Beach Red (1967) | |
| Director(s) | Cornel Wilde |
| Producer(s) | Cornel Wilde |
| Top Genres | Action, Drama, War |
| Top Topics | World War II |
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Beach Red (1967) was a Drama - War Film directed by Cornel Wilde and produced by Cornel Wilde.
Academy Awards 1967 --- Ceremony Number 40 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Film Editing | Frank P. Keller | Nominated |
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The film utilized actual real color combat footage provided by the U.S. Marine Corps filmed during military campaigns in the Pacific Islands.
The opening landing sequence in the Steven Spielberg World War II movie Saving Private Ryan is considered similar to the same in this movie.
Peter Bowman's uniquely constructed novel "Beach Red" was published in 1945, near the end of World War II. The book chronicles an assault landing on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific and the subsequent advance of a four-man Army recon patrol in the jungle, through the thoughts of one of its members. A contemporary review of the book stated the novel "looks like unrhymed verse, but...author Bowman stoutly insists (it) is "sprung prose." A modern-day reviewer accurately described "Beach Red" as "...not a novel. It is a 61-page prose poem, organized in non-rhyming stanzas with varying numbers of lines in each stanza."
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The opening landing sequence in the Steven Spielberg World War II movie Saving Private Ryan is considered similar to the same in this movie.
Peter Bowman's uniquely constructed novel "Beach Red" was published in 1945, near the end of World War II. The book chronicles an assault landing on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific and the subsequent advance of a four-man Army recon patrol in the jungle, through the thoughts of one of its members. A contemporary review of the book stated the novel "looks like unrhymed verse, but...author Bowman stoutly insists (it) is "sprung prose." A modern-day reviewer accurately described "Beach Red" as "...not a novel. It is a 61-page prose poem, organized in non-rhyming stanzas with varying numbers of lines in each stanza."
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