Movie
The Big Red One
Overview
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
Details
- Release date
- 1980-05-28
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Lorimar Motion Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Lee Marvin as The Sergeant
- Mark Hamill as Griff
- Robert Carradine as Zab
- Bobby Di Cicco as Vinci
- Kelly Ward as Johnson
- Stéphane Audran as Walloon
- Siegfried Rauch as Schroeder
- Serge Marquand as Rensonnet
- Charles Macaulay as General / Captain
- Alain Doutey as Broban
- Maurice Marsac as Vichy Colonel
- Colin Gilbert as Dog Face POW
Crew
- Samuel Fuller - Director
- Samuel Fuller - Writer
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