts. Thanks for the posting Fredrick.
Beautiful score!!! If you listen closely, you can hear a little bit of star wars a new hope in there! This was back in the day when music was made with feeling! Now every movie seems to have a rap song attached to it! Smfh
hey there! yes, the score include "the men of the yourktown march" (here a picture of the back cover, taken from the website of the label which presented this cd, varese sarabande: varesesarabande. com/media/04/a20791a132dfd5f1a33bd5_l.jpg "TMFTYM"was also composed by maestro williams. i saw a few days ago a version of the film where the film closed with the typical "end credits" theme. the "TMFTYM" was completely not in the film. best wishes! :-)
Saw Midway, Earthquake and Battlestr in Sensurround. Only saw rollercoaster on tv. I believe these were the only 4. Battlestar was amazing in sensurround.
I'm sure critics on both sides will have their own opinions. This version of the movie wasn't as historically accurate as the new 2019 version, but the score of this version was amazing. It's John Williams. Any John Williams score is amazing, even if the movie is so-so.
John Williams played piano on Goldsmith scores don’t forget…. And the Newmans! A lot of crossover ❤️ Williams also played piano on Goldsmith's City of Fear. And on many more film scores: Funny Face (1957); music by George Gershwin, musical dírection by Adolph Deutsch; Bell, Book and Candle (1958); George Duning; South Pacific (1958), music by Richard Rodgers, musicla direction by Alfred Newman; Porgy and Bess (1959), musical direction by André Previn, music by George Gershwin; Some Like It Hot (1959), Adolph Deutsch; Peter Gunn (1959, tv series), Henry Mancini; Johnny Stacatto (1959, tv series), Elmer Bernstein; City of Fear (1959), Jerry Goldsmith; The Apartment (1960), Adolph Deutsch; Studs Lonigan (1960), Jerry Goldsmith; West Side Story (1961), musical direction by Johnny Green, music by Leonard Bernstein; Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962), Franz Waxman
+john dates GREAT SOUNDTRACK! About 27 years ago, I actually met Ensign George Gay...sole survivor of Torpedo 8. Ensign Gay was in the water and witnessed the SBD's "hits" on IJN's carriers Soryu, Kaga and Akagi.
1) US Ships under attack (Music by John Williams) 2) US Navy falls into the water (Music by John Williams) 3) Sharks arrive (Music by John Williams...)
i am confused....saw the movie in 1976....end title was a recapitulation as a march of the original theme...this music seems different...did maestro williams change it afterwards...i liked the original ending music
The Longer Version, Where they Include the Battle of the Coral Sea is the Best ! A Quick but Touching Scene,Is Where the Naval. Communication People On Corregidor, Issue a " WE ARE SIGNING OFF" Message in the Clear, Before They Surrender, and the US Forces Receive It !
Finally! If I may ask, how did you get this? I have the re-mastered 'Midway' soundtrack from 1998 by the Royal Scottish Orchestra but have always wanted the true original soundtrack.
The film was very good, the score great, but it was also a "gimmick" picture. Here's why: Universal had come up with something called "Sensurround" which was a low-frequency installation in theaters that would cause rumbling and a physical pressure wave on the audience--it was first used with the movie "Earthquake" to simulate the FEEL of a quake when it happened in the movie. I remember going to see it firstrun at the Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard and they had strung big cargo nets across the ornate ceiling ostensibly to keep pieces of it from falling down on the audience due to the Sensurround effects (probably more hype and psychological than actual!) But THEN what do you do with this expensive gimmick? Well, the next movie they tried it with was "Midway" and when, for example, the planes warmed up their engines on the carrier decks you "felt" the vibrations--ditto the bombs bursting. Next, they used it for the rumbles and explosions in "Rollercoaster!" Remember, this was before THX sound. Sensurround was developed by Cerwin-Vega, a speaker company, with Universal. It basically disappeared after Rollercoaster except for some re-edited theatrical releases of Battlestar Galactica TV episodes and use in themepark attractions at Universal Studios. SOmetimes patrons in adjoining theaters as megaplexes grew complained of the effect coming through the walls!
I remember. For this soundsystem they show Midway, Earthquake and Battlestar Galactica in germany in 1979 i think, i remember well the big big speakers and boxes in the cinema. And it works well in the stomach. Can you imagine what sensourround means on an Avenger movie?
