Beach Red

Beach Red
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Cornel Wilde
Written by	Story: Peter Bowman Screenplay: Clint Johnston, Don Peters, Cornel Wilde
Starring	Cornel Wilde Rip Torn Burr DeBenning Patrick Wolfe Jaime Sánchez
Music by	Antonino Buenaventura
Cinematography	Cecil R. Cooney
Edited by	Frank P. Keller
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	1967
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Beach Red is a 1967 World War II film starring Cornel Wilde (who also directed) and Rip Torn. The film depicts a landing by the U.S. Marine Corps on an unnamed Japanese-held Pacific island (thought to be Red Beach, Palo, Leyte in the Philippines. However, there were no Marine landings anywhere in the Philippines. The film is based on Peter Bowman's 1945 novella of the same name, which was based on his experiences with the United States Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific Islands campaigns.

During World War II Allied amphibious operations, designated invasion beaches were code named by color; such as "Beach Red," "Beach White," "Beach Blue," etc.

The 30-minute opening sequence of the film depicts an opposed beach landing. Its graphic depiction of the violence and savagery of war was echoed thirty one years later in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. In one scene during the landing a Marine is shown with his arm blown off, similar to Thomas C. Lea III's 1944 painting The Price.

As Americans are shown consolidating their gains, flashbacks illustrate the lives of American and Japanese combatants. Shifting first-person voice-over in a stream of consciousness style is also used to portray thoughts of numerous characters. Like Wilde's previous production of The Naked Prey (1965), the film does not use subtitles for characters speaking Japanese.