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    Hell to Eternity

    Hell to Eternity

    "The Marines' Battle Cry of the South Pacific!"

    1960

    2:11:46

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    Hell to Eternity

    Genre

    Drama
    War

    Plot

    Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his foster family is interned at the Manzanar camp for Japanese Americans, while he enlists in the Marines, where his ability to speak Japanese becomes a vital asset. During the Battle of Saipan, he convinces 800 Japanese to surrender after their general commits suicide.

    Director

    Phil Karlson

    Writers

    Walter Roeber Schmidt, Ted Sherdeman, Gil Doud,

    Stars

    Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Sessue Hayakawa, Vic Damone, George Takei,