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.

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  Jeffrey Hunter

  Guy Gabaldon
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  David Janssen

  Sgt, Bill Hazen
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  Sessue Hayakawa

  General Matsui
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  Vic Damone

  Cpl. Pete Lewis
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  George Takei

  George Une
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  Reiko Sato

  Famika
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  Patricia Owens

  Sheila Lincoln
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  Richard Eyer

  Guy - as a Boy
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  John Larch

  Capt. Schwabe
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  Bill Williams

  Leonard