Beach Red (1967)
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42% of users liked it
(1,852 ratings)
Cornel Wilde produced, directed, and stars in this sincere, hard-edged look at World War II that doesn't flinch from the horrors of battle. The action takes place during a single American campaign to take an island held by the Japanese. Brief flashbacks to civilian life are the only escape from… More Cornel Wilde produced, directed, and stars in this sincere, hard-edged look at World War II that doesn't flinch from the horrors of battle. The action takes place during a single American campaign to take an island held by the Japanese. Brief flashbacks to civilian life are the only escape from the gritty, dreary setting. The usual cliché characters are replaced by new ones, such as the captain (Wilde) who loves his wife but hates the war, the sergeant (Rip Torn) who gets sadistic pleasure out of battle, the minister's son (Patrick Wolfe) who keeps remembering the girl he left back home, and the Southern illiterate (Burr DeBenning) who finds a place for himself in the Marines. The screenplay (from a 1945 novel by Peter Bowman) avoids stereotypes yet doesn't make any of these men into fleshed-out characters. Still, the acting is solid and Wilde deserves commendation for taking a harsh, unromanticized look at the Big One, over thirty years before Steven Spielberg did it with Saving Private Ryan. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi
- Directed By
- Cornel Wilde
- Written By
- Peter Bowman, Clint Johnston
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Aug 3, 1967 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Cornel Wilde (better known as actor) directed and starrted in this brutal, Oscar-nominated WWII drama, which offers a very focused view of men in combat
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
This neglected war film is as rough and tumble as any Sam Fuller film, as poignant a reflection of the racial divides in the military as any WW11 film made before the 1960s.
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Shane Burridge, rec.arts.movies.reviews
Despite all the action and violence it's the peaceful moments that linger
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Cast
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Cornel Wilde
as Capt. MacDonald
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Rip Torn
as Sgt. Honeywell
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Burr De Benning
as Egan
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Patrick Wolfe
as Cliff
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Jean Wallace
as Julie MacDonald
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Jaime Sánchez
as Colombo
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Genki Koyama
as Col. Sugiyama
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Gene Blakely
as Goldberg
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Fred Galang
as Lieutenant Domingo
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Linda Albertano
as Tall Girl
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Jan Garrison
as Susie
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Dale Ishimoto
as Capt. Tanaka
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Norman Pale
as Nikato
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Michael Parsons
as Sgt. Lindstrom
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Dewey Stinger III
as Mouse
- John Allen
- Charles Weaver
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Bill Dunbar
as Squad soldier Pvt Bill
- Burr DeBenning
- Dewey Stringer
- Hiroshi Kiyama
- Norman Pak
