Hell to Eternity | Beach Landing at The Battle of Saipan | Warner Classics

American forces including Guy Gabaldon (Jeffrey Hunter) hit the beaches of Saipan facing pillboxes, mortars, and a gruesome scene.
About Hell to Eternity (Theatrical Release - September 30, 1960):
Taken in as a homeless boy on the streets of Los Angeles, Guy Gabaldon (Jeffrey Hunter--King of Kings) was raised in a Japanese-American family with George (George Takei--"Star Trek") as his brother. Drafted and sent to Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Guy must face the reality of fighting the Japanese -- and the fact that his knowledge of the language makes him invaluable to the United States war effort.
Based on a true story.
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[@jonathanchartrand3351]

I lived in Saipan for three years, from 2000 to 2003, teaching at Mount Carmel Catholic private school. We still found live rifle shells, with one teacher finding a live bomb.

[@pauljefferies2091]

My grandfather was in one of the first landing crafts to hit that beach. Out of everyone he trained with he was the only one to live through it.

[@fortwoods]

I have walked the beaches of Saipan and prayed at the plaques of American Memorial Park which lists the names of every US soldier who lost their lives there. Your grandfather was a hero.

[@MilitarySummaryChannel2024]

*No matter how many documentaries I watch I still find more horrors of war. It's so hard to comprehend. Thanks to all our Veterans who served, especially to those who never returned home.*

[@HugoHackenbush-jq7hl]

Beautifully said. My dad was on Omaha Beach during WWII. 747th Tank Battalion. Fought all the way through to the Battle of the Bulge and onwards. He helped liberate the infamous Nordhausen Concentration Camp. A true American hero.

[@DaveRose-c2h]

I met the man who was the real live hero of the story. He retired in Ensenada Mexico and built a Lobster fishing fleet. He had a large glass covered box with key to about every major city in the USA. The sad part is that the Government of Mexico nationalized his fleet and just stole everything from him. Heroes in the USA are not the same. South of the Border. One of the nicest people I ever met and I was 19 at the time.

[@stephenobrien4392]

The great Sessue Hayakawa plays the Japanese commander, as he did in The Bridge on the River Kwai.

[@CJArnold-hq3ey]

How many WW2 movies 47

[@bennikdk_4927]

@@CJArnold-hq3ey he was a pro...maximilian schell player everytime a german general or sub commander ! XD ok ok curd jügens play more rolls as german general or sub comander ! XD

[@PowerfulTruth]

Good eye! Recognized the Actor, yet did not make the connection to Sessue Hayakawa. Right you are!

[@Fat12219]

The Bridge on the River Kwai 😮

[@kevinclarke1222]

Believe an Allied spy during WW1?

[@MikeRyan-vd1qw]

Never was this disclaimer needed more: “This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

[@johnny.3693]

My Father fought in Saipan, it was no picnic. He told me about the thousands who had jumped over the cliffs. Bodies were piled 30ft high.

[@drivergj1972]

Spent a week exploring Saipan in Jan 2024... A must for every Marine and American

[@jerseybob1000]

My dad was in the 4th wave, he said the first wave was almost wiped out as they landed right into Japanese machine gun cross fire,Later he dug a big trench on the beach with a bull dozer and pushed bodies in, dad said it was horrible . he went 4 days and nights with no sleep under combat.

[@PowerfulTruth]

Had never heard of, much less seen, this movie, and I thought I’d seen them all. Interesting. Been to Saipan twice, and it was the site of a major, costly Banzai Attack. Topography in the film even resembled the real island. Looks like it was filmed at Camp Pendleton in CA.

[@robertjones2811]

My grandfather was on one of those landing craft in Saipan. The PTSD caused generations of trauma.

[@rubencervantes4799]

That was one of the most hard core nonstop violent war movies. How did any of those men manage survive such brutal carnage. The scenes were were definitely hellish.

[@hugohuysmans9666]

Most of the scenes were shot in a studio and they didn't use real bullits. 😉

[@kenneththompson8933]

The CLUE is in the title!!! It's a Hollywood FILM😅😅😅

[@jyLee-wq4tl]

Thank God, I served 1975 to 1978 as a ROKN Officer. I aborded a LST 807(1010 USA Navy ship at W2) 🇺🇸 ❤🇰🇷

[@HerliyZar]

❤❤❤

[@victorsuarez3546]

Thank you for serving.

