The Big Red One (1980)
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.
- Released
- 1980-05-28
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Runtime
- 162 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Samuel Fuller
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 from 360 votes
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