Up From the Beach
Cast & Crew
Robert Parrish
Cliff Robertson
Red Buttons
Irina Demick
Marius Goring
Slim Pickens
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
On the day after D-Day, Sgt. Edward Baxter and a U. S. Army squadron overtake a group of German soldiers who are holding hostage French civilians in a Normandy farmhouse at Verville. The American soldiers kill all but the German town commandant and free the French villagers--among them, Lili, a resistance worker in love with the commandant, who has treated the townspeople with kindness and consideration during the occupation. Upon receiving orders from a U. S. artillery colonel, Sergeant Baxter rounds up the villagers and marches them to the beach for evacuation to England. When they reach the beach, the U. S. Navy and the British beachmaster refuse to accept responsibility for the group, and the tired townspeople return to their homes. They attempt the trip from the village to the beach twice again, but no evacuation occurs. German troops fire on Verville, and the German commandant suggests that the villagers take refuge in the vault of an old church. While inspecting the vault, the commandant steps into a booby trap and dies. The bombardment ends, and the liberated townspeople sing the Marseillaise to Baxter and his troops as they join an American column on its way to the front.
Director
Robert Parrish
Cast
Cliff Robertson
Red Buttons
Irina Demick
Marius Goring
Slim Pickens
James Robertson-justice
Broderick Crawford
Georges Chamarat
Françoise Rosay
Raymond Bussières
Fernand Ledoux
Louise Chevalier
Germaine Delbat
Paula Dehelly
Gabriel Gobin
Charles Bouillaud
Georges Adet
Pierre Moncorbier
Nicole Chollet
Raoul Marco
Charlotte Eizlini
Pierval
Renée Gardes
Paul Maxwell
Ken Wayne
Brian Davies
Robert Hoffmann
Michael Munzer
Henri Kuhn
Jean-claude Berva
Bibi Morat
Frawley Becker
Roy Stephens
Jo Warfield
Rod Calvert
Alexandre Grecq
Tracy Wynn
Billy Kearns
Thomas Farnsworth
Crew
Karl Baumgartner
Samuel E. Beetley
Daniel Braunschweig
Claude Brule
Jacques Carrère
Howard Clewes
Edgar Cosma
Christian Ferry
Andre Frederick
George Gradzenczyk
Willy Holt
Georges Iaconelli
Lucien Lippens
Stanley Mann
Max Olivier
Albert Rajau
Louis Wipf
Walter Wottitz
Michel Wyn
Film Details
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Notes
Filmed in Normandy. Screen credits list Clewes as scriptwriter with Mann credited for additional dialogue. The working title of this film is The Day After.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1965
CinemaScope
Released in United States 1965