[@ヘンリー少尉]

7:00 It's revealed that fugitive Richard Kimble has fled to Saipan.☺

[@photodom2000]

The most unrealistic defence of a position I have ever seen. There is no way the Americans would have charged forward to meet this Banzai attack. They would fight from fixed positions until that wasn't possible i.e. they were over run, then they would engage in hand to hand combat.

[@komi1582]

帝国日本軍は命を粗末にしません、夜間のゲリラ戦まで洞窟に隠れていたはずです、 バンザイ攻撃は鬼畜の上官に追い詰められたからだと思う。

[@ww2remembered983]

Yep, charging uphill without fixed bayonets too.

[@igorvkalinin]

Countercharge did not make sense to me either. It is always easier to defend a position and kill the advancing enemy from well sighted posts. But it is a movie, and an action movie must show some action.

[@francopasta3704]

Yes General…

[@photodom2000]

@@francopasta3704 Glad you appreciate my superior knowledge.

[@williamkoppos7039]

6:38 "They understood you just fine Marine" then sweeps across his chin with Carbine

[@PowerfulTruth]

Cook ‘em and Book ‘em, Danno! Semper Fi, Boys!

[@diegocolindres5540]

Guy Gabaldon, a real American Hero !

[@nvs4u2]

Interesting timing of this clip, seeing how we just cleared and re-activated the old WWII runways on Saipan.

[@robertcooper6853]

If I remember correctly, the USS Tennessee was close enough to the shore on one of the beaches to use not only her secondary batteries but also her 40mm AA batteries on shore targets.

[@markpaul-ym5wg]

Saipan and Iwo jima.Big T was there!

[@razorshark9320]

I love World War 2 movies mostly because I had family who was in World War 2.

[@rolfagten857]

Lee Marvin did this Saipan fight for real.

[@rotaman8555]

I lived on Saipan. I’ve walked those beaches. It’s surreal.

[@fortwoods]

Me too. It's hallowed ground.

[@jonathanchartrand3351]

I lived in Saipan for three years, from 2000 to 2003, teaching at Mount Carmel Catholic private school. We still found live rifle shells, with one teacher finding a live bomb.

[@rotaman8555]

@ Thanks for sharing. I lived there from 2003 to 2008. I used to metal detect along the beaches in front of the resorts looking for lost jewelry and coins, etc. I found a lot of bullets from the war and a fair bit of naval shell shrapnel. I once discovered a crate containing four 4” artillery shells. They must have fallen from a landing craft and been buried. I contacted hotel staff and they called the police to come get them. Good times.

[@garysmith8276]

Remember, this is Hollywood.

[@davidstruck8109]

Actually I think they filmed it on Okinawa

[@Hetzerg]

There was no cgi back in the day. This was real 😢

[@stevemartin6144]

Odd how every Japanese soldier that gets killed here isn't even trying to fight back.

[@stevemartin6144]

@@JohnCasciello a script written as an excuse for an easy and lame fight scene.

[@brucepoole8552]

America saved the free world

[@hugohuysmans9666]

Wasn't this the last war they won? 😂

[@brucepoole8552]

@ it was the war your country was saved by, your welcome

[@hugohuysmans9666]

@ Thanks to Japan that bombed Pearl Harbor and next Germany that declared war to the US. Before that happened the US had no intenties at all to go to war in Europe. No oil here, remember

[@brucepoole8552]

@ in the 1940's america had all the oil it needed

[@hugohuysmans9666]

@ ok, then it was pure charity, sorry 🙄

[@Mike-mm4mx]

'it's always the slobs on the ground gotta do the dirty work'. Yep.

[@maggedo-x1s]

My Dad's preferred war movies were these World War 2 films, while mine were our Vietnam War movies, & so we watched 'em together...'til '94.

[@t55a2]

There aren’t that many Vietnam War films, tbf, compared to WW2.

[@maggedo-x1s]

@@t55a2 True: 18 'Nam movies from John Wayne's '68 "The Green Berets" to Sam Elliot's "We Were Soldiers" in '05. 14 in 80's.

[@t55a2]

@@maggedo-x1s Your dad wins by a big margin there, sir

[@maggedo-x1s]

@@t55a2 Also true, but 'Nam movies are way more God-awfully brutal, so each of them takes more time to get thr'u', so my Dad said, takin' our time.

