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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Saving Private Ryan
Miracle at St. Anna
Adam Resurrected
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Cross of Iron
Play Dirty
The Kill Team
Paradise Road
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
Walking with the Enemy
Escape from Sobibor
Saints and Soldiers
King Rat
Shutter Island
Triumph of the Spirit
Birdy
Schindler's List