Los diablos del Pacífico

Los diablos del Pacífico (1956)

Between Heaven and Hell

¡De la novela más vendida sobre el amor joven en la guerra!

Sam Gifford, un terrateniente del Sur casado con la hija de un coronel, y que trata mal a sus trabajadores de la plantación de algodón que posee, comprende lo equivocado de su postura al tener que enrolarse en las tropas americanas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, donde tiene que compartir tristezas y penalidades con compañeros de todas las capas sociales.

Fecha de estreno
1956-10-11
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (37)
Duración
1 h 34 min
Géneros
Bélica, Drama
Director
Richard Fleischer

Reparto

Curiosidades

  • Rodada en: Hawái
  • Premios: 0 · Nominaciones: 1

Between Heaven and Hell is a 1956 American Cinemascope war film based on the novel The Day the Century Ended by Francis Gwaltney that the film follows closely. The story is told in flashback format detailing the life of Sam Gifford from his life as a Southern landowner to his war service in the Philippines during World War II.

Production

Arkansas-born Francis Irby Gwaltney soldiered in the Philippines with the 112th Cavalry that served throughout the Pacific doing several amphibious landings. During this service he met and formed a friendship with Norman Mailer.

The Day the Century Ended was Gwaltney's most famous novel. When Fox picked the 1955 novel up for filming, they assigned it to Philippines veteran Rod Serling, famed for his American television plays. Unfortunately, Serling's first screenplay was nine hours long, and the project was given to other writers, notably Harry Brown, who had written the book A Walk in the Sun.

Between Heaven and Hell is one of the 1950s depictions of the US Army that did not paint a recruiting poster image and was more in tune with many soldiers' memories, such as From Here to Eternity, Robert Aldrich's Attack or Samuel Fuller's films.

Fleischer uses the Cinemascope widescreen format well, notably in views of hills lit up by a firefight.

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