Up from the Beach (1965)

★ 8.0 1h 39m IMDb

After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.

Up from the Beach

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Cliff Robertson
Cliff Robertson as Sgt. Edward Baxter Died 2011 · Los Angeles, California, USA Clifford Parker Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned half a century. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in...
Marius Goring
Marius Goring as German Commandant Died 1998 · Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK Marius Re Goring CBE FRSL (May 23, 1912 – September 30, 1998) was an English stage and screen actor. He is the son of Dr Charles Buckman Goring, a renowned physician and criminologist, and Kate Winifr...
Red Buttons
Red Buttons as PFC Harry Devine Died 2006 · New York City, New York, USA Although Red Buttons is best known as a stand-up comic, he is also a successful songwriter, an Academy Award-winning actor (and has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards) and an accomplished sing...
Irina Demick
Irina Demick as Lili Rolland Died 2004 · Pommeuse, Seine-et-Marne, France Irina Demick (16 October 1936, Pommeuse, Seine-et-Marne - 8 October 2004), sometimes credited as Irina Demich was a French actress with a brief career in American films. Born Irina Dziemiach, apparen...
James Robertson Justice
James Robertson Justice as British Beachmaster Died 1975 · Lewisham, London, England, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Robertson Justice (15 June 1907 – 2 July 1975) was a popular British character actor in British films of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Description above fro...
Slim Pickens
Slim Pickens as Artillery Colonel Died 1983 · Kingsburg, California, USA Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), known professionally as Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer. Starting off in the rodeo, Pickens transitioned to acting...

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CinemaSerf 6/10 Jan 04, 2024
This is quite a curiously pointless wartime adventure for Cliff Robertson. He is "Sgt. Baxter" who liberates the residents of a French village after the D-Day landings and then, with "Pte. Devine" (Red Buttons) spends the rest of the film ferrying these 21 civilians from pillar to post getting different instructions from a superior officer at every junction. Along the way, he does manage to find time for a little romance with "Lili" (Irina Demick) but must always be on his guard as the Nazis - including his sophisticated captive Commandant (Marius Goring) are still very much in the game. Their escapades are not without their tragedy and there is a general sense of the horror of war as buildings are bombed out, their column is strafed by fighter aircraft and they must sleep where they can foraging as they go. It's filmed on location, which adds a degree of authenticity to the proceedings and the writing is not without some pith now and again. Perhaps it's sarcastically looking at the futility of war? Interestingly novel take on this genre.

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