| Up From the Beach | |
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film poster by Frank McCarthy |
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| Directed by | Robert Parrish |
| Produced by | Chrisitan Ferry |
| Written by | Claude Brulé Stanley Mann Howard Clewes George Barr(novel) |
| Starring | Cliff Robertson Irina Demick Red Buttons |
| Music by | Edgar Cosma |
| Cinematography | Walter Wottitz |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | June 9, 1965 |
| Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United States of America/France |
| Language | English |
Up from the Beach is a 1965 Anglo-American 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]
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]
Robert Parrish recalled that Darryl F. Zanuck made the film to use unused footage from The Longest Day (film) with the film then marketed as a sequel. Cliff Robertson said he was given the Messerschmitt Bf 108 used in the film.[4] 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"[5] Both Irina Demick and Red Buttons appeared in the original "Longest Day".