Beach Red

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 Japaneseheld Pacific island thought to be Red Beach, Palo, Leyte in the Philippines. However, there were no Marine landings anywhere in the Philippines. The film is based on Peter Bowmans 1945 novella of the same name, which was based on his experiences with the United States Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific Islands campaigns.

The 30minute opening sequence of the film depicts an opposed beach landing. Its graphic depiction of the violence and savagery of war was echoed thirty years later in Steven Spielbergs Saving Private Ryan. In one scene during the landing a Marine is shown with his arm blown off, similar to Thomas C. Lea IIIs 1944 painting The Price.As Americans are shown consolidating their gains, flashbacks illustrate the lives of American and Japanese combatants. Shifting firstperson voiceover in a stream of consciousness style is also used to portray thoughts of numerous characters. Like Wildes previous production of The Naked Prey 1965, the film does not use subtitles for characters speaking Japanese. ........

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