Hell in The Pacific
– During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves..
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he guards it to deny its use to the Yank, who then steals it, its proceeds or the idea and/or ruins it. Yet each gets his chance to kill and/or capture the other, but neither pushes this to the end. After a while of this pointless pestering, they end up joining forces to build and man a raft...
18 Dec 1968
English, Japanese
All ages admitted. Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children.
John Boorman
Alexander Jacobs (screenplay), Eric Bercovici (screenplay), Reuben Bercovitch (story)
Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he guards it to deny its use to the Yank, who then steals it, its proceeds or the idea and/or ruins it. Yet each gets his chance to kill and/or capture the other, but neither pushes this to the end. After a while of this pointless pestering, they end up joining forces to build and man a raft...
Cinerama