Up from the Beach

Up from the Beach (1965)

A lone American sergeant on the most impossible mission of the war!

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

Date of release
1965-05-25
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Drama, War
Director
Robert Parrish

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Normandy

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. It was based on a 1958 novel by George Barr called Epitaph for an Enemy.

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.

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. Robertson claimed Zanuck wanted to make the film to showcase his girlfriend Irina Demick who had appeared in 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.

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