"Tarawa Beachhead" (1958) Complete WW2 USMC War Movie

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  • Опубликовано: 19 апр 2024
  • A Marine sergeant (Kerwin Mathews) witnesses an officer (Ray Danton). kill one of their men at Guadalcanal to cover his own incompetence, and fears he won't be believed because of rank, so finds the captain has gotten him assigned to his next command -- The sergeant falls in love with the widow (Julie Adams).
    The original working title of the film was Flag over Tarawa and was originally to have starred Ronald Reagan. The film contained extensive amounts of actual footage of the Battle of Tarawa. While some actual footage was used, most of the supposed actual footage were from the 1943 film Guadalcanal Diary and the 1949 film, Sands of Iwo Jima. The United States Marine Corps refused to cooperate with the producers, due to the theme of an officer out for glory killing his own men and a sergeant out for revenge.
    Originally released on November 2, 1958.
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  • @tscully1504
    @tscully1504 Месяц назад +21

    I watched all the war films I could growing up,, but never saw this one. Interesting story within a story.

    • @Bernie5172
      @Bernie5172 Месяц назад +1

      i cant recall watching it before. ? its a bit like Iwo Jima with John Wayne

    • @tscully1504
      @tscully1504 Месяц назад +2

      @@Bernie5172 Yes. They even used a lot of the film footage from the sands of Iwo Jima film.

    • @xxxxxx-tq4mw
      @xxxxxx-tq4mw Месяц назад

      Sloan visiting the New Zealander widow, Ruth, reminded me of Aldo Ray who played Andy Hookens visiting the widow Pat Rogers in the 1955 movie, "Battlecry."

    • @matrox
      @matrox Месяц назад

      Me too. Me neither. True.

  • @thewaywardwind548
    @thewaywardwind548 11 дней назад +2

    In 1964-65 my American History teacher was a widow whose husband had been a Marine killed at Tarawa.

  • @kylemartin2594
    @kylemartin2594 Месяц назад +6

    My father was at Tarawa..Navy corpsmen. Never talked about it. 2 purple hearts. Said..everyone was a rifleman.

    • @danor6812
      @danor6812 7 дней назад

      My uncle died there.

  • @randalldunkley1042
    @randalldunkley1042 Месяц назад +10

    Typical blending of footage from WW2, "Sands of Iwo Jima" and "Guadalcanal Diary" that I could see. They did a great job editing it. Kerwin worked with producer Charles Schneer on "Seventh Voyage of Sinbad".

  • @jeffersonsmith1877
    @jeffersonsmith1877 Месяц назад +7

    This is a great movie. Thanks for uploading!

  • @XrayxRich
    @XrayxRich Месяц назад +32

    I read "One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa" in 2012. One hell of a battle. The Marines paid dearly at Tarawa. I read it as Tare-a-wa but understand it was pronounced Ta-raw-wa

    • @davewitter6565
      @davewitter6565 Месяц назад +6

      I am confused by that as well. I always called it Tar a Wa not Ta-raw-wa.

    • @jessejames7757
      @jessejames7757 Месяц назад +1

      Wasn't no Peleliu!

    • @XrayxRich
      @XrayxRich Месяц назад +4

      @@jessejames7757 Tarawa showed the mistakes made. Bombardment was stopped early to save ammunition. Peleiu was just a clusterf...
      All of those guys were heroes. They were a different breed of men back then, raised in the Depression.

    • @majorronaldmandell7835
      @majorronaldmandell7835 Месяц назад +2

      @@XrayxRichWell said! The Great Depression!

    • @majorronaldmandell7835
      @majorronaldmandell7835 Месяц назад +1

      A lot of this live film footage is of the Army not the Marines, and there were no Army troops involved in the Tarawa operation.

  • @Fuxerz
    @Fuxerz 29 дней назад +3

    Thank you for posting nice movie.

  • @jeffg.1615
    @jeffg.1615 Месяц назад +16

    My Great Uncle fought there, then Saipan and finially to Nagasaki. He only told one person about it.

    •  Месяц назад +2

      What bravery when you think he may have been 20-21 years old.

    • @jeffg.1615
      @jeffg.1615 Месяц назад +1

      He was 20 years old at the time. A really good man.

    • @andrewcastellane7802
      @andrewcastellane7802 Месяц назад +2

      Nagasaki was A-Bombed.

    • @jeffg.1615
      @jeffg.1615 Месяц назад +4

      @@andrewcastellane7802 The Marines went in after the occupation of Japan.

