The film 's single musical theme is by Col. Antonino Buenaventura , a National Artist of the Philippines in Music . It appears in the title sequence , sung in a folk song manner by Jean Wallace — director Wilde 's wife — and appears in various other orchestrations throughout the film . ( Wallace also appears in flashback photos as soldier 's wife Julie MacDonald . ) 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 . " '' Variety '' wrote that " in contrast to many professedly anti-war films , '' Beach Red '' is indisputably sincere in its war is hell message . " 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 . . . . The movie is massively and harrowingly brutal , almost like a horror movie , with severed limbs washing up on the beach . 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 . " '' Beach Red '' received a 1968 Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing
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