The Big Red One
“Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart.”
1980•PG•1h 53m•6.7•Released
DramaWar
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.
Director
Samuel Fuller
Writer
Samuel Fuller
Budget
$5M
Revenue
$7M
Languages
English, Italian, German
Studio
Lorimar Motion Pictures
Cast
Lee Marvin
The Sergeant
Mark Hamill
Griff
Robert Carradine
Zab
Bobby Di Cicco
Vinci
Kelly Ward
Johnson
Stéphane Audran
Walloon
Siegfried Rauch
Schroeder
Serge Marquand
Rensonnet
Charles Macaulay
General / Captain
Alain Doutey
Broban
Maurice Marsac
Vichy Colonel
Colin Gilbert
Dog Face POW
Joseph Clark
Shep
Ken Campbell
Lemchek
Doug Werner
Switolski
Production
Company
Lorimar Motion Pictures
Producer
Gene Corman
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