First-Time Viewing

The Big Red One

Release Date:July 18, 1980

Running Time:113 min

Genres:Drama, War

Director

Cast

Lee Marvin Mark Hamill Robert Carradine Bobby Di Cicco Kelly Ward Stéphane Audran Siegfried Rauch Serge Marquand Charles Macaulay Alain Doutey Maurice Marsac Colin Gilbert

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

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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