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Hell to Eternity

Hell to Eternity

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 1, 1960

Runtime

2h 11m

Genres

Drama, War

User Score

65%

Original Title

Hell to Eternity

Production Companies

Allied Artists Pictures, Atlantic Pictures Corporation

Director

Phil Karlson

Budget

$800,000

Description

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.