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Hell in the Pacific by John Boorman
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Lee Marvin, Toshir? Mifune Director: John Boorman Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled) Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 103 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-05-25 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Hell in the PacificMovie Review: Clash of Enemies Summary: 4 StarsTwo enemies are trapped on a island together! There are only two actors in this film but it is one of my top films for Japan WW2. By using the subtitles you will understand the Japanese dialogue. This movie keeps you glued to the screen until the last moment. The ending is sudden and I didn't think it fit until I watched it again. There is also a Alternate Ending on the DVD.
Summary of Hell in the PacificFrom 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? System Requirements: Running Time 103 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating:?G UPC:?027616905819 Manufacturer No:?1006381 Lone Japanese soldier Toshiro Mifune diligently scans the ocean from his island lookout as he must have thousands of times before, but this time he spies an abandoned life raft resting on a rocky bluff. Within minutes he's face to face with American sea-wreck survivor Lee Marvin and the two begin an elaborate game of cat and mouse. Director John Boorman presents this two-man war as a deadly game between a pair of overgrown children, who finally tire of it (as kids will) and settle into tolerated co-existence and then even something resembling a friendship. With impressionistic strokes, Boorman paints a lush tropical paradise in colors you can drink from the screen, capturing the texture of their experience as refracted through the cinema: the look of the island as seen through the haze of smoke, the sound of a sudden rainstorm as it hushes the island in a calming roar, the timelessness of life outside of civilization. The story seems almost secondary, an allegorical drama that comes alive in the excellent performances by Marvin and Mifune (who soon enough converse despite their complete inability to understand each other's language) and the visceral immediacy of Boorman's gorgeous widescreen images. Hell in the Pacific is not a tale told as much as a film experienced. --Sean Axmaker
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