Back Door To Hell

Back Door To Hell (1964)

Back Door to Hell

Dezember, 1944: Drei US-Soldaten versuchen hinter feindlichen Linien Informationen über die japanischen Truppen herauszubekommen. Über ein Kurzwellenradio können sie kommunizieren und ihren Status durchgeben. Als die Japaner die Anwesenheit der Amerikaner bemerken, nehmen sie Schulkinder als Geiseln...

Erscheinungsdatum
1964-12-19
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (19)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 10 Min.
Genres
Action, Kriegsfilm, Drama
Regie
Monte Hellman

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Gedreht in: Philippinen

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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