Two Wartime Enemies With One Chance For Survival...Each Other. From the director of Excalibur and Deliverance comes this "gripping" (Leonard Maltin) adventure about two wartime enemies trapped alone on a desert island. Academy Award winner Lee Marvin (The Dirty Dozen) and Toshiro Mifune (The Seven Samurai) deliver "striking and well-etched performances" (LA Herald-Examiner) in this searing psychological drama that packs "plenty of action and excitement" (Motion Picture Herald)! From the instant they meet, a marooned American soldier (Marvin) and his Japanese counterpart (Mifune) have the same objective: killing each other. But it soon becomes apparent that the only way they will survive is by forging an uneasy truce and cooperating with each other. Can they rise above the hatred that divides them long enough to stay alive?

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Hell in the Pacific (1968)

G

War/Drama · 1h 43m · 12/18/1968

They hunted each other as enemies...they tormented each other as savages...they faced each other as men!

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Two Wartime Enemies With One Chance For Survival...Each Other. From the director of Excalibur and Deliverance comes this "gripping" (Leonard Maltin) adventure about two wartime enemies trapped alone on a desert island. Academy Award winner Lee Marvin (The Dirty Dozen) and Toshiro Mifune (The Seven Samurai) deliver "striking and well-etched performances" (LA Herald-Examiner) in this searing psychological drama that packs "plenty of action and excitement" (Motion Picture Herald)! From the instant they meet, a marooned American soldier (Marvin) and his Japanese counterpart (Mifune) have the same objective: killing each other. But it soon becomes apparent that the only way they will survive is by forging an uneasy truce and cooperating with each other. Can they rise above the hatred that divides them long enough to stay alive?

Status

Released

Languages

English, Japanese

Country

United States

Production Companies

Selmur Productions, Henry G. Saperstein Enterprises Inc.

Budget

$4,150,000

Revenue

$3,230,000

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Cast

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Lee Marvin

American Pilot

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Toshirô Mifune

Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda

Crew

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John Boorman

Director

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Alexander Jacobs

Writer

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Eric Bercovici

Writer

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Reuben Bercovitch

Writer

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Reuben Bercovitch

Producer

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Conrad L. Hall

Cinematograpy

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Lalo Schifrin

Music

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Thomas Stanford

Editor

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Anthony Pratt

Art

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Masao Yamazaki

Art

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Clem Portman

Sound

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Hell in the Pacific

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