Atmospheric and evocative cinematography by Cecil Cooney. Combat images are naturally, well filmed and effective, getting spectacular scenes such as the impressive plane attacks on the ending. Dealing with the inner thoughts, feeling and philosophical leaning of the soldiers, the picture sacrifices continuity to study several questions, utilizing records, memories and many other things. The film brings home the true horror of battle and the meaninglessness of it all and visually is stunning. This dark story produced/acted/directed by Wilde is immensely exciting, firmly characterized on its roles and in places very moving too. The sequence in which Japanese troops tried to fool the US Marines by wearing their uniforms was taken directly from the source novel. Interesting screenplay based on Peter Bowman's uniquely constructed novel "Beach Red", it was published in 1945, near the end of World War II. While the relationship between captain and his men makes the biggest impression and delivers the interesting main plot, among many sub-plots, some of which go nowhere. Effectively portrays the dehumanizing psychological effects, battling soldiers on both sides are haunted by memories of home and the terrifying, sickening images they experience in combat, and using flashbacks by means of photos and images about their past existences. It is first hand account of a notorious battle on a Pacific island, and against an important base on a solitary atoll. What follows are a series of bloody attacks, on the beach, jungles, mountains in which the rifle company fighting Japanese who hold killers gun-machines and other deadly weapons. As an US marine unit formed by Captain MacDonald (Cornel Wilde), Sergeant Honeywell (Rip Torn) and Privates (Jaime Sánchez, Burr DeBenning, Patrick Wolfe) fight against the defenders of a Japanese held island, both sides are haunted by their own thoughts and memories as battle experience hardens soldiers. At the beginning the American Marines ashore on a Japanese-held island. This is a thought-provoking as well as exciting wartime film about a spectacular battle for an essential island on the Pacific toll in which a typical crew of Marines fighting the ¨Yellow Menace¨ and it considered to be by some reviewers one of the best American films about the Pacific conflict during WWII however, being sometime slow, boring but generally worthwhile. Intense and bloody fight for an occupied Pacific island and shot in Philippines outdoors. Visually compelling and focused on the battles of a group of Marines and on men's determination to survive their tour of duty.
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