The Big Red One
January 22, 1980
113 minutes
6.7
DramaWar

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.

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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)
Giovanna Galletti
(Woman in Sicilian Village)
Gregori Buimistre
(The Hun)
Shimon Barr
(German Male Nurse)
Matteo Zoffoli
(Sicilian Boy)
Abraham Ronai
(German Field Marshall)
Galit Rotman
(Pregnant Frenchwoman)
Samuel Fuller
(War Correspondent (uncredited))
Christa Lang
(German Countess (extended edition) (uncredited))