  • @clarajohnson5184
    @clarajohnson5184 20 дней назад +1

    Hey, XrayxRich, Don’t worry about the pronunciation, if you’ve got this island as one of WWII’s island-hopping specials, then you’re definitely on the right track. After Gallippoli
    (Spelling?) the world seemed to think amphibious assaults were impossible and would,
    simply, never succeed. Somehow, nobody told the Marines! They tore up the Pacific and
    all those “names” have become a most important part of the study of the war in the Pacific. If you’re truly interested, make sure all the episodes of Victory at Sea are on your To Watch List.

  • @nobullshoot
    @nobullshoot Месяц назад +6

    made me think about the two sergeants in Platoon, good and evil. Thought i saw all ww2 movies growing up in the 60’s, pleasure watching this one.

  • @SirAceMcFly
    @SirAceMcFly Месяц назад +6

    Thx for the upload!

  • @chuckokelley2448
    @chuckokelley2448 Месяц назад +8

    I had 3 uncles at Tarawa
    , the fighting Hampton brothers.

  • @oscarn1454
    @oscarn1454 Месяц назад +1

    Thanks always

  • @hamidmouloudj1041
    @hamidmouloudj1041 Месяц назад +8

    Merci pour le film 😊

  • @reynaldoflores4522
    @reynaldoflores4522 4 дня назад

    I also had relatives who fought in Guadalcanal and Tarawa. But they were on the other ( losing ) side .

  • @pittsburghwill
    @pittsburghwill Месяц назад +10

    mistake at 50:02 ww2 m1 carbines did not have the bayonette lug the bl was a korean war addition

    • @johncaldwell-wq1hp
      @johncaldwell-wq1hp Месяц назад +2

      I have a W.W.2--M1-carbine made by "rockola"--very rare !!--still works fine.

    • @79terrafirma
      @79terrafirma Месяц назад +2

      Mine is a 1943 underwood m1. Beautiful little carbine. Love the rear flip sight.

    • @johncaldwell-wq1hp
      @johncaldwell-wq1hp Месяц назад +1

      @@79terrafirma Great !!-mine came with a 15 shot mag,-& a 30 round "curved"mag-also mine was made in 1943 too !!--I think the bulk of them,was made by "winchester" & there's a "story"of their history.

    • @kennysherrill3471
      @kennysherrill3471 Месяц назад

      Late in the war a few did make it into action with the bayonet luge.

  • @joseluiscastanorestrepo
    @joseluiscastanorestrepo Месяц назад +2

    Great classic movie.

  • @thomasmanning829
    @thomasmanning829 Месяц назад +4

    I read a pretty good book about the battle for Tarawa. What a blood bath. I had to wonder if it was worth it.

    • @willielongbotham7156
      @willielongbotham7156 Месяц назад

      Yes, .me too, and it stuck with me, cant find the words to describe what those marines went through.
      And contrary to what many believe, there are still many like them..

  • @martingainty9623
    @martingainty9623 6 дней назад

    IRS Section 280G
    "No deduction shall be allowed under this chapter for any excess parachute payment. The term “excess parachute payment” means an amount equal to the excess of any parachute payment over the portion of the base amount allocated to such payment"

  • @raulmaldonado5921
    @raulmaldonado5921 Месяц назад +10

    At 1:59 1958 pop-up ??? The year the film was made?

  • @petepanozzo6854
    @petepanozzo6854 Месяц назад

    I enjoyed watching this film!

  • @JimOReilly-xk4vb
    @JimOReilly-xk4vb Месяц назад +3

    That lieutenant had a quick shave at the start of the movie,

  • @martingainty9623
    @martingainty9623 6 дней назад

    Looks like real WWII Footage spliced in
    Very Realistic 10/10

  • @buckwheatsghettoghost4927
    @buckwheatsghettoghost4927 Месяц назад +3

    "Keep Moving"

  • @peterholmesgavleman
    @peterholmesgavleman Месяц назад +4

    Given that the Nelson family - at the farm - were either British or New Zealanders it’s a pity that the producers could not find some non Americans to play their roles!

    • @ItsJustMorris
      @ItsJustMorris Месяц назад +2

      The supposed New Zealand scenes are utter crap. This film , Tawara Beachhead, is an insult to the land and the people who fed and nursed the yanks, New Zealand and New Zealanders.

    • @David77646
      @David77646 Месяц назад

      I’m from New Zealand and the ladies don’t have a New Zealand kiwi accent or British accent

    • @peterholmesgavleman
      @peterholmesgavleman Месяц назад

      @@David77646 the female members of my rugby club in Perth that hail from NZ certainly speak with a kiwi accent.

  • @mikeyoung9810
    @mikeyoung9810 Месяц назад +2

    I thought I'd seen everything about Tarawa in the movies but not this movie. I see they used quite a few bits of Sands of Iwo Jima footage on the Tarawa part. Lots of scenes not from Tarawa though.

