Product Details

• Actors: Richard Jaeckel
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Bci / Eclipse
• DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00062IZIQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #365,613 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

After the fall of the Philippines in World War II the Japanese discovered that Gen. Douglas MacArthur ordered $16 million of silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it would not wind up in enemy hands. Among the prisoners the Japanese have taken are two U.S. Navy deep-sea divers (Jim Brown & Rick Van Nutter) who they then force to dive in search of the sunken treasure.System Requirements: Running Time 90 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR UPC: 787364471195

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Japanese, American, Filipino, March 2, 2008

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E. Drake - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pacific Inferno (DVD)

This is a low-budget blaxploitation flick, with very little of what you may come to expect of a blaxploitation movie. There were about two soul/funk songs, a brief encounter of racism and another brief encounter of a beautiful actress with very little sexual tension stirring. For language buffs, Japanese is spoken as is a language of the Philippines, which may or may not be Tagalog. I also recall a sentence or two in Spanish, though I may be mistaken. This version of the movie is very grainy, which adds to the already unappealing nature of the movie. This is not to say that this was a horrible flick, however don't get ready to see a good one either. For 2.99 in a supermarket's DVD bin, I felt it worth the buy for nothing more than another blaxploitation movie added to my collection. On a last note, there are two fun scenes worth mentioning. One where Jim Brown plays on his football days and catches, passes and runs with a bomb, the other, a surreal scene of deep water floating goat carcasses.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bottom of the barrel dreck, February 29, 2008

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F. J. Harvey "Cricket ,country music and a go... (Birmingham England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pacific Inferno (DVD)

This movie about World War 2 in the Pacific was made in 1979 but did not see the light of day until a video release in the mid 1980's .Jim Brown -who also co-produced the picture -plays Clyde Preston a US Navy diver compelled by the conquering Japanese to lead a team of largely US divers in diving in Manila Bay to recover the consignment of silver dumped there by MacArthur to ensure it did not fall into Japanese hands .The team includes Zoe (Tim Brown),the composed and astute Dealer (Richard Jaeckel) and the argumentative Dennis (Rik Van Nutter).Aided by the local Filipino resistance they set out to delay and sabotage the project ,a key role being played by atractive and feisty Tita (Dindo Fernandez)of the resistance .The Japanese lose patience and call in the big cheese to sort things out.
Jaeckel apart this is poorly acted and the direction is soporific.The use of anachronistic songs on the soundtrack is also an irritant especially that bombastic sloganeering pile of musical pigeon poop Edwin Starr's "War"( A desperate bid for "relevance"perhaps.?)
Action scenes are poorly staged and the one plus point is the location shooting in the Philippines .The scenery is splendid but unfortunately some rather poor actors spend too much time standing in front of it and obscuring the view

Best avoided unless you are a Pacific war completist in which case it has curiosity appeal