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Release Date: 1967

Cast: Gene Blakely, Fred Galang, Norman Pak, Genki Koyama, Dale Ishimoto, Jaime Sánchez, Jean Wallace, Michael Parsons, Cornel Wilde, Hiroshi Kiyama, Patrick Wolfe, Dewey Stringer ...MORE

Cast: Gene Blakely, Fred Galang, Norman Pak, Genki Koyama, Dale Ishimoto, Jaime Sánchez, Jean Wallace, Michael Parsons, Cornel Wilde, Hiroshi Kiyama, Patrick Wolfe, Dewey Stringer, Rip Torn ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Action/Adventure, Combat Films, Action, War film

Beach Red is a 1967 World War II film starring Cornel Wilde (who also directed) and Rip Torn. The film depicts a landing by the U.S. Marine Corps on an unnamed Japanese held Pacific island. A reference to the recent Bougainville Campaign early in the film presumably dates the action to November 1943 or later. The film is based on a lengthy piece of prose, not quite a novel written by Peter Bowman based on his experiences with the US Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific Islands campaigns. The opening sequence of an opposed beach landing bears a stylistic resemblance to Saving Private... MORE

Beach Red is a 1967 World War II film starring Cornel Wilde (who also directed) and Rip Torn. The film depicts a landing by the U.S. Marine Corps on an unnamed Japanese held Pacific island. A reference to the recent Bougainville Campaign early in the film presumably dates the action to November 1943 or later. The film is based on a lengthy piece of prose, not quite a novel written by Peter Bowman based on his experiences with the US Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific Islands campaigns. The opening sequence of an opposed beach landing bears a stylistic resemblance to Saving Private Ryan, even though there is more than thirty years between the productions. In one scene during the landing a Marine is shown with his arm blown off similar to Tom Lea's painting The Price. As Americans are shown consolidating their gains, flashbacks illustrate the lives of American and Japanese combatants. Shifting first person voice over in a stream of consciousness style is also used to portray thoughts of numerous characters. Like Wilde's previous production of The Naked Prey the film does not use subtitles for characters speaking Japanese. The film only has one musical theme, a song by written LESS