The Big Red One (1980)

6.7/10 113 min Drama War

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.

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

Perry Lang

Kaiser

Marthe Villalonga

Madame Marbaise

Giovanna Galletti

Woman in Sicilian Village

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