
Watch trailer for Hell to Eternity + Q&A with Prof. Greg Robinson
Watch trailer
Hell to Eternity + Q&A with Prof. Greg Robinson
Opens on June 21
Director: Phil Karlson Run Time: 131 min. Release Year: 1960
Starring: David Janssen, George Takei, Jeffrey Hunter, Sessue Hayakawa, Vic Damone
Followed by a Q&A with historian and author Prof. Greg Robinson.
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.