If a war movie has no body, it had better have plenty of soul. Hell in the Pacific is as immaterial as a fog, but it offers two soulful professionals: Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune.
In the waning days of World War II, a Marine pilot (Marvin) bails out over a tiny island in Micronesia. Like Robinson Crusoe, he mistakenly believes that he is all alone. His Friday, however, turns out to be a Japanese officer (Mifune), also beached for the duration.
Feinting and fighting, the two engage in their own mixed-up, microcosmic version...
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