1954 Directed by Stuart Heisler
On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a mission attempt goes horribly wrong. Trapped on the island, they must escort a scientist and his daughter to the other side of the island where their ship awaits. They must battle nature, hard terrain, and advancing Japanese troops.
Misión temeraria, Támaszpont
Des journées entières dans les plantes ou tout cinéaste devrait être un peu topographe et un peu botaniste
45/100
Interesting solely as an example of image management. Tony Curtis had made the transition to leading man but wasn't yet a major star (Trapeze finally accomplished that, from what I can gather), and the disjunction between Beachhead's ostensible war-is-hell worldview (the source novel, written by a WWII vet, is titled I've Got Mine) and United Artists' shameless agenda ("That Curtis guy makes the jungle steam...in his hottest adventure!") is kind of hilarious. The film doesn't flinch from horror: one Marine gets pulled headfirst into a Japanese tank after dropping a grenade inside; Curtis and his C.O., Frank Lovejoy, mutilate the faces of dead enemies (in an effort to pass them as their own corpses, so that living enemies won't…
Four US Marines are landed on a remote island to find out the location of Japanese minefields. Along the way they discover a scientist and his daughter that they try to get to their pick up point before the pursuing Japanese soldiers wipe them all out. To be fair to this, Tony Curtis ("Burke") is at his most swarthily alluring - especially when wet (which he frequently is), but the adventure all to frequently descends to rather pointless spatting between him and his sergeant "Fletcher" (Frank Lovejoy) - usually over "Nina" (Mary Murphy), who could hardly have been a greater liability to their mission. The dialogue is cringeworthy at times, too. The sets looks like the film was shot in…
