Up from the Beach

  • Drama
  • War
5/25/1965
99
NR

A lone American sergeant on the most impossible mission of the war!

After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.

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  • Geronimo1967

    This is quite a curiously pointless wartime adventure for Cliff Robertson. He is "Sgt. Baxter" who liberates the residents of a French village after the D-Day landings and then, with "Pte. Devine" (Red Buttons) spends the rest of the film ferrying these 21 civilians from pillar to post getting different instructions from a superior officer at every junction. Along the way, he does manage to find time for a little romance with "Lili" (Irina Demick) but must always be on his guard as the Nazis - including his sophisticated captive Commandant (Marius Goring) are still very much in the game. Their escapades are not without their tragedy and there is a general sense of the horror of war as buildings are bombed out, their column is strafed by fig...

    January 4, 2024

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