Everyone keeps going on about this score, but I'd like to know does the score include "Men of The Yorktown March"? When I saw this movie on late-night TV back in the 1980's, that was the music track that the movie closed with. I've always associated the 'Men of The Yorktown march' with the movie.
Walter D Wormack: There are actually two versions of the closing music today. One is after the shortend version of the movie which leaves out Charlton Heston's personal relationship with the woman. The other of course is after the longer version.
hey there! this soundtrack came out at the end of 2011 by the same label of the rerecording, varése sarabande. buy it here (varesesarabande com): /servlet/the-956/Midway/Detail all the best and good luck! Fred
gaz lyno. To us maybe but not to Admiral Yammamoto. He told the Japanese High Command that he could run rampant for about 6 months and that then the American strength would begin to tell. Sort of a prophet wasn't he? He also told them that by attacking us they would awake a sleeping giant.
Yes, I know we won.. I was trying to bring some perspective to the poster that was so excited by the victory. The Japanese made a series of mistakes that cost them a battle they should have won.
Unfortunately, the Japanese were dependent on some of our technology, and that ended after Pearl Harbor. They never got radar. I believe they sailed home after Pearl Harbor too instead of controlling the Pacific properly. The biggest mistake was obviously attacking in the first place. They should have used spies in the US to gauge the public's interest in a fight after they attacked some of our allies in Asia.
I seen the movie Midway on Tuesday, July 12,1976 at the Harbor Drive In in National City, CA. I was in the Navy stationed aboard the USS Blue Ridge LCC-19 in San Diego. Great movie, great acting, great cast. Very unfortunately it was way too far underrated while that Patton movie and that POS Catch 22 were way too far overrated for movies on Worlds War II that were made in the 1970’s.
My grandfather's father, 1915 to 1942, was a torpedo pilot for the aircraft carrier Kaga, but was killed by a dive bomber. It's a very disappointing history for our family. Now I want to eradicate the Chinese carrier, not the US Navy.
Don’t be a dumb sock puppet…
Your great grandfather likely was an honorable man. You need not apologize for him. These guys were warriors. Both sides. He was on the bad side in that war. But he was not some deficient reject guard torturing prisoners for no reason. He was a fighter.
One of the things that people forget is that the Midway soundtrack had a direct influence on the greatest movie soundtrack of all-time, Star Wars Episode IV. If you listen to both of them, you hear the similarities, and this makes sense because John Williams did them at about the same time.
My Dad was at Midway with the 6th Defense Battalion Stationed at MIDWAY. John Ford and his Motion Picture Crew took pictures of the Attack, and Dad was in the Film. How about that. Dad was a Sgt. at the time. He maned a 30 Cal. Machine Gun.
Dad passed away 2007. He Retired at the Rank of Sgt\Maj. He Served from 1939 - 1974. He was a 5 War Marine. Dad started the Paper Work on me in 1969. I am a 5th Generation Marine. He is Truly Missed, enough said.
Semper Fidelis,
The Gunny
Gy\Sgt. K.R. Dalton USMC Med. Ret.
Thanks to you, your Father, and your family for you service. It's men like you who make our country great.
My great uncle was one of the Kamakazi Pilot who may have trying to strike your dad but died.I am so sorry.
thank you all
Semper Fi, Gunny Dalton from a sailor in the Seabees, proud to have served alongside Marines 🇺🇸🛠⚓
CMCN Daman Yocum USNR 2007-2010
Did your father convey many personal observations of the battle from his POV?
Always loved those 70s John Williams scores. Something about them that i like. Like he was really finding his style and sound.
This movie showed great honor by portraying the heroic efforts of Torpedo 8. Well done.
Who cares, Fonda, Heston, etc....it is a great movie with a fantastic score...enjoy the music, movie and the world we live in, in the now
I remember watching this movie on a Friday, or Saturday night, at my local cinema during the mid 1970s. It was supposed to be in surround sound but the picture theatre had an outdated speaker system. But I enjoyed the movie. Those were the good old days for me. Double features too.
You can tell this is a John Williams score.
I have loved this movie since high school in the 80's when I first saw it. I own the sound track now of Cd which I also really enjoy and listen to it while I work on my Navy ship models.
I saw this in the theatres when I was seven...I remember it was advertised as being in "SENSURROUND" :)
I remember too (in germany), must been in 1978 or 79. What a sound.
I saw this when I was 9, in.1977.
"I want that 4th carrier!"