  • @jerrydonquixote5927
    @jerrydonquixote5927 Месяц назад

    That's pretty good for an old film! Blending Cinema and war footage.

  • @ronhillard7040
    @ronhillard7040 Месяц назад +5

    Bogus! Men do not throw their hands in the air before falling down when shot!

  • @jeffreykoran4820
    @jeffreykoran4820 Месяц назад

    SO MANY GREAT ACTORS IN THIS MOVIE 🎬....IV NEVER HEARD OF ANY OF THEM...

    • @carlcushmanhybels8159
      @carlcushmanhybels8159 Месяц назад

      I've heard of one as the names flashed by: Julie Adams co-starred in and was wonderful in:" The Creature From the Black Lagoon."

  • @SteepSix
    @SteepSix Месяц назад +1

    How much disbelief do you need to suspend? How much have you got?

  • @alexterieur4326
    @alexterieur4326 Месяц назад +5

    Tarawa Atoll Sanglant
    Spirou

  • @nyyt854tufc
    @nyyt854tufc Месяц назад +1

    Posthumous medal 🏅 of honor

  •  Месяц назад +3

    Ray Caplan (Danton) fought for 4 years In Korea!

    • @chadwedul1787
      @chadwedul1787 Месяц назад +3

      Conflict was just over 3 years in length.

    • @jessejames7757
      @jessejames7757 Месяц назад

      Didn't anyone tell you the war was over? The last year you fought is a war crime.

    • @jessejames7757
      @jessejames7757 Месяц назад +2

      4years in a 3 year war last year must of been lonely.

    • @TedBronson1918
      @TedBronson1918 Месяц назад

      He must have started pissing some of the Koreans off after the 3rd year since the Cease Fire had been implemented and the fighting ended... or maybe he was just killing some of the tens of thousands of extra Chinese communist soldiers that were just hanging around and the Koreans and Chinese were denying their presence... yeah - that's it.

  • @joselopezmoya9786
    @joselopezmoya9786 Месяц назад +2

    Aside from JULIE ADAMS, the rest of the cast is unknown.

    • @miked6335
      @miked6335 15 дней назад

      Kerwin Mathews was in a few Ray Harryhausen films around 1960 and was pretty well known at the time. Ray Danton was maybe not as well known but showed up in a bunch of WB TV shows and some movies in the late 50's.

    • @reynaldoflores4522
      @reynaldoflores4522 3 дня назад

      The younger sister was the real hottie in this movie. Sloan probably had the hots for her. Too bad she was already spoken for.

  • @johnmayo27
    @johnmayo27 День назад

    I like the movies 🎥 on WW2🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @user-bc5nl6uq5t
    @user-bc5nl6uq5t Месяц назад +6

    t thought the marines wore camouflaged uniforms and helmet covers?

  • @joeviking61
    @joeviking61 Месяц назад +2

    Very little Beachhead, mostly Cornbread. Pass

  • @janlipski5215
    @janlipski5215 Месяц назад

    Didn't look much like NZ,the 1st USMC were stationed at Paekakariki and the hospital was in Silverstream. There is a memorial to them at Mckays crossing. God bless them all.

  • @BernardGoldstein-jy6og
    @BernardGoldstein-jy6og 10 дней назад

    Great movie 5/22/24

  • @NmaM-it5yk
    @NmaM-it5yk Месяц назад +10

    Today’s generation - “what’s a matter, you scared?”
    “Yes OMG!! Im having a panic attack right now I have so much anxiety from all this!!”

  • @mattsmelley5569
    @mattsmelley5569 3 дня назад

    A feud between 2 people probably happens more than one knows...this movie and Platoon are following same script...

  • @FranckCastillo-yp5vq
    @FranckCastillo-yp5vq 26 дней назад

    A Lot thousand heroísm stories from USMC at Pacific. I pride My grandpa
    Semper Fi

  • @Midwest10
    @Midwest10 Месяц назад +2

    Funny. Hollywood. I’ve stayed on Tarawa. They don’t have crickets like this movie protrays

    • @bclmax
      @bclmax Месяц назад

      i was there alot in the 90s..stayed at the Ootintai hotel..

  • @michaelpass2176
    @michaelpass2176 Месяц назад +2

    Run straight line you can get shot real quick

  • @chrisoulalakkas7935
    @chrisoulalakkas7935 Месяц назад

    Just when you think that food cannot possibly call you on your phone....BOOM!!!
    Onion rings.😅

  • @user-bc5nl6uq5t
    @user-bc5nl6uq5t Месяц назад +2

    oh yes,they did/

  • @lyndonhenderson816
    @lyndonhenderson816 Месяц назад +1

    Let that stupid lieutenant take the point,bet he won’t.😢😢😢😢😢😢

  • @ricogo2447
    @ricogo2447 29 дней назад

    Sure looks like Wellington's countryside ...

