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The Big Red One

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

1980 · PG · 2h 42m

Directed by Samuel Fuller

6.7

TMDB audience score
361 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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
    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

  • Colin Gilbert
    Dog Face POW

  • Joseph Clark
    Shep

  • Ken Campbell
    Lemchek

  • Doug Werner
    Switolski

  • Perry Lang
    Kaiser

  • Howard Delman
    Smitty

  • Marthe Villalonga
    Madame Marbaise