"How many of those can you eat!??"
My grandfather's father, 1915 to 1942, was a torpedo pilot for the aircraft carrier Kaga, but was killed by a dive bomber. It's a very disappointing history for our family. Now I want to eradicate the Chinese carrier, not the US Navy.
@@alberthaag8890 Strawberry 6 ?
@@alberthaag8890 My father insists on eating graham crackers whenever he watches this movie. Usually he doesn't remember to get them out until that scene comes up.
I spent hours trying to find the original soundtrack. Big thanks!
I spent YEARS trying to find this, as they NEVER released it on LP at the time!
I've always loved this soundtrack. Churchill (who's accolodes appear at the end of the movie) always knew we could fight. He had read every battle of our civil war from the first shot to the last but after Midway the British people knew it too and those enslaved in Europe and the Pacific knew they now had a big, powerful ally, relentless and determined to win. I mean no disrespect to the courage of the British at El Alamain or the Russians at Stalingrad but it was at Midway that the AMERICANS were outnumbered, outgunned and still won at a time (June, 1942) when allied victories still weren't all that common with the obvious exceptions of the Battle of Britain and the Soviet counteroffensive one day before Pearl Harbor. When we we're bombed Churchill himself admitted that for the first time in years he slept soundly because he now knew the war was won. Even Yammamato lamented that he had awakened a sleeping giant. 6 months later his words became prophesy.
In the first 6 to 12 months of war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success-Yamamoto 1940
Almost 6 months to the day after Pearl Harbor he was proven correct.
¿Coraje británico en El Alamein cuando Rommel siempre estuvo en inferioridad de condiciones? Típico de los británicos jugar a los héroes una vez finalizada la guerra y recurrir a Hollywood para hacérnoslo creer.
@@albertomanfredi3675 The British win the battle with good coordination from Montgomery and support from the Australian and New Zealand troops. The British tanks outmatched the Italians throughout 1941 and early 1942. The reason Nazi Germany entered the African front was to save Italy's forces after they were pushed back from Egypt and deep into Libya. This proves Britain's strength on just one front of World War 2 with them serving on every front of the War, even supplying the Soviets with weapons and vehicles against the Germans during operation Barbarossa. Are you now saying that the British failed to have the spirit of fighting? If that's so, I wonder why they won the Battle of Britain.
@@bricklingtonlego Los británicos siempre supieron explotar muy bien sus acciones, magnificándolas y sobedimensionándolas. La batalla de Gran Bretaña la ganaron en primer lugar, porque Hitler jamás tuvo intención de invadir las islas pues las quería como aliadas (solo te recuerdo Dunkerque donde podía haber aniquilado a los británicos en fuga y no lo hizo). Gran Bretaña venía recibiendo ayuda de Estados Unidos desde comienzos de 1940 y no estuvo nunca en condiciones de enviar una sola bala a Rusia. Ese es otro mito, el de la provisión de armamento a los rusos. Los alemanes invadieron Rusia en junio de 1941, recién en octubre Roosevelt envió un emisario para acordar con Stalin la fijación del frente en determinadas coordenadas. En base a ello, recién entonces USA comenzaría a enviar equipo. Eso se logró pero con el ataque a Pearl Harbour el 7 de diciembre de ese mismo año, el suministro se cortó. La ayuda que recibió Rusia de USA fue insignificante y de Gran Bretaña menos. Los británicos siempre subidos a caballo de algún aliado poderoso para contar su guerra.
different end title music from the original theatrical release...doesnt work for me
Movie was epic actors were epic story was epicly epic the music was epic. I loved this movie piece played i can see the film in my head!
Didn't know this JW score yet! Thnx for posting!!
Absolutely perfect, fantastic, marvelous.
great csore by John Williams, thanks
Thanks Frederik! Ordered and already on the way. :)
I remember watching this movie as a kid, around 8 or 9 years old, and loved it. Years later when I saw people were saying it wasn't a good movie, I realized that I had just automatically filtered out all the romance and father/son stuff and was just paying to the military stuff, which I think it actually did a very good job presenting as far as a movie goes.
it is a really good movie. especially compared to that horrible remake with the same name.
I have VHS & DVD versions of this film both with different end themes . Battle of Briton film also has two different end themes.the opening of the film is awesome (borrowing from Thirty seconds over Tokyo ) blended with that powerful opening music & all star cast its a gr8 film!
