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Beachhead is a american film of genre Drama directed by Stuart Heisler released in USA on 5 february 1954 with Tony Curtis
Beachhead (1954)
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Add to a movie listBeachhead 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.
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In late October 1943, a battalion of US Marines have landed on Choiseul Island to create a diversion for the impending Allied invasion of Japanese held Bougainville Island.Actors
Tony Curtis
(Burke)
Frank Lovejoy
(Sgt. Fletcher)
Mary Murphy
(Nina Bouchard)
Skip Homeier
(Reynolds)
Eduard Franz
(Bouchard, French Planter)
John Doucette
(Maj. Scott)
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