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Director
  
Monte Hellman

Music director
  
Miguel Velarde, Jr.

Country
  
United States

5.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
War, Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
November 15, 1964 (1964-11-15)

Writer
  
Richard A. Guttman (screenplay), John Hackett (screenplay), Richard A. Guttman (story)

Screenplay
  
John Hackett, Richard A. Guttman

Cast
  
Jack Nicholson
(Burnett),
Jimmie Rodgers
(Lt Craig),
Annabelle Huggins
(Maria),
John Hackett
(Jersey),
Conrad Maga
(Paco)

Similar movies
  
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950), Back to Bataan (1945), Ambush Bay (1966), Battle at Bloody Beach (1961), Suicide Battalion (1958)

Back Door to Hell is a 1964 film concerning a three-man team of United States soldiers preparing the way for Gen. MacArthur's World War II return to the Philippines by destroying a Japanese communications center. It was produced on a relatively small budget and received lukewarm reviews, and is most notable as one of Jack Nicholson's earlier roles. Hellman, Nicholson and Hackett also made the film back to back with Flight to Fury (1964).

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Cast

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  • Jimmie Rodgers as Lt. Craig
  • Jack Nicholson as Burnett
  • John Hackett as Jersey
  • Annabelle Huggins as Maria
  • Conrad Maga as Paco
  • Johnny Monteiro as Ramundo
  • Joe Sison as Japanese Capt.
  • Henry Duval as Garde
  • Ben Perez
  • Vic Uematsu

    • Production

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    Robert Lippert had been impressed by Jack Nicholson's Thunder Island so gave Nicholson and his friends Monte Hellman and John Hackett $160,000 and $400 a week salary to make two films on location in the Philippines. The three men and Hellman's wife and child travelled 28 days by ship via Hawaii, Hong Kong and Japan with the three working on the screenplays to both films on the voyage. Back Door to Hell was a rewrite on one of Lippert's existing screenplays. Popular singer Jimmie Rodgers had a substantial part in the film, and co-financed it.

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    The film, directed by Monte Hellman, was shot on location in the Philippines, giving it a particularly authentic look. The same plot was reused in Ib Melchior's Ambush Bay (1966) with a larger Marine patrol destroying a minefield prior to the American and Filipino invasion of the Philippines.


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    References

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