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Battle at Bloody Beach

"The Guts and Glory Story of the Undefeatables!"

User Score7 votes
43%4.3/10
Release1961
Runtime1H 23M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased

Synopsis

This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical "To Hell and Back." Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western role to play a civilian working for the Navy helping supply guerilla insurgents in the Philippines. His sole motive is not politics nor bravery, but to find his bride from whom he was separated during the Japanese invasion two years before

Principal Cast8

Full Cast & Crew (28)

Media5

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Director

Herbert Coleman

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Certification

NR

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Reviews1

CinemaSerf6/10

No amount of charisma from Audie Murphy was ever going to be able to rescue this from obscurity. Determined to emulate other stars of his era and move away from the declining Western genre with which he had some success, he takes on the role as American civilian "Benson" who works with the local Filipino population following the Japanese invasion of the islands during WWII. It's not really up to much, this film - a sort of rose-tinted look at the aftermath of the occupation that really focusses more on his determination to find "Ruth" (Dolores Michaels) rather than for any more laudable cause - he ends up helping because of her, rather than for any principle. It's strangely flat and un-engaging; there is some action but for the most part it rumbles along for 80 minutes with an inevitability about it that is quite dull and entirely predictable with a star far from his best.

Aug 25, 2023

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Countries:United States of America
Production:Associated Producers (API)20th Century Fox