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Up from the Beach is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Parrish released in USA on 9 june 1965 with Cliff Robertson
Up from the Beach (1965)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 9 june 1965
Length 1h39
Directed by Robert Parrish
OriginUSA
Themes Political films
Rating61%
Up from the Beach is a 1965 French-American international co-production war film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons and James Robertson Justice. It was based on a 1959 novel by George Barr called Epitaph for an Enemy.
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Following the Normandy landings at Omaha Beach, an American squad frees a group of French hostages but takes several casualties in an assault in Vierville-sur-Mer.Actors
Cliff Robertson
(Sgt. Edward Baxter)
Irina Demick
(Lili Rolland)
Red Buttons
(PFC Harry Devine)
Marius Goring
(German Commandant)
Slim Pickens
(Artillery Colonel)
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