HELL TO ETERNITY Original Daybill Movie Poster David Janssen Jeffrey Hunter

Hell to Eternity (1960)

Directed by Phil Karlson.

With Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone, Patricia Owens

True life story of Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. Later, during the war, as his foster parents are interned at a camp for Japanese Americans, Gabaldon's ability to speak Japanese helps him become a lone-operating Marine hero. During the bloody capture of the island of Saipan, he convinces 800 Japanese to surrender after their general commits suicide.