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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

BEACHHEAD (1954)

Journeyman director Stuart (THE GLASS KEY) Heisler can’t do much with this standard issue little mission pic about a small army unit, led by a lost-his-nerve Guadalcanal vet (Frank Lovejoy), trouping thru a Jap infested Pacific island. Hunting down the source of some important tactical info, by the time they find the Frenchman and his lovely daughter (also-ran Mary Murphy in a distressed cling-form dress), Tony Curtis is the only grunt alive to give orders to, and he’s pretty darn uncooperative. Unmemorable stuff.

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