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Beachhead! is a 1954 American Technicolor war film based on U.S. Marine Corps Captain Richard G. Hubler 1945 novel I've Got Mine about World War II. It was filmed on Kauai island in the Hawaiian Islands by Aubrey Schenck Productions, released through United Artists studio and directed by Stuart Heisler.
The rendezvous point was filmed at Hanalei Pier located on Hanalei Bay on the northern shore of the island of Kauai in the state of Hawaii.
- (1.2K)
- Drama, War
- Stuart Heisler
- 1954-02-05
Beachhead: Directed by Stuart Heisler. With Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz. In 1943, in the wake of the Allied amphibious landing on the Japanese-held Bougainville Island, four Marines are sent to scout the location of Japanese minefields.
Filmed on Hawaiian locations on Kaua'i, including Hanalei Pier, the film was budgeted at US$450,000 with the producers arranging to release Tony Curtis from his contract with Universal-International studios.
A compact WWII men on a mission film with a hunky Tony Curtis, that could have been pulled out of the pages of TWO-FISTED TALES. It's impressively engineered to be one prolonged stress march, with every line of dialogue whispered, as the enemy is always just a few steps behind.
- Stuart Heisler
- Aubrey Schenck Productions, United Artists
Apr 8, 2008 · A taut World War II action thriller filmed in Hawaii, Beachhead (1954) was an important stepping-stone in the film career of rising star Tony Curtis.
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Beachhead! is a 1954 American Technicolor war film based on U.S. Marine Corps Captain Richard G. Hubler 1945 novel I've Got Mine about World War II. It was filmed on Kauai island in the Hawaiian Islands by Aubrey Schenck Productions, released through United Artists studio and directed by Stuart Heisler.
