Beach Red is a 1967 World War II film starring Cornel Wilde (who also directed and produced) and Rip Torn.

Its graphic depiction of the violence and savagery of war was echoed years later in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.

The action, though, is similar in some ways to a large-scale Japanese counterattack and banzai charge conducted on July 7, 1944, on Saipan, which was defeated by U.S. Army troops with heavy losses.

Howard Thompson of The New York Times praised the film as "an admirable war movie that says a bit and suggests even more, thanks to Cornel Wilde.

"[6] Variety wrote that "[i]n contrast to many professedly anti-war films, Beach Red [sic] is indisputably sincere in its war is hell message.

"[7] In a capsule review published many years after the film debuted, Time Out London wrote, "Wilde's neglected WWII movie is an allegory about the futility and the carnage of Vietnam.

Although Wilde deals exclusively in pacifist clichés, the film has a genuine primitive power; in fact, it's the equal of anything made by Fuller.