Hell in the Pacificis one of the most original and thoughtful war films of the 1960s. ... more
Fresh fromPoint Blank(1967) Lee Marvin reunited with director John Boorman for this elemental story of a US pilot and a Japanese naval officer washed ashore on an oth...
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They hunted each other as enemies...they tormented each other as savages...they faced each ... more
other as men! It is 1944 and the war in the Pacific is at its height. On a small deserted Pacific island a Japanese naval officer and U.S. naval pilot find the...
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It is 1944 and the war in the Pacific is at its height. On a small deserted Pacific island ... more
a Japanese naval officer and U.S. naval pilot find themselves marooned. The two men are bitter wartime enemies but stranded and with no one else to help them, they have to decide whether to fight each other to the death or work together for survival. As adversaries, can their mutual hatred, suspicion and mistrust be overcome and can humanity survive under such extreme conditions?
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of the Second World War. For countless Americans, British, Australians and New Zealanders, as well as the people of the Asia-Pacific region, the war meant ferocious fighting, and for many, appalling conditions in Japanese captivity. Atrocities were committed on both sides in a war without mercy. Rare and extraordinary archive film, and powerful and poignant eyewitness accounts bring to life a brutal conflict in places that looked like paradise but turned out to be hell.
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
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Not logn ago, i bought this film, expecting it to be a really good film, and i was correct, 'InHell' is about Kyle Lord (jean claude van damme) who gets put if a prison, for supposedly killing his wife, the prison he gets sent to is very violent, and the guards entertain themselves, and bet on fihts that they set up in the jail, Kyle starts of on a bad note, with one of the biggest gangs in the jail after him, he makes friends with a few inmates, and realises that the jail is ran buy certain inmates, and ends up fighten to survive in this horrendous jail. But when someone gets transferred from another prison to fight kyle, he realises that fighten is not the answer, and is determind not to fight. when the gaurds see this, they make him fight this inmate that is a beast! kyle and his aponent turn against the gurds and free the inmates ...
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Advantages: Scary and jumpy, great story and ending Disadvantages: So many gross things - disgusting!
Christine's coat and putting a curse on it.
After her frightful experience, Christine goes to see a fortune teller, along with her somewhat sceptical boyfriend, Clay. The fortune teller, Rham Jas, sees a dark spirit in Christine's future and refuses to read her fortune any further.
However, later that night, an evil spirit visits Christine and so Rham decides to help her. He tells her that the curse of the Lamia has been put upon her and that the evil spirit will torment her for three days before dragging her into hell. With Rham's help, Christine must try to overcome the Lamia before it's too late. But how far will she go to protect herself?
~ Cast ~
Christine Brown - Alison Lohman
Clay Dalton - Justin Long
Mrs Ganush - Lorna Raver
Rham Jas - Dileep Rao
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The Simpsons - Classics - Heaven and Hell is yet another of the 'classics' series of Simpsons DVD's. There are four episodes included here, each having something to do with heaven and the other place. They are "Bart Sells His Soul", "In Marge We Trust", "Treehouse Of Horror IV" and "Homer The Heretic".
In "Bart Sells His Soul", Bart sells his soul to Milhouse for 5 dollars after proclaiming they don't exist. He soon regrets the sale though, as his dog is very edgy towards him, automatic doors don't open for him anymore and Marge feel like he is missing something. In the end he gets it back from an unlikely source. A Bart-centric episode, it touches on what a soul is and how someone can possess such a thing. The Simpsons writers are excellent at trying to explain these things in a brilliantly comic way.
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Two men, one American, the other Japanese, meet on a desolate island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Their evolving relationship is an interesting study of human conflict.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
PRISM LEISURE, FREMANTLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT; ARVATO SERVICES
Scene Selection, Production Notes, Biographies, Quotes
Aspect Ratio
4:3 Full Frame
Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Dolby Digital
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo English
DVD Description
Director John Boorman's typical bravado is somewhat muted in this WWII parable. Set in the Pacific in 1944, the film focuses on two combatants stranded on the same barren atoll: a Japanese naval officer (Toshiro Mifune) and a U.S. marine pilot (Lee Marvin). At first the two men warily stalk each other, both revealing something by refusing to kill the other when the opportunity arises. At length the Japanese officer captures and harnesses the American, who ultimately escapes, returns, and ties up his opponent. The American finally releases his prisoner as both men grasp the pointlessness of their behavior, and a tacit truce develops between them, since neither can understand the other's language. After some scenes of mutually incomprehensible yelling and a bit of water torture, the Japanese man begins building a raft. The American's initial derision is replaced by an awareness that his cooperation would likely speed their departure and increase their odds of survival. In what is virtually a silent film, Boorman invokes his recurring 'man against nature' theme, here reconfigured as a plea for human solidarity. Marvin is excellent, while Mifune is a virtuoso of the kind of physical acting the film requires, and Conrad Hall's camerawork does justice to the spectacular beauty of the Micronesian islands.
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