Between Heaven and Hell

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Release year: 1956

Storyline

The spoiled rich son of a wealthy Southerner is changed by his experiences in the Pacific during World War II.

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

Did you know

• When Twentieth Century-Fox bought the rights to the Francis Gwaltney novel "The Day the Century Ended", it hired The Twilight Zone (1959) television-playwright and Philippines war veteran Rod Serling to write the script. During World War II, Serling was a paratrooper in the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 11th Airborne Division. However, his draft script was deemed too long and rejected. Other writers were then assigned script duties. He does not receive a writer's credit, so it's not known how much of his work wound up in the final script. He once told of his involvement on this movie, "My first screen job was at Fox on a war flick called 'Between Heaven and Hell'. I turned in a script that would have run for nine hours on the screen. As I recall, it was over 500 pages. I didn't know what the hell I was doing. They just said ''Here's 1500 bucks a week--write!" So I wrote. They eventually took the thing away from me and handed it over to six other writers, but I lay claim to the fact that my version had some wonderful moments in it. In nine hours of script, by God, there HAVE to be a couple of wonderful moments!"

• Scatman Crothers was listed in the credits, but his part was cut from the final version.

• Filmed mostly in Southern California at the Twentieth Century-Fox ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains. However, the beach landing was filmed on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

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Sound mix

4-Track Stereo

Aspect ratio

2.35 : 1

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