[@t55a2]

@@maggedo-x1s A lot of WW2 films have really boring romance interests, to keep everyone happy, when all you want are tanks and aircraft. Some are just dreadful. Still, more good than bad.

[@Dr.Pepper001]

I had a friend who was credited with killing the first Japanese soldier on Saipan. His name was Ron Bell.

[@clevlandblock]

I saw this hellish feature alone at the theater when I was about 10 years old, before the movie rating/restriction system. Nice Banzaii charge but where the hell are the 1919 30 cal crews?

[@Carlschwamberger1]

I never saw any BAR either.

[@brucemacmillan9581]

Was that Godzilla on the beach? Lol

[@ww2remembered983]

Yeah, breathing fire from a bunker!

[@holpho5036]

មើលចុះនេះហើយសង្រ្គាមលោកលើកទី២ ម្លឹងៗហើយ ចុះបើផ្ទុះលើកទី៣ទៀត អាវុធទំនើបម្លឹងៗ។❤❤❤❤

[@hongnguyen3966]

Tôi rất thích xem chương trình này nhé 🎉🎉🎉

[@MinhNguyen-cn8kx]

Fantastico saipan.... Respect from Vietnam... Allahu akhbar

[@garywagner2466]

No automatic weapons or mortars among the Americans. Must have used the only grenade on the pillbox. Navy ran out of shells, and missed a stationary target of massed Japanese troops. Not sure what the flame throwers were doing, but it looked nasty. Hollywood struggled with battle scenes.

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

Look up the actual battle. This is a film story that only represents the battle.

[@Hughesed]

Just bought the DVD on Amazon UK for approx. €20 incl. delivery to Ireland . A few left at that price but others can more expensive ☘️💚☘️

[@jackthepirate9233]

Same officer from the Bridge Over the River Kwai.

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

He got around, apparently.

[@Alanelliott-n9y]

Yep

[@dankreoger611]

He was in a Jerry Lewis movie also. The Geisha Boy. The pirate captain in Swiss Family Robinson. Yeh, he got around.

[@conservativesniperhunter7439]

Warner Bros should upload the whole movie for people to watch and enjoy. We can’t buy the movie as far as I am aware.

[@JohnCasciello]

About your wanting to see """HELL TO ETERNITY"" from 1960 with JEFFREY HUNTER & DAVID JANSSEN & JOHN LARCH (the Sargeant guy) simply TAP keyboard with these words== HELL TO ETERNITY--JEFFREY HUNTER--1960 = OK RU. and that's it as OK RU has thousands of movies from the 1930s up to about (as far as I know) the 1980s !!! And NOT ONE COMMERCIAL as the movies are same as buying them on VIDEO TAPES !!!! Thanks for your comment ****

[@conservativesniperhunter7439]

@ Thank you kindly 🙏👍.

[@timorvet1]

Wish they included the scene where Hunters character comes across the cave used by the Japanese General. Not knowing he speaks Japanese the General tells his staff to take him out, hearing this he takes them out instead.

[@Web-o2j]

GRACIAS BONITA

[@blank557]

The second battle scene was not over the top. The Japanese did indeed at time assembled as a mob, sang songs, blew bugles, some drunk like they were having a party, before they made their banzai attack. The Marines were amazed at such behavior. The Japanese knew they were going to die, so they worked themselves up to a frenzy to meet their inevitable death.

[@Slickrock72]

~4000 Japanese died, and ~600 Americans died, during this Banzai charge. The Japanese at one point overran American forward positions and turned the position machine guns around to shoot at advancing American soldiers. The Japanese actually did have one tank but it's turret was blown off very early in the battle. The flamethrower tank scenes were made-up Hollywood bullshit, this did not happen during that battle.

[@Crazyhorse75-u2z]

To think that this operation was happening the same time we were invading France, is remarkable.

[@davidmurray5399]

Aside from the M48 tanks the Americans were using, the scene where the Marines rushed out to face the "Banzai" charge in hand-to-hand combat is completely absurd. Marine and Army troops would call down a hurricane of mortar, artillery and naval gunfire; as well as use their machine gun teams to massacre any Japanese attack, "Banzai" or otherwise. Any Naval aviation in the area would add bomb, rocket, napalm and strafing to finish off whatever the ground forces didn't kill. The weapons are called "Ranged" for a reason, and that's how they were used.

