Hell in the Pacific (1968) - Lee Marvin Sings

[TheMarcio2014]

BIG LEE MARVIN!!!!

[bororean]

Such a great and underrated film

[Banner1979]

The ending was powerful and sad.  These two guys are getting along fine when Mifune looks at a newspaper, then all hell breaks loose - well, a sort of psychological hell...

[Nornegest]

Which version did you watch? There is an alternative ending to the one in the original cinema release. Very tense, with no dialogue spoken at all. After his attempts at reconciliation are rebuffed, Marvin looks sadly at Mifune, then walks out alone, into the dusk.

I certainly prefer this ending, even if differs from the theatrical cut which burns so vividly in my memory, as it is clearly the more superior of the two and a satisfying way to end the film. Others may feel differently, I guess.

[Banner1979]

@Nornegest It was the theatrical version I watched. The ending was the one where Marvin shouts at Mifune who walks away (I think) and then the last shot is of that magazine about the slain Japanese. That's the one.

[hill9868]

"IIIIIII wwaass bbooornnnn......under a wwaaaandderinnngg staaarrrrr....". Oh, hang on that was Lee Marvin singing in another movie.

[ossarider]

The greatest scene of this film...Marvin and Mifune together on the flooding raft, riding out the rough seas...delirious, dehydrated, exhausted, but hanging on with the will to survive, totally at the mercy of nature...no political doctrines, no economic interests, no tactical considerations or organization...just the instinct to cling onto life. Should be better known.