Erstklassige Komposition und erstklassige Leistung!
this movie was loved in Japan for being the first movie not to show them as savages but men who tried to do a job. as sailors and airmen.
+kevin texter It was mostly the army that did all that anyway.
Actually its possible that credit might go to Tora Tora Tora, which was actually a joint US/Japanese production, with the Japanese filming their segments and the whole being edited together for the final film.
Well, in germany we are still waiting for a movie showing the conflict between allies and german forces in a more realistic way.
All films about true and horrible german war crimes are made.
Watch "The Sinking of the Laconia".
Michael Engel Already done: Das Boot
At around the 2:00 mark I still get a jolt as Doolittles B-24's approach Tokyo and the bomb bay door opens.
+john dates They are not B-24s! The B-24 was a four engined bomber! Those were heavily modified B-25Bs!
Thor God of Thunder
I stand corrected. You are right. Serves me right for posting in haste. Just prior to posting I had viewed a clip of the Ploesti raid where we used B-24's so that was the source of my error.
Thanks for pointing it out.
john dates No problem. However you have to admit that the Japanese should actually count themselves lucky. Because well the Soviets didn't want the United States to base B-17s out from like Vladivostok or something. Otherwise we would have just carpet bombed Tokyo.
Interesting thing, international agreements, even in times of war. The Soviets needed a non-agression pact badly with Japan in order to focus on repelling Germany and Hitler's allies. So even though we were allied in Europe against the Axis, the Soviets were forced due to this agreement to detain the Doolitle Raiders who landed in the USSR. Fun fact: it was a long held belief that sympathetic Russian civilians helped the aviators escape and make it to Iran (then occupied by the big 3 allied powers) however with the collapse of the Soviet Union declassified materials reveal that the "civilians" were NKVD agents tasked with sending the US airmen home and making it look like an escape so as not to anger Japan, if Japanese spies learned of this.
You still get a thrill 70 years later? You probably posted this from a computer that has parts from there.
BULLEYE! BULLEYE! YAAAAAAAA HO!
Just bought the soundtrack thanks to this video. Funny how I miss being "haze gray & underway" now that I'm no longer in the USN.
Brother, you speak for many Vets, Navy and other.
Daniel Louwsma, US Navy, 1984-90
Without John Williams there no Star Wars, Jaws, close encounters. I am sir I missed many. I never knew he scored this movie. I almost forgot
Superman. I wake up to the planet krypton everyday.
At 11:33 this is the version of Midway March that I've been looking for
The re-record with the Scottish Symphony is conducted way to slow for me, and does not have the impact of the original, IMHO.
The opening titles to this movie is the ONLY music that could fit the bravery of the Doolittle raid.
john williams is great when it comes to scores.
no kidding
Wow, thanks Fredrick if you're still there. Came here from "The Cowboys". Many thanks for your efforts. All the folks that don't like copy-catting: yes, yes, but they all do. The Brits: Holst, Vaughn Williams (5th Symph), William Walton, Eric Korngold; Americans: Howard Hanson, Max Steiner, Elmer (& Leonard) Bernstein, etc. I was mad at 1st too. In the end, one needs to be thankful music like this exists. I know the big theme @ 8:00 min is the Throne Room from Star Wars and like it anyway. The military march @ 12:00 could be The Bridge at Remaggen, @ ~4:00 the drop to a lower key and broaden theme w/thick harmony & counterpoint-William Walton, Henry V w/ Laurence Olivier, 1944. Doesn't matter. I'm thankful John Williams, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, etc have moved our hearts. Thanks for the posting Fredrick.
Out of the five faces above only one is still alive....
I love it.
Beautiful score!!! If you listen closely, you can hear a little bit of star wars a new hope in there! This was back in the day when music was made with feeling! Now every movie seems to have a rap song attached to it! Smfh
This movie came out on 1976, and in 1977 the one we now call "A New Hope" premiered. So, maybe it was in the back of his mind...
Best part is at 10.36. Stand up and salute to USN
Perfect music to build a few 1/72 F4F-4s to
the men of the midway march is the best part of this score, awesome ..
hey there!
yes, the score include "the men of the yourktown march" (here a picture of the back cover, taken from the website of the label which presented this cd, varese sarabande:
varesesarabande. com/media/04/a20791a132dfd5f1a33bd5_l.jpg
"TMFTYM"was also composed by maestro williams. i saw a few days ago a version of the film where the film closed with the typical "end credits" theme. the "TMFTYM" was completely not in the film.
best wishes! :-)
Un peliculón john Williams un maestro
Saw Midway, Earthquake and Battlestr in Sensurround. Only saw rollercoaster on tv. I believe these were the only 4. Battlestar was amazing in sensurround.
