Back Door to Hell
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| Back Door to Hell | |
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| Directed by | Monte Hellman |
| Produced by | Fred Roos |
| Written by | John Hackett (actor) |
| Starring | Jimmie Rodgers John Hackett (actor) Jack Nicholson |
| Music by | Mike Velarde |
| Cinematography | Mars Rasca |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
| Release date(s) | 1964 |
| Running time | 75 min. |
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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 earliest roles. Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer) had a substantial part in the film, and co-financed it.
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 invasion of the Philippines.
