Battle at Bloody Beach

Battle at Bloody Beach, (aka Battle on the Beach in the UK and Australia),[1] is a 1961 drama directed by Herbert Coleman and starring Audie Murphy who had previously worked together in Posse from Hell. The film also features Gary Crosby and introduces Alejandro Rey. Battle at Bloody Beach is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in World War II, after his autobiographical To Hell and Back.[2] The film was shot on Santa Catalina Island[3] by Robert Lippert's Associated Producers Incorporated and was released by 20th Century Fox.[4] The film was produced and co-written by Richard Maibaum along with frequent Audie Murphy collaborator Willard W. Willingham.[5][6][7]

Battle at Bloody Beach
Original film poster
Directed byHerbert Coleman
Produced byRichard Maibaum
Written byRichard Maibaum
Willard W. Willingham
StarringAudie Murphy
Gary Crosby
Dolores Michaels
Music byHenry Vars
CinematographyKenneth Peach
Edited byJodie Copelan
Production
company
Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • June 1, 1961 (1961-06-01)
Running time
83 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Craig Benson (Audie Murphy) is a civilian working for the Navy helping arm and supply guerrilla insurgents in the Philippines. His main purpose, however, is to find his wife Ruth (Dolores Michaels), from whom he was separated by the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.

Coming ashore Benson kills two Japanese soldiers who have ambushed his contact Sgt. Marty Sackler (Gary Crosby). The two initially meet a dubious guerrillas who act as bandits lead by a renegade American M'Keever (William Mims) who desires the weapons Benson brought but concealed. Realising M'Keever is a dead loss, the two fight but actual guerrillas led by Julio Fontana (Alejandro Rey) and an American boxer trapped in the Philippines Tiger Blair (Ivan Dixon) defeat M'Keever's bandits and kill him.

Benson agrees to arm Fontana's guerrilla band and meets a group of American civilians he will evacuate to Australia including his wife Ruth (Dolores Michaels) who believed him killed and is romantically involved with Fontana.

Cast

See also

References
  1. "BATTLE ON THE BEACH (1961)". Monthly Film Bulletin. 28. p. 113. ProQuest 1305828545.
  2. Battle at Bloody Beach at Audie Murphy Memorial Site
  3. p. 171 Larkins, Bob & Magers, Boyd The Films of Audie Murphy McFarland, 1 May 2016
  4. McGee, Mark Thomas Talk's Cheap, Action's Expensive – The Films of Robert L. Lippert BearManor Media
  5. "Miss stapp signed". Los Angeles Times. Jun 22, 1961. ProQuest 167915846.
  6. Dexter, Maury (2012). Highway to Hollywood (PDF). p. 122.
  7. Larkins, Bob; Magers, Boyd (2009). The Films of Audie Murphy. McFarland. p. 169. ISBN 9781476609270.


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