  • @hughroney6342
    @hughroney6342 Месяц назад

    War part was ok,, to damn much romance for a war movie!

  • @animelech6004
    @animelech6004 Месяц назад

    Great job

  • @africanqueenproject
    @africanqueenproject 18 дней назад

    Julie Adam's an incredible beauty...Creature From The Black Lagoon..she wad gorgeous in her bathing suit ..I was smitten 😊

  • @rigger314
    @rigger314 25 дней назад

    Its a great movie but honestly destoyers did not carry landing craft.

  • @user-he8vn8qm5e
    @user-he8vn8qm5e 5 минут назад

    BS story line, She just began a widow, yet she’s flirting with the guy who brings her letters from her dead husband. Real love. Real BS!

  • @jessejames7757
    @jessejames7757 Месяц назад +1

    What a bunch of drama Queens.

  • @willthorson4543
    @willthorson4543 Месяц назад +1

    What a melodramatic mess. Barely any of the fighting was on betio(tarawa). And a good 75% of the battle in the movie is either real footage of Tarawa and other battles but straight up taken from Sands of Iwo jima. Also. A movie called Tarawa Beachhead has about 15 minutes of the movie take place on Tarawa. Lol

  • @wilsonpickett3881
    @wilsonpickett3881 Месяц назад +9

    Not the stupidest movie I've ever seen. Close though.

  • @robertlast3052
    @robertlast3052 Месяц назад +5

    I see the Marines never change, hitting up your dead buddy's old lady...lol!😂

    • @JStryker7
      @JStryker7 Месяц назад +2

      Plugging open holes

    • @reynaldoflores4522
      @reynaldoflores4522 3 дня назад

      Why not ? Her husband's dead. You wouldn't want that pretty, young widow to be lonely, do you ?

  • @jimmyhaley727
    @jimmyhaley727 5 дней назад

    total waste, as we never used it for the airplanes they died for

  • @desertdog3432
    @desertdog3432 17 дней назад

    Having been to Tawara three times, the the highest sea level is ten feet above the water level, No jungle.

  • @majorronaldmandell7835
    @majorronaldmandell7835 Месяц назад

    No doubt that Sloan is going to bed her, resulting in her becoming pregnant. This will add tons of sickening female drama to the film. . .

  • @1mlannen
    @1mlannen Месяц назад

    Shitty ending. Needed to get back home to the girl. MKL

  • @frankadams2401
    @frankadams2401 Месяц назад +1

    A typical Hollywood bull shit movie.

  • @davidholder3207
    @davidholder3207 26 дней назад

    🍅🍅

  • @trevorplows7494
    @trevorplows7494 Месяц назад +3

    No doubt an entertaining movie but Tarawa had no hills or caves on the side of them. It was flat as a pancake . It's to bad Hollywood has to imagine other scenarios even though the real truth and battle were horrific enough , a virtual extermination of the Japanese garrison and 4000 US Marine casualties , 25 percent of it's Division strength.

  • @rogergirouard
    @rogergirouard Месяц назад

    denton usally played unlikable charaters

  • @andrewhirsch6472
    @andrewhirsch6472 Месяц назад +6

    Quite lame that they didn't even attempt to do Kiwi accents.

    • @babuzzard6470
      @babuzzard6470 Месяц назад

      Even the kiwis have trouble with them!😂🇦🇺

  • @aussiedownunder4186
    @aussiedownunder4186 Месяц назад

    Rubbish film. Used footage from Sands of Iwo Jima & real footage of the battle. Scenes when Kerwin Matthews has scenes talking rubbish with the other actors Rubbish!! The Marines did not have time for this BULLSHIT! Typical Stupid Hollywood!!

  • @kennysherrill3471
    @kennysherrill3471 Месяц назад +1

    What bullshit, who ever wrote this script should be in prison.😡

  • @user-ml3dp9hq7o
    @user-ml3dp9hq7o Месяц назад

    Sorry but straight up GARBAGE movie unbelievable that they even put this S$&; out lol

  • @Abdikadirmahamedfarah
    @Abdikadirmahamedfarah Месяц назад +6

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  • @rodolfoponce1154
    @rodolfoponce1154 Месяц назад

    Ang ganda naman talagang ng babaeng

  •  Месяц назад +2

    @XrayxRich
    il y a 22 heures
    It
    @XrayxRich
    il y a 22 heures
    "It is all pretty physical" Those were the days when you wouldn't make love until you were in love!!! the good old times🥲 made my laugh