The Big Red One (1980)
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 VillageRecommendations
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