Beach Red [Blu-ray]

Beach Red [Blu-ray]

Director: Cornel Wilde Cast: Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde
, Rip Torn
Rip Torn
, Patrick Wolfe
Patrick Wolfe
, Dewey Stringer III
Dewey Stringer III
Cornel Wilde
Beach Red [Blu-ray]

Beach Red [Blu-ray]

Director: Cornel Wilde Cast: Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde
, Rip Torn
Rip Torn
, Patrick Wolfe
Patrick Wolfe
, Dewey Stringer III
Dewey Stringer III
Cornel Wilde

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Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date: 01/05/2021
UPC: 0738329251802
Original Release: 1967
Rating: NR
Source: Kl Studio Classics
Language: English
Time: 1:45:00
Sales rank: 34,301

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Cornel Wilde Capt. MacDonald/Narrator
Rip Torn Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
Patrick Wolfe Pvt. Joseph Joshua Cliff
Dewey Stringer III Mouse
Jean Wallace Julie MacDonald
Linda Albertano Girl in Baltimore
Jan Garrison Susie
Gene Blakely Goldberg
Genki Koyama Col. Sugiyama
Fred Galang Lt. Domingo
Dale Ishimoto Capt. Tanaka
Michael Parsons Sgt. Lindstrom
Jaime Sanchez Colombo
Norman Pak Nakano
Michio Hazama Capt. Kondo
Masako Ohtsuki Sugiyama's Wife
Burr de Benning Egan
Norman Pale Nikato
Charles Weaver Actor
John Allen Actor
Bill Dunbar Squad soldier Pvt Bill
Antonio Buenaventura Composer

Technical Credits
Cornel Wilde Producer,Director
Clint Johnson Screenwriter
Don Peters Screenwriter
Jefferson Pascal Screenwriter
Paul Pollard Special Effects
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