Hell to Eternity

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.

• Leith StevensOriginal Music Composer
• Phil KarlsonDirector
• Ted SherdemanScreenplay
• Walter Roeber SchmidtScreenplay

• Jeffrey HunterGuy Gabaldon
• David JanssenSgt, Bill Hazen
• Sessue HayakawaGeneral Matsui
• Vic DamoneCpl. Pete Lewis
• George TakeiGeorge Une
• Reiko SatoFamika
• Patricia OwensSheila Lincoln
• Richard EyerGuy - as a Boy
• John LarchCapt. Schwabe
• Bill WilliamsLeonard
• Michi KobiSono
• George ShibataKaz Une