The Red Beret

The Red Beret
Australian release poster
Directed by	Terence Young
Written by	Richard Maibaum Sy Bartlett Frank Nugent
Based on	The Red Beret 1950 novel by Hilary Saint George Saunders
Produced by	Irving Allen Albert R. Broccoli
Starring	Alan Ladd Leo Genn Susan Stephen
Cinematography	John Wilcox
Edited by	Gordon Pilkington
Music by	John Addison
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Warwick Films
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	14 August 1953 (1953-08-14) (London/Suez Canal Zone) 30 December 1953 (1953-12-30) (New York City)
Running time	88 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom United States
Language	English
Budget	US$700,000[1]
Box office	US$8 million[1]

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 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.^[2] It is partly based on the 1950 non-fiction book with the same title written by Hilary Saint George Saunders, about the Parachute Regiment and its second operation, Operation Biting, in February 1942.