Hell to Eternity Page #5

Synopsis: True life story of Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. Later, during the war, as his foster parents are interned at a camp for Japanese Americans, Gabaldon's ability to speak Japanese helps him become a lone-operating Marine hero. During the bloody capture of the island of Saipan, he convinces 800 Japanese to surrender after their general commits suicide.
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Director(s): Phil Karlson
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
APPROVED
Year:
1960
131 min
132 Views


You must miss them awful much, Mama-san.

oh, heart cries at night.

But must be. To straighten out this mess.

Son George teach that word. It's good word?

That's a real good word.

oh, it sure is a mess.

Sons.

All-America boys end

mess. No more mess ever.

We live happy.

Happy?

How can you be happy? Everything you

and Papa-san ever worked for is gone.

True. Gone.

once before we sit so.

Yeah, I know. It was a

long time ago, wasn't it?

Mother...

...father of Une family work hard all lives.

Want to build...

Good...

- Good...

- Foundation?

oh, hai, hai.

Good foundation.

For future.

Not many years left for

old people to build again.

Sons must build.

Kaz, George, Guy.

Must build home again.

Must build world again.

Must end mess.

All papa-sans,

mama-sans...

...all countries, all over the world is same.

This you believe?

What difference does it make

what one man believes or does?

one man must believe.

Must make difference.

Why else Kaz, George go

far away across ocean...

...to kill men look like brother they love?

Mama-san...

...are you saying that it's all right

for me to go to war against the Japanese?

oh, you big fellow.

- oh, not so big, Pop.

- Guy, what you do all this time?

No, never mind about me.

I want to know about you.

- How do you feel? You look great.

- I feeling great.

- Eat like horse.

- Horse?

oh, got plenty of hay around here, huh?

Horse, hay.

Mama-san eat a whole... Whole...

- Bale?

- So, so. Bale.

- What was that?

- Meal time.

Gong on every block hit same time.

Eating very punctual.

- Punctual.

- Punctual.

George teach. Good word?

oh, that's a great word.

Come, we eat three bales hay.

Three bales.

- Captain.

- Yes.

There's a man outside,

says he wants to enlist.

But he's been turned down by his own board.

What's he doing here?

Well, he says he speaks

and understands Japanese.

Send him in. We need interpreters.

Yes, sir.

The captain will see you now.

Captain Salter, Mr. Gabaldon.

- Sit down, please.

- Thank you.

Go left. Go left.

Right, back, ho!

Go left. Go left.

Step to the rear, ho!

Go left.

Go left, right, left.

Don't that joker know any

orders besides that one?

Left. Halt.

To the rear. Halt.

Left oblique, halt.

Halt. Halt.

order. Halt.

All right, let's fall in there on the double.

Move it. Gabaldon, front and center.

Gabaldon!

Now, can't you get it through

your head what oblique means?

- Now, look, sarge...

- You're at attention.

I came into this outfit to talk to

the enemy, not to footrace with them.

Now, let's go through it once more, boot.

In the Marines, it's

"sergeant," not "sarge. "

It is never sarge, you got it?

In the marines you

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