Back Door to Hell

Back Door to Hell (1964)

It took courage to get to Luzon - and blood and guts to move every mile beyond!

During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.

Date of release
1964-12-19
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (19)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Action, War, Drama
Director
Monte Hellman

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Philippines

Back Door to Hell is a 1964 American-Filipino war film concerning a three-man team of United States soldiers preparing the way for Gen. MacArthur's World War II return to the Philippines by destroying a Japanese communications center. It was produced on a small budget and received mediocre reviews.

Production

Robert Lippert had been impressed by Jack Nicholson's Thunder Island so gave Nicholson and his friends Monte Hellman and John Hackett $160,000 and $400 a week salary to make two films on location in the Philippines. The three men and Hellman's wife and child traveled 28 days by ship via Hawaii, Hong Kong and Japan with the three working on the screenplays to both films on the voyage.

Popular singer Jimmie Rodgers had a substantial part in the film, and co-financed it.

The film, directed by Monte Hellman, was shot on location in Vinzons, Camarines Norte, Philippines, giving it an authentic look. The same plot was reused in Ib Melchior's Ambush Bay (1966) with a larger Marine patrol destroying a minefield prior to the American and Filipino invasion of the Philippines.

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