[@bendaniel1466]

The M48 Patton tank was first introduced in 1952, 7 years after the end of WW II. These unrealistic Hollywood war dramas make me puke. Thank God for real portrayals of the true horrors of war like Saving Private Ryan & Hacksaw Ridge!

[@dereenaldoambun9158]

​@@bendaniel1466 Don't forget the Pacific as well. Love that series!

[@rick5793]

I fully understand that these are war "movies" BUT why didn't they have more grenade launchers or bazookas in the landing groups?? It would to me to be a 100% logical thing to do.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

The politicians spent all the money on lunches.

[@corneliucatana1241]

Good studio.

[@BigArnieNumeroUno]

Still trying to figure out how the Japanese managed to lose all the hand to hand combat at the end. Duds.

[@JefferyMckay-qy8tc]

My pawpaw survived the war, my dad wasborn 3yrd later. If he hadn't survived who knows who would've adopted me

[@kevinclarke1222]

@@JefferyMckay-qy8tc LOL!🥴😂

[@hunterventures2101]

wow those japanese were terrible at hand to hand fighting

[@christopherparrisjr.3146]

I think the filmmakers did that intentionally. It would've been a bad look if the Japanese were getting the better of the USMC. The DoD was involved in this production. Anything they're involved in has to make US troops look good.

[@sixmax11]

too busy digging those tunnels everywhere

[@dalanbronnenberg]

Those sure look like Patton tanks.

[@Trojan0304]

Have the dvd, needs upgrade to blue ray

[@bakary333]

May Allah guide us all ameen and protect us all ameen ❤️

[@Jeffery686]

Parents lost innocent son for the wrong Leader, pity on you.. God bless you all 🙏

[@hiku141]

日本人がろくに知らない映画のようです。テレビシリーズｐａｃｉｆｉｃみたいなものは、モノクロ映画時代にも作られていますよね。

[@piotrszczepanek4812]

Were are Rohan calvalry??

[@MichaelMartin-x3m]

What men, or boys I should say , that we had for soldiers and Marines fighting on those Death Islands in the South Pacific.

[@cesaralejandro7725]

Can you upload beanstalk bunny?

[@Iyuldanindrawatichannel]

FILM GOOD

[@İbrahimErgin-g4k]

Bu gerçek savaşdan mı? Yoksa filmden mi?

[@DokiIsABanger2017]

When a medieval movie director makes an WW2 movie

[@angloaust1575]

Jeff hunter david jannsen and vic damone

[@hannibalheyes339]

Saw the same Japanese soldier get shot 3 times

[@christopherparrisjr.3146]

I think Perry Lopez would've been a better casting choice for Gabaldon. I get why Jeffery Hunter got cast though (Hunter was better known and Hollywood was not as big on diversity or representation).

[@RonniedavidGamali-gl8gu]

🎉🎉❤❤

[@georgegriffiths8440]

Can anyone tell me what movie this is please.

[@PoochAndBoo]

I think the words "Hell to Eternity" in the post's title might give you a hint.

[@YokohamaStones]

逃亡者で人気だった、デビット・ジャンセンが出演していますね。史上最大の作戦のジェフリー・ハンターも出演しています。

[@jerryrichards8172]

That looks like Monterey or Carmel Beach?

[@remilekunakanny4816]

Title pls anyone ?

[@daleupthegrove6396]

Hell to Eternity 1960.

[@garywagner2466]

Look under the thumbnail.

[@LeonardSmith-qv8do]

Someone in the comments said something about this "clip" indicating it was actual film of the battle LOL NOooooo LOL

[@tennesseeridgerunner5992]

I didn't know Saipan and Southern California were so similar in appearance.

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

Oh, yes they were, and this film proves it! (hahahaha, jest kidden)

[@timsparks1858]

Saipan was attacked on the first wave with Amtraks not Higgins boats.

[@JefferyMckay-qy8tc]

Everyone laughed at the tiny round that was fired from officers rifles, but it is the mainstay round of thr us military today. .223 is the m-1/m-16 round used to this day

[@ΙννοκέντιοςΚοκκινογούλοφ]

13:51 The Beyond (1981).

[@ТатьянаВоронцова-з9д]

Как в сказке😂😂😂

[@ricardovargas1592]

TODOS HERÓIS.

[@wbwilhite]

Where was Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Antman, Aquaman, Iron Man, etc?

[@kurttate9446]

I think it’s usual practice to ditch the route packs before engaging in close combat.

