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Hell to Eternity

6.6 131 mins Drama   War   1960
Allied Artists Pictures   Atlantic Pictures Corporation  
Director(s): Phil Karlson

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.

Casts of Hell to Eternity

Jeffrey Hunter

as Guy Gabaldon

David Janssen

as Sgt, Bill Hazen

Sessue Hayakawa

as General Matsui

Vic Damone

as Cpl. Pete Lewis

George Takei

as George Une

Reiko Sato

as Famika

Patricia Owens

as Sheila Lincoln

Richard Eyer

as Guy - as a Boy

John Larch

as Capt. Schwabe

Bill Williams

as Leonard

Michi Kobi

as Sono

George Shibata

as Kaz Une

Richard Gardner

as Polaski

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