The Marines' Battle Cry of the South Pacific!
Original title
Hell to Eternity
Released
8/1/1960
Origin country
US
Genre
Drama, War
Production companies
Allied Artists Pictures, Atlantic Pictures Corporation
Budget
$800,000.00
Revenue
—
Runtime
2hr 11min
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.
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