The Big Red One (1980)
Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart.
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.
Rated
PG
Year
1980
Country
US
Language
English
Release date
28 May 1980
TMDB
6.7 (357)
CineVerse
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Ratings
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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
C
Colin Gilbert
Dog Face POW
J
Joseph Clark
Shep
K
Ken Campbell
Lemchek
D
Doug Werner
Switolski
Perry Lang
Kaiser
H
Howard Delman
Smitty
Marthe Villalonga
Madame Marbaise
Giovanna Galletti
Woman in Sicilian Village
G
Gregori Buimistre
The Hun
S
Shimon Barr
German Male Nurse
M
Matteo Zoffoli
Sicilian Boy
A
Abraham Ronai
German Field Marshall
G
Galit Rotman
Pregnant Frenchwoman
Samuel Fuller
War Correspondent (uncredited)
Christa Lang
German Countess (extended edition) (uncredited)
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