The Big Red One (1980)

Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart.

Movie · Drama, War · 2h 42m · Rated 6.7/10 on TMDB · Released May 28, 1980

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.

Directed by Samuel Fuller

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

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