The Red Beret (1954)
- Directed by
- Terence Young
- Genre
- drama film, war film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 15 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An American pretends to be Canadian to join the British Parachute Regiment during World War Two. He trains with the regiment and takes part in dangerous missions behind enemy lines.
patrioticaction-packedearnestbrisk-pacedheroicdramaticmilitary-focused
What happens
The Red Beret (aka The Red Devils, The Big Jump and retitled Paratrooper for the US release) is a 1953 British-American war film directed by Terence Young and starring Alan Ladd, Leo Genn and Susan Stephen. The Red Beret is the fictional story about Steve MacKendrick, an American who enlists in the British Parachute Regiment in 1940, claiming to be a Canadian. It was the first film made by Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli's Warwick Films, with many of the crew later working on various films for Warwick Films and Broccoli's Eon Productions. It is partly based on the 1950 non-fiction book with the same title written by Hilary St George Saunders, about the Parachute Regiment and its second operation, Operation Biting, in February 1942. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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