starring
Cornel Wilde Rip Torn
Burr Debenning Patrick Wolfe
The Pacific, 1943: the beach is on a Japanese-held island where an American assault force, most of them raw recruits, suffer heavy casualties.
Cornel Wilde is director as well as star of this simple, compassionate anti-war film, with the horrors of battle, powerfully and realistically reconstructed.
Screenplay by CLINT JOHNSTON
DONALD A. PETERS and JEFFERSON PASCAL from the novel by PETER BOWMAN
Produced and directed by CORNEL WILDE Films: page 19