Cornel Wilde’s directorial follow-up to his superb The Naked Prey was hot stuff in its day, a war movie with an unexpected emphasis on brutality and gore. Rip Torn bears down too hard on his stock character, while Wilde’s attempts to pull off associative thought memory montages come off as amateurish. But the movie has a firm fan base among lovers of movie combat, and the new transfer bests all previous video encodings.

Beach Red

Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1967 / Color / 1:85 widescreen Academy / 105 min. / Street Date January 5, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95

Starring: Cornel Wilde, Rip Torn, Burr DeBenning, Patrick Wolfe, Jean Wallace, Jaime Sánchez, Dale Ishimoto, Genki Koyama.

Cinematography: Cecil R. Cooney

Film Editor: Frank P. Keller

Original Music: Antonio Buenaventura

Written by Clint Johnston, Jefferson Pascal, Don Peters from the novel by Peter Bowman

Produced and Directed by Cornel Wilde

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