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Cornel Wilde (Actor, Director), Rip Torn (Actor) Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Cornel Wilde, Rip Torn, Burr DeBenning
  • Directors: Cornel Wilde
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: 101 Films
  • DVD Release Date: 3 Nov. 2014
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00LI3ZQSE
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 22,837 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Cornel Wilde produced directed and starred 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.

The usual cliché characters are replaced by believable portrayals, 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.

A harsh, unromanticised look at the Big One, over thirty years before Steven Spielberg did it with Saving Private Ryan.

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3.0 out of 5 starsChose carefully for the best version available.
By Mr. Derek Bebb on 15 Oct. 2015
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There's a decent film inside the arty-farty directorial quirks that Wilde indulges himself in what is basically a war film with decent acting and excellent action and some unforgettable scenes. Other reviewers have already described the plot and the sometimes strange premonitions of other films but I must warn you about the poor quality of this recording from 101 Films!
One reviewer describes the print as pristine, whereas my copy hasn't got the crispness I expected (the battle scenes from obviously taken from contemporary newsreels are almost better that the scenes filmed for the movie!) and the sound is generally very poor, sometimes too loud and other times too quiet.
Obviously there are other versions out there but Amazon as usual makes no effort to sort them out, giving the same stars for all versions!
For this version: the film itself 4+++, for the quality of the recording 2+++.
I find 101 Films usually excellent (especially the westerns) but this was a great disappointment.
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3.0 out of 5 starsA barely average film of unequal quality, mixing good and bad moments
By Maciej TOP 500 REVIEWER on 3 Feb. 2014
Format: DVD
I found this 1967 war film watchable, but nothing else. Below, more of my impressions, with some SPOILERS.

This film describes the fight for a large island during Pacific War and follows the tribulations of one company of USMC and their Japanese adversaries. The place of action is never named, we just know that the beach on which this one company lands is code named "Red". The island is however very large and as we know also that the initial stage of Bougainville Campaign (November-December 1943) is already over, the battle described here could be that of Saipan (June-July 1944) or Guam (July-August 1944).

The film begins with the landing itself, which is opposed immediately on the beaches and costs Americans some casualties - but is nowhere near as hellish as the legendary slaughters on Tarawa or on Omaha Beach. Some reviewers claimed that this film inspired the initial sequences from "Saving Private Ryan", but it is unlikely - the intensity of the landing fight in "Beach Red" is far, far lesser than in Spielberg's master-piece.

After the initial battle the Marines move inland, meeting first an improvised line of defense with machine gun nests and then a more substantial obstacle, with pillboxes made in concrete (like on Saipan). That battle is tougher and American tanks get involved - and then we enter the jungle, with all its deadly attractions...

Cornel Wilde, who directed this film, was inspired by a novella published under the same title in 1945 by a veteran of Pacific War, but this being the Vietnam War era he changed the general tone in order to turn his film into an anti-war manifesto - and that didn't do this movie any good.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent war film which anticipates Private Ryan
By Richard Bowden on 30 Oct. 2009
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A fair screen performer, Cornel Wilde occasionally appeared in more interesting fare, such as the cult B-noir The Big Combo (1955). Of greater interest still is Wilde's career as a director that, with the tense drama of Storm Fear, started the same year as Combo. Although not a fully mature work, it still suggested some of the themes that would inform Wilde's later films as minor auteur: a concern with man confronting the elemental, whether externally or internally, and a fondness for extreme situations.

From the mid 1960s onwards Wilde made a remarkable trilogy of work in quick succession: The Naked Prey (1966), Beach Red, and No Blade Of Grass (1970), which are the films upon which his directorial reputation rests principally today. Each concerns a journey of one sort or another, in which men must differently face up to the primitive impulse within themselves as the comforting supports of civilised society stripped away. Thus in The Naked Prey a European is pursued by relentless natives across a bleak African wilderness. In No Blade Of Grass a party of English refugees and survivors have to navigate a post-catastrophe landscape. Beach Red sees soldiers face up to their innermost fears and regrets during the bloody battle for a Pacific island. Typically in Wilde's work, a stricken or unforgiving world reflects back the straits in which the main characters find themselves whilst any final resolution is, at best, ambivalent. In Beach Red this environment is lush and dangerous, full of both natural and human perils (at one point the director gives a litany of killer flora and fauna), but one where the greatest threat to man is Man himself.

Some critics have compared Wilde's cinema to that of Sam Fuller. Both forge personal cinema with an own, urgent vision.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA great film with an anti war theme.
By Colm O' Driscoll on 1 July 2011
Format: DVD
Beach Red was made a long time before Spielbergs ' Private Ryan', there are scenes in 'Private Ryan' which were obviously copied from ' Beach Red'.
Beach Red was a very good, but an under rated film at the time of it's release. Cornel Wilde made a film about the horrors and tragedy of war, but he also had moments in it which gave you a laugh, because it was about people and the things which come naturally to people, irrespective of their situations.
Because it didn't show the glam side of war, but the horror side, the critics didn't give it a good review. But it was acknowledged by war veterans as being honest and realistic.
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