Five Gates to Hell (1959)
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The celebrated author of 1975's Shogun, James Clavell, directs (and produced and wrote) this effective, if low-budget World War II drama. The story takes place in French Indochina (later Vietnam) where a group of two Red Cross doctors and seven nurses are captured by a guerrilla band and taken to the side of a grievously ill warlord. The realities of war and its effects on everyone are brought forward as the doctors are eventually killed, and the nurses use sex as a means of escaping their captors. Brutal scenes of the stabbing of a patient under surgery and the symbolic murder of a nun are qualified by the even-handed portrayal of the damage war does to the human side of human nature. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Neville Brand - Chen Pamok
- Ken Scott - Dr. John Richter
- Patricia Owens - Joy
- Nobu McCarthy - Chioko
- Nancy Kulp - Susette
- Irish McCalla - Sister Magdelana
- Dolores Michaels - Athena
- Benson Fong - Gung Sa
- John Morley - Dr. Jacques Minelle
- Gerry Gaylor - Greta
- Greta Chi - Yoette
- Linda Wong - Ming Cha
- Shirley Knight - Sister Maria
- Director(s):
- James Clavell
- Writer(s):
- James Clavell
- Producer(s):
- James Clavell
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