Bloody beach
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bloody beach |
| Original title | Beach Red |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Cornel Wilde |
| script | Cornel Wilde, Clint Johnston , Don Peters |
| production | Cornel Wilde |
| camera | Cecil R. Cooney |
| cut | Frank P. Keller |
| occupation | |
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Bloody Beach (Original Title: Beach Red ) is an American war film by Cornel Wilde from 1967. The film, on whose screenplay director, leading actor and producer Wilde worked under the pseudonym Jefferson Pascal , is based on the novel by Peter Bowman. The German premiere was on April 26, 1968.
action
During the war in the Pacific, a battalion of US Marines lands on an island in the Philippines that is occupied by the Japanese. Under the command of Captain McDonald, the soldiers fight their way forward, but suffer heavy losses in the process. McDonald is wounded in the shoulder, but leads his people further into a wooded area. A warehouse will be set up there. The Americans go in search of their enemies.
During a break in combat, the soldiers remember their civil life. The Japanese soldiers under the command of Captain Tanaka also think of their families and their homeland. McDonald sends the nervous youth Cliff, whose father is a pastor, and the womanizer Egan on a fact-finding mission. They can broadcast enemy positions by radio, but they are ambushed on their way back. Egan is killed, Cliff and the young Japanese Nakano are badly wounded. Cliff feels sorry and gives Nakano his canteen. In return, Nakano offers Cliff his cigarettes. At that moment, the sadistic sergeant Honeywell reaches the two wounded and kills the young Japanese. Captain McDonald looks around and laments the madness of the war.
background
Cornel Wilde worked here for the third time in the personal union of director, producer, leading actor and screenwriter. For Burr DeBenning it was the first role in a movie, for Jean Wallace the penultimate. The soldiers of the Japanese army were portrayed by members of the Filipino army. The film's military adviser was Col. James C. Murray.
The film manages with just one piece of music, the title song, which was composed by Antonino Buenaventura and sung by Joan Wallace.
Reviews
For the Lexicon of International Films , Bloody Beach was “a conventional film that does not clearly convey its theme of exposing the war as inhuman. The overly bold depiction of war atrocities affects the intended effect. ”The Protestant film observer came to a similar assessment:“ Hero song of the US Mariners from World War II with a slight anti-war twist. The attempt to plead for mutual understanding failed. The expressiveness is too low, the sadistic predominates. ”The film magazine Cinema, on the other hand, found the film“ gripping ”. Special mention was made of the “realistically staged landing”.
Variety also saw the film positively at the time. He has an "honest statement" that the "absence of the usual stereotypes" is noticeable. Channel 4 highlighted Wilde's use of flashbacks that "add psychological depth" to the film.
Awards
Editor Frank P. Keller was nominated for two awards in 1968: for an Oscar ( Best Editing ) and for "Eddie" by the American Cinema Editors.
Web links
- Bloody beach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bloody Beach. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Film-Beobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 217/1968.
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ See Beach Red . In: Variety , 1968.
- ↑ See channel4.com