[@garymckee63]

I didn't know that they had M 48 tanks in WWll 🙂🙃🫠

[@jerryrichards8172]

I remember this movie as one of those love triangle mostly talking type must have it mixed up with a other.

[@juanmanuelparadacontreras9565]

Una grata sorpresa ver estas escenas de este icónico filme del género bélico. El personaje de Jeffrey Hunter, que de niño se cría con una familia japonesa, debe ahora enfrentar a los nipones en un mortal duelo. Al final evita una matanza inútil al final de esta película.

[@charleshunter3595]

Japanese general told his lieutenant to go grab him a sammich

[@ibeetellingya5683]

It's kind of amazing even surreal how innacurate and ineffective the navel bombardment back then could be to even exposed and partially exposed positions due to limited targeting and reconnaissance resources. Imagine the US had drones.

[@kenjosten2198]

M1 carbines with bayonet lugs 🤔

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

I had one with bayonet lugs, yep.

[@ww2remembered983]

Yeah, but none fixed as they charged up the hill for hand to hand combat....

[@kenjosten2198]

They were considered post war carbines,still a G.l. model.

[@Signaman-z9d]

They were still doing frontal attacks in WW2. The Korean civil war the Vietnam war and Seventy year's later the N Koreans are still doing it in Ukraine. 😱

[@RichardGreen-ub3db]

No bayonets. Guess no friendly cutting risked.

[@electrichellion5946]

Those are the worst looking replicas of Japanese tanks I’ve ever seen in a movie. Neither side used large tanks in the island campaign. Sherman being the largest.

[@bennikdk_4927]

both sides made a banzai attack.....the movie is so stupid. XD

[@西山龍-c5p]

みなさん 日本てすごいですよね 世界中を相手に戦をして 世界各国対日本ですよ 私はお祖父さん祖先に頭が上がりません その精神を受け継ぎます 天皇陛下万歳

[@cameronkedas3375]

@西山龍-c5p Japan was one of the most evil forces in the world from the 30s-40s. They sure weren’t an amazing country in that time period. I would’ve rather gone to Vietnam and come back being disrespected by my own fellow Americans than serve for your emperor. 日本は30年代から40年代にかけて世界で最も邪悪な国の一つでした。あの時代、日本は決して素晴らしい国ではありませんでした。私は、天皇陛下に仕えるよりも、ベトナムに行って、同じアメリカ人から軽蔑されて帰ってきたほうがましだ。

[@congtrangle8047]

Tôi thật sự ko biết đây chỉ là đóng phim hay phim tài liệu

[@UrsaMajorPrime]

Movie

[@選手アマチュア]

超大国の米国は軍隊も最強でした。日本軍が緒戦に戦った比島の植民地軍とは雲泥の差でした

[@josevicentejrmeneses8552]

what the h**** are those frankintanks HA-GO 48 ???

[@geoffprice5357]

Loosely based on Leon Uris book "Battle Cry"? If so, very.

[@exceptionallyaverage3075]

Nah. Battle cry was the 6th Marines, Hell to Eternity was the 2nd Marines. The Battle Cry novel was the basis for the Battle Cry movie.

[@geoffprice5357]

@@exceptionallyaverage3075 goodo, my bad

[@exceptionallyaverage3075]

@geoffprice5357 You're good. I had an advantage. I'm almost as old as the Battle Cry novel, and I'm older than the Hell to Eternity novel.

[@geoffprice5357]

@@exceptionallyaverage3075 I need to take more notice, i've read Battle Cry at least 3 times......"They call me Mac"...............

[@exceptionallyaverage3075]

@geoffprice5357 I've read it twice. If I knew which box it was in, I'd read it again.

[@JinHunter-jh1ui]

The actor of the film whose facial expression does not match the war situation is taking place

[@callind3790]

Just think about all the insects that were killed

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

Just another one of the horrors of war, my son.

[@ОльгаЖукова-ж4д]

У мужиков-другой ум. Они все хорошие.

[@amaree9732]

That has to be the lamest scene in film history. Why take a Bansi attack head on with bayonets, when you can simply fire from cover and wipe them out from a distance?

[@冴羽獠-t4j]

将軍役は早川雪舟か

[@reyramirez1817]

NO GOOD

[@salvor1]

guys running at each other with rifles. pitiful.

[@petehoney1]

makes war look fun and easy ..