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Beachhead (Aubrey Schenck; United Artists) is one of those Hollywood adventures apparently based on the payroll schedule. Extras die like flies; bit players are allowed to put up a fight; second leads are wounded and nobly keep telling the others to go forward and leave them to perish miserably. But the hero and heroine come through it all with little more than a touch of sweat and a careful smudge on the off-profile.

But routine as it is, Beachhead is fairly exciting stuff. Tony Curtis and Frank Lovejoy are sent ashore on a Japanese-held island to risk their leathernecks in a pre-invasion reconnaissance. Then soldiering gives way to smooching when Tony finds Mary Murphy, the daughter of a French planter, in her jungle hideaway. The enemy, however, keeps the lovebirds, as well as the action, on the wing through the full-colored, gorgeous jungle on Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands, where Beachhead was filmed.

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