Beachhead is a 1954 Technicolor war film based on Captain Richard G. Hubler USMCR's 1945 novel I've Got Mine. It was filmed in Kauai by Aubrey Schenck Productions, released through United Artists and directed by Stuart Heisler.
A four man U.S. Marine Corps amphibious reconnaissance patrol (Frank Lovejoy, Tony Curtis, Skip Homeier and Alan Wells) is landed on Japanese held Bougainville Island prior to the Allied invasion. They meet a French plante...
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Beachhead is a 1954 Technicolor war film based on Captain Richard G. Hubler USMCR's 1945 novel I've Got Mine. It was filmed in Kauai by Aubrey Schenck Productions, released through United Artists and directed by Stuart Heisler.
A four man U.S. Marine Corps amphibious reconnaissance patrol (Frank Lovejoy, Tony Curtis, Skip Homeier and Alan Wells) is landed on Japanese held Bougainville Island prior to the Allied invasion. They meet a French planter (Arthur Franz) and his daughter (Mary Murphy) who have valuable information needed for a successful amphibious landing by the Allied forces.
Filmed on Hawaiian locations, the film was budgeted at US$450,000 with the producers arranging to obtain Tony Curtis from his contract studio of Universal-International. The producers used Hawaiians for many of the roles in the film such as Sam "Steamboat" Mokuahi, , and Democratic Party organiser Dan Aoki, and Akira Fukunaga the latter two veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
The producers...
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