L'enfer du Pacifique

Titre original : Pacific Inferno

1979
13+
1h 29m

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueAfter the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy h... Tout lireAfter the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy hands. Among the prisoners the Japanese have taken are two American U.S. Navy deep-sea dive... Tout lireAfter the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy hands. Among the prisoners the Japanese have taken are two American U.S. Navy deep-sea divers, whom they then force to dive in search of the sunken treasure.

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Anecdotes
Filmed in 1977, released briefly in 1979, re-released in 1985.

Gaffes
Some of the Filipino resistance can be seen armed with M3 Grease Guns. These weapons were not available in the Pacific theater in 1942, barely being into production by that time. certainly not in the hands of occupied resistance personnel.

Générique farfelu
Opening credits prologue:

It is a fact of history that in 1942 General MacArthur ordered General Wainwright to dump $16,000,000 in silver pesos into Manila Bay to prevent their capture and use by the invading Japanese Army.

Connexions
Features Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Bandes originales
FLASHBACK
Sung by Dee Dee Sharp (as Dee Dee Sharp Gamble)
Words and Music By M. Burton and P. Terry

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You can't go home again (see: 'Dirty Dozen')

My review was written in February 1985 after watching the film on Media Home Entertainment video cassette.

"Pacific Inferno" is actor-athlete Jim Brown's unsuccessful attempt to enter the film producer ranks, a dull low-budgeter imitating his 1967 "The Dirty Dozen" hit. Picture was lensed in the Philippines in 1977 under titles "Ship of Sand" and "Do They Ever Cry in America?", never released domestically and now surfacing for home video fans.

Picture takes almost 10 minutes to get started, limning the W. W. II story of captured U. S. navy divers forced by the Japanese to recover $16,000,000 in silver pesos dumped in Manila Bay in 1942 by orders of Gen. MacArthur (to avoid their falling into Japanese hands). Racist white Lt. Dennis (Rik von Nutter) is ranking officer among the Yanks, though Preston (Jim Brown) is their natural leader.

Preston works with Filipino prisoner Troy (Dindo Fernando) to organize an escape, in return for getting the silver pesos to the local partisans. Pic climaxes with Brown duplicating his "Dirty Dozen" brokenfield running with explosives in hand, abetted by teammate from that earlier film, Richard Jaeckel.

Physical production is deficient, with anachronistic hairstyles and attitudes taken from the 1970s. Casting is a joke, as Filipino film regular Vic Diaz plays a nasty Japanese and busty black actress-singer Wilma Reading is introed as a Filipino partisan. Brown's thank you credits are extended to Hugh Hefner, Don Cornelius, Maurice White, Bill Russell and Richard Pryor (last-named briefly his latterday employer at Indigo Productions), among others.