The Big Red One (1980)
Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart.
113 min
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
- May 16, 1980
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $4,500,000
- Box office
- $7,206,220
Trailer
Cast
- Lee Marvin as The Sergeant
- Mark Hamill as Pvt. Griff - 1st Squad
- Robert Carradine as Pvt. Zab - 1st Squad
- Bobby Di Cicco as Pvt. Vinci - 1st Squad
- Kelly Ward as Pvt. Johnson - 1st Squad
- Stéphane Audran as Underground Walloon Fighter at Asylum
- Siegfried Rauch as Sgt. Schroeder
- Serge Marquand as Rensonnet
- Charles Macaulay as General
- Charles Macaulay as World War I Captain
- Alain Doutey as Sgt. Broban - Vichy Soldier
Crew
- Samuel Fuller · Director
- Samuel Fuller · Writer
- Gene Corman · Producer
- Douglas Freeman · Producer
- Richard Schickel · Producer
- Dana Kaproff · Composer
- Adam Greenberg · Cinematographer
- David Bretherton · Editor
- Bryan McKenzie · Editor
- Morton Tubor · Editor
- Barbara Miller · Casting director