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Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1957
Box Office Collection 1,520,000 USD
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!"
Filmed mostly in Southern Californa at the Twentieth Century-Fox ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains. The beach landing, however, was filmed on the island of O'ahu in Hawaii.
Scatman Crothers was listed in the credits, but his part was cut from the final version.
The novel by Francis Gwaltney on which this film is based, "The Day the Century Ended", was also the film's working title.
Guy Madison was considered for the lead role of Pvt. Sam Gifford, which eventually went to Robert Wagner.
"Capt. 'Waco' Grimes - 'G' Co. CO: I've heard about you Gifford. First you go get yourself a Silver Star, then you get busted to Private. Oh it's a rough war, innit? Pvt. Sam Francis Gifford: Yes sir. Capt. 'Waco' Grimes - 'G' Co. CO: Didn't you hear what I said about calling me sir? Pvt. Sam Francis Gifford: I'm sorry, uh, Waco. Capt. 'Waco' Grimes - 'G' Co. CO: I don't want snipers taking potshots at me every time one of you guys call me sir."
