Up from the Beach

Up from the Beach is a 1965 French-American international co-production war film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons and James Robertson Justice.[1] It was based on a 1959 novel by George Barr called Epitaph for an Enemy.[2]

Up From the Beach
Directed byRobert Parrish
Produced byChristian Ferry
Written byClaude Brulé
Stanley Mann
Howard Clewes
George Barr (novel)
StarringCliff Robertson
Irina Demick
Red Buttons
Marius Goring
Slim Pickens
James Robertson Justice
Broderick Crawford
Georges Chamarat
Françoise Rosay
Raymond Bussières
Fernand Ledoux
Robert Hoffmann
Music byEdgar Cosma
CinematographyWalter Wottitz
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • June 9, 1965 (1965-06-09)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited States
France
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Following the Normandy landings at Omaha Beach, an American squad frees a group of French hostages but takes several casualties in an assault in Vierville-sur-Mer.

They capture a German officer who has treated the French in his jurisdiction with kindness, but the American sergeant discovers that no one on the busy beachhead wishes to be bothered with prisoners.

Production

The film was filmed in Cherbourg with a French cast and was set in the aftermath of the Normandy Landings where a group of Allied soldiers attempt to shelter Frenchmen who faced execution by the Nazis. As the US Department of Defense did not cooperate with the film, the American soldiers were played by French soldiers.[3][4]

Robert Parrish recalled that Darryl F. Zanuck made the film to use unused footage from The Longest Day with the film then marketed as a sequel. Cliff Robertson said he was given the Messerschmitt Bf 108 used in the film.[5] Robertson claimed Zanuck wanted to make the film to showcase his girlfriend Irina Demick who had appeared in The Longest Day. Robertson called the film "Up From the Bitch"[6] Irina Demick, Red Buttons and Fernand Ledoux appeared in the original "The Longest Day".

Oskar Werner was the first choice for the German officer eventually played by Marius Goring. Werner, a World War II Wehrmacht veteran refused on the ground that in his opinion no German officer of the time would have held such humane feelings as the officer portrayed in the film.[7]

Reception

According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $4,200,000 in rentals to break even and made $2,645,000, meaning it made a loss.[8]

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References
  1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059853/
  2. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9503E2D6163BE13ABC4852DFB066838E679EDE
  3. http://www.stripes.com/photoday/upfrombeach/index.html
  4. http://www.stripes.com/news/stop-the-war-he-picked-up-the-wrong-helmet-1.19441
  5. http://cliffrobertson.info/cliffhanger.htm
  6. p.13 Becker, Frawley And the Stars Spoke Back 2004 Scarecrow Press
  7. Notre Le Jour Plus Long La Presse de la Manche 2012
  8. Silverman, Stephen M (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox. L. Stuart. p. 324.


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