All braves!!! Waldron and his bunch... Parks, Massey... all of them
Great movie
I'm sure critics on both sides will have their own opinions. This version of the movie wasn't as historically accurate as the new 2019 version, but the score of this version was amazing. It's John Williams. Any John Williams score is amazing, even if the movie is so-so.
Great score,the opening sounds very Goldsmith with the piano but that us hardly a critique.
John Williams played piano on Goldsmith scores don’t forget…. And the Newmans! A lot of crossover ❤️
Williams also played piano on Goldsmith's City of Fear. And on many more film scores:
Funny Face (1957); music by George Gershwin, musical dírection by Adolph Deutsch;
Bell, Book and Candle (1958); George Duning;
South Pacific (1958), music by Richard Rodgers, musicla direction by Alfred Newman;
Porgy and Bess (1959), musical direction by André Previn, music by George Gershwin;
Some Like It Hot (1959), Adolph Deutsch;
Peter Gunn (1959, tv series), Henry Mancini;
Johnny Stacatto (1959, tv series), Elmer Bernstein;
City of Fear (1959), Jerry Goldsmith;
The Apartment (1960), Adolph Deutsch;
Studs Lonigan (1960), Jerry Goldsmith;
West Side Story (1961), musical direction by Johnny Green, music by Leonard Bernstein;
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962), Franz Waxman
At around the 200 mark I still get a jolt as Doolittles B-24's approach Tokyo and the bomb bay door opens.
+john dates THEY ARE B-25Bs!
Very true. It is my error. I had just read an article about the Ploiesti oil raids in 1943 where B-24's were used.
I didn't proofread my post.
:)
john dates oh, that makes sense.
love those B 25s
@@johndates9827 we forgive you
One would have to feel sorry for an admiral who would have to go home and apologise to an emperor for losing 4 aircraft carriers in 1 day.
"These Americans sacrifice themselves like Samuri"
Torpedo 8
so that other may live free, they sacrificed their lives in defense of others backyard
+john dates GREAT SOUNDTRACK! About 27 years ago, I actually met Ensign George Gay...sole survivor of Torpedo 8. Ensign Gay was in the water and witnessed the SBD's "hits" on IJN's carriers Soryu, Kaga and Akagi.
I would have been overwhelmed by the chance to meet him. Glad you did.
"How many of those can you eat!???"
1) US Ships under attack (Music by John Williams) 2) US Navy falls into the water (Music by John Williams) 3) Sharks arrive (Music by John Williams...)
"Matt Gard is coming in; his plane is all shot."
However there is one piece missing. The score wehre the first Betty was shot down, and same used when Akagi, Kaga, Soryu were blasted to bits!
i am confused....saw the movie in 1976....end title was a recapitulation as a march of the original theme...this music seems different...did maestro williams change it afterwards...i liked the original ending music
The Longer Version, Where they Include the Battle of the Coral Sea is the Best ! A Quick but Touching Scene,Is Where the Naval. Communication People On Corregidor, Issue a " WE ARE SIGNING OFF" Message in the Clear, Before They Surrender, and the US Forces Receive It !
Finally! If I may ask, how did you get this? I have the re-mastered 'Midway' soundtrack from 1998 by the Royal Scottish Orchestra but have always wanted the true original soundtrack.
I found the original soundtrack on CD on Amazon, was expensive but worth the money as they are now out of production. Buy you can find them there.
I keep hearing so many echos from the Jaws soundtrack in here, same creator, so maybe thats not too surprising.
Go listen to The Poseidon Adventure. A lot came from it.
