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Beachhead (1954)

84 min · Adventure, Drama, War Film

Popularity3/5
12-month trend2.4k263Expand

12-month trend

Monthly article views

2.4k02025-09: 2,375 views2025-10: 446 views2025-11: 312 views2025-12: 263 views2026-01: 392 views2026-02: 452 views2026-03: 334 views2026-04: 419 views2026-05: 410 views2026-06: 487 views2026-07: 857 views2026-08: 471 views
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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Stuart Heisler

Cast

Tony Curtis, Mary Murphy, Frank Lovejoy, Skip Homeier, Eduard Franz, John Doucette, Alan Wells

The story

In late October 1943, a battalion of U.S. Marines have landed on Choiseul Island to create a diversion for the impending Allied attack and invasion of Japanese held Bougainville Island in the Northern Solomon Islands, northeast of the large island colony of New Guinea in the southwest Pacific Ocean. Four of them have been selected to carry out a reconnaissance patrol to find a French planter.

Catalogue themes and tags

Act of Liberation, Failure, GI, Liberation, Mission, Navy, Pacific, Pacific War, Rettungstrupp, Soldatin, World War 2, Action/Adventure, Action, Drama, Film adaptation, War film

Genres

Adventure, Drama, War Film

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