The Big Red One (1980)2h42
Drama · War
Director Samuel Fuller (6.9 avg)
Also directed Pickup on South Street, White Dog, Shock Corridor, and 25 more
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.
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Cast
Lee Marvin
Mark Hamill
Robert Carradine
Bobby Di Cicco
Kelly Ward
Stéphane Audran
Siegfried Rauch
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