Presented in SENSOROUND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The film was very good, the score great, but it was also a "gimmick" picture. Here's why: Universal had come up with something called "Sensurround" which was a low-frequency installation in theaters that would cause rumbling and a physical pressure wave on the audience--it was first used with the movie "Earthquake" to simulate the FEEL of a quake when it happened in the movie. I remember going to see it firstrun at the Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard and they had strung big cargo nets across the ornate ceiling ostensibly to keep pieces of it from falling down on the audience due to the Sensurround effects (probably more hype and psychological than actual!) But THEN what do you do with this expensive gimmick? Well, the next movie they tried it with was "Midway" and when, for example, the planes warmed up their engines on the carrier decks you "felt" the vibrations--ditto the bombs bursting. Next, they used it for the rumbles and explosions in "Rollercoaster!" Remember, this was before THX sound. Sensurround was developed by Cerwin-Vega, a speaker company, with Universal. It basically disappeared after Rollercoaster except for some re-edited theatrical releases of Battlestar Galactica TV episodes and use in themepark attractions at Universal Studios. SOmetimes patrons in adjoining theaters as megaplexes grew complained of the effect coming through the walls!
I remember. For this soundsystem they show Midway, Earthquake and Battlestar Galactica in germany in 1979 i think, i remember well the big big speakers and boxes in the cinema. And it works well in the stomach. Can you imagine what sensourround means on an Avenger movie?
Everyone keeps going on about this score, but I'd like to know does the score include "Men of The Yorktown March"? When I saw this movie on late-night TV back in the 1980's, that was the music track that the movie closed with. I've always associated the 'Men of The Yorktown march' with the movie.
Walter D Wormack: There are actually two versions of the closing music today. One is after the shortend version of the movie which leaves out Charlton Heston's personal relationship with the woman. The other of course is after the longer version.
His forgotten epic.
Um, forgotten by whom>
I watch this every Memorial day.
The battle that would make or break us. By God, America really turned it all around in just this battle. Japan was on the ropes after this.
hey there!
this soundtrack came out at the end of 2011 by the same label of the rerecording, varése sarabande. buy it here (varesesarabande com):
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all the best and good luck!
Fred
4.53.....strawberry n.5
Nadie en toda la segunda guerra mundial demostró mayor valor y determinación que los soldados japoneses.
ただし政治家と将軍に無能な奴がおおすぎた…😌
1970s? Miles Zentner on Piccolo?
when the movie came to dvd they cut out the battle of the corral sea.
I. Noticed that made me mad as it was a good scene in the movie .
America's revenge for Pearl Harbour. "Bombs on the Flight deck how did we get so lucky yeeeeh!!!!"
gaz lyno. To us maybe but not to Admiral Yammamoto. He told the Japanese High Command that he could run rampant for about 6 months and that then the American strength would begin to tell. Sort of a prophet wasn't he? He also told them that by attacking us they would awake a sleeping giant.
You know, we could have easily lost this battle.
Yes, I know we won.. I was trying to bring some perspective to the poster that was so excited by the victory. The Japanese made a series of mistakes that cost them a battle they should have won.
Unfortunately, the Japanese were dependent on some of our technology, and that ended after Pearl Harbor. They never got radar. I believe they sailed home after Pearl Harbor too instead of controlling the Pacific properly. The biggest mistake was obviously attacking in the first place. They should have used spies in the US to gauge the public's interest in a fight after they attacked some of our allies in Asia.
After reading about the battle, you realize how close we came to defeat.
Tactics and procedures then were just horrible.
Not horrible, different. Realize they just had iPhone II in those days.
They were breaking Japanese codes with an Apple IIe.
What? You've got Apple in your head lol.
I seen the movie Midway on Tuesday, July 12,1976 at the Harbor Drive In in National City, CA. I was in the Navy stationed aboard the USS Blue Ridge LCC-19 in San Diego. Great movie, great acting, great cast. Very unfortunately it was way too far underrated while that Patton movie and that POS Catch 22 were way too far overrated for movies on Worlds War II that were made in the 1970’s.
2:27 Revenge of the sith :D !!!
I love these suites of yours Fred, how do you do it??😁😁
Thank you coolbear! Always trying to give my best. Glad you like them!
Fred
You’re doing great. What do you do, take various pieces of the soundtrack and make a suite out of it??
@@coolbear6441
Thanks!
Yes, exactly that. :-)
The offical soundtrack sounds slower
1:38
It sounds like a Victorious Starwars march........
No surprise. The creator of both Midway's songs and the songs of the Star Wars franchise are one and the same: John Williams.
Roll over Beethoven
good song
Parts of this became Superman, then later The Patriot. @11:08, is this an old song, or a complete rip-off of Patton? This part later became 1941.
Shame it was such a mediocre film except for Fonda who is brilliant as Nimitz!
This is played entirely too fast. It sucks.