The Big Red One
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.
Release Date
January 22, 1980Runtime
113 minRating
RDirected by
Samuel Fuller, Todd Corman, Arne Schmidt, Lewis Teague, Monte Hellman, Avner Orshalimy, Gary Zembow, Leo Zisman, Lynn A. AberWritten by
Samuel FullerLanguage
EnglishBudget
$4,500,000Revenue
$7,206,220Status
Released
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
Samuel Fuller
War Correspondent (uncredited)
Christa Lang
German Countess (extended edition) (uncredited)Images
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