Brad Dexter, Broderick Crawford, Buddy Ebsen, Robert Keith, Robert Wagner, Terry Moore - Director: Richard Fleischer "Between Heaven and Hell" opens with Sam Gifford (Robert Wagner) in action on an island in the Pacific. This film is not merely a straightforward Pacific war story, and Gifford is not just a simple hero. Flash backs to Gifford's life as a rich plantation owner, reveil him as being contemptuous of his sharecroppers, whether they are white or black, ignoring his wife Jenny's (Terry Moore) pleas to treat them better. In battle, Gifford gets the shakes and is sent, despite his combat nerves, into the interior.