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Hell to Eternity |  | Director: Phil Karlson
Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone, Patricia Owens, Richard Eyer
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 21275
Format: Subtitled, NTSC, Black & White
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 132 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD114211D
UPC: 085391142119
EAN: 0085391142119
ASIN: B000NTPG66
Theatrical Release Date: August 1, 1960
Release Date: June 5, 2007
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Product Description
Tells the true story of Guy Gabaldon whose ability to speak Japanese helped him convince eight hundred Japanese soldiers to surrender after the capture of Saipan.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 5-JUN-2007
Media Type: DVD
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Hell to Eternity (1962) sets out to tell the true story of Guy Gabaldon, a white Angeleno raised from boyhood by a family of Japanese-Americans. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, his parents are interned, his brothers enlist to fight in Europe, and Guy (Jeffrey Hunter)--after clearing it with mama-san--offers the Marines his services in the Pacific as an interpreter. During the battle for Saipan (reenacted by director Phil Karlson on the island of Okinawa) he undergoes several transformations, from reluctant warrior to implacable avenger to, ultimately, a truce-seeker trying to save lives on both sides. That's a fine-sounding dramatic trajectory, but the two-hours-plus Allied Artists production is patchy, with some amateurish acting in the Los Angeles portion (including an early appearance by George Takei) and an excruciating, wishfully raunchy night of shore leave in Hawaii before shipping out to the war zone. Sessue Hayakawa of Bridge on the River Kwai fame dominates the final sequences as the Japanese commandant. --Richard T. Jameson
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 War is Hell June 5, 2010
Michael J. Kotch (Florida, USA)
Based on a true story, the star-studded cast and brilliant storyline make this a classic. I watched this movie on B&W television about 1000 years ago, and was pleased that it came out on DVD. It's still in B&W, but most of the classic movies are.
 Good War Classic March 5, 2010
E. Overpeck (Sterling, Alaska USA)
I really liked this movie and it's story line. Jeffery Hunter was casted good in this movie. I will enjoy going back and watching this again from time to time.
 Good story poorly told December 17, 2009
J. Carey (oregon)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The story about Guy Gabaldon is really an interesting one, its too bad they couldn't find a more compelling way to portray it. The casting, script and direction are all very weak and not at all engaging.
In what should have been a compelling story about a very unusual story from WW2, a white man who was raised by a Japanese family before the war ends up fighting in the Pacific war while his adopted family is in an internment camp in the US is basically a throw away.
I think that you could find our more about this by just going on line
A Soppy War Movie July 15, 2009
Ian Holdsworth (Melbourne, Australia)
This is a interesting war movie, based on a true story about an American Boy who was raised by a Japanese / American family. Having heard and read so much about the atrocities committed by Japanese Troops during World War Two, I have a lot of difficulty feeling sympathic towards the Japanese. Lest We Forget
Hell to Eternity September 16, 2008
J. V. Ortiz (Sunland, CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie has not withstood the test of time, but still offers an insight into one American's experience growing up with Japanese Americans and then using his LA Japanese to face Imperial Japanese forces on Saipan. This DVD could be made much more effectively if it had film of the real Guy Gabaldon, who died recently. Of course, that would ruin the fantasy-story Hollywood created around him. A simple man, who fought an enemy, tried to talk them into surrendering, but shot them dead if they did not. Not much romance in that, but, it was war.
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