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www.apolloguide.com - : For those of you who were caught up in The Survivor television show phenomenon, Hell in the Pacific might be a good film to go back and take a look at. It’s set in 1944, when – in the middle of the Second World War – a Japanese naval officer and a U.S. pilot are stranded together on a small, deserted Pacific island. Lee Marvin plays the American whose plane has been shot down offshore and Toshiro Mifune plays his sworn enemy by way of their governments. more...
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70/1
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www.iofilm.co.uk - : If you're in the mood for something a little bit different, then Hell in the Pacific is a rewarding, thought-provoking experience, let down only by its ending. ''Hell is other people'' but ''No man is an island''. more...
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4/5
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www.timeout.com - : Intriguing but finally dissatisfying movie in which Marvin and Mifune repeatedly get into macho standoffs as a US Marine pilot and a Japanese naval officer stranded together on a desert island during World War II. Boorman makes the most of a limited situation through strong performances and dramatically employed scope compositions, but it gradually descends into woolly allegory. more...
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5/5
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