Beach Red (1967) on Netflix
American Marines storm a Japanese-held Pacific island and push inland while the defenders plan a counterattack. Captain MacDonald and Sergeant Honeywell are among the Americans ashore.
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Plot summary
American Marines come ashore on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific and push inland. On the other side, Captain Tanaka and Colonel Sugiyama prepare a counterattack. The story moves between the two armies, and the soldiers on each side think back to the wives and families they left behind, seen in flashbacks and still photographs. Narration in a shifting first-person style carries their inner voices across the fighting. Among the Americans are Sergeant Honeywell, the cameraman Goldberg, Cliff, Egan, Colombo and Mouse. The landing takes up a long stretch of the fighting, the Marines on the beach before they reach the jungle.
Cast
- Genki Koyamaas Colonel Sugiyama
- Michael Parsonsas Sergeant Lindstrom
- Norman Pakas Nakano
- Dewey Stringeras Mouse
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Beach Red (1967)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- When Wilde sought help from the U.S. Marine Corps he was told that, with the Vietnam War taking everything, all it could provide was color stock footage shot during the Pacific War. It had deteriorated, so he spent a considerable part of the budget restoring it, and the Corps was grateful to have its historical film restored at no cost.
- The film's 30-minute opening sequence, with its graphic depiction of the violence and savagery of war, was echoed years later in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.
- The title comes from real practice: Allied amphibious operations in World War II gave invasion beaches color codenames such as "Beach Red", "Beach White" and "Beach Blue", and there was a "Beach Red" on virtually every assaulted island.
- As in Wilde's previous production of The Naked Prey, the film uses no subtitles for its non-English dialogue, which in this case is Japanese.
