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The Big Red One

1980 · 1h 53m · Drama · War

Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart.

IMDb
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Metacritic
77

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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.

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Cast

Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin

The Sergeant

Mark Hamill

Mark Hamill

Griff

Robert Carradine

Robert Carradine

Zab

Bobby Di Cicco

Bobby Di Cicco

Vinci

Kelly Ward

Kelly Ward

Johnson

Stéphane Audran

Stéphane Audran

Walloon

Siegfried Rauch

Siegfried Rauch

Schroeder

Serge Marquand

Serge Marquand

Rensonnet

Charles Macaulay

Charles Macaulay

General / Captain

Alain Doutey

Alain Doutey

Broban

Maurice Marsac

Maurice Marsac

Vichy Colonel

Colin Gilbert

Dog Face POW

Joseph Clark

Shep

Ken Campbell

Lemchek

Doug Werner

Switolski

Perry Lang

Perry Lang

Kaiser

Crew

Media

Details

Release date
May 28, 1980
Status
Released
Original language
English
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
PG
Budget
$4,500,000
Revenue
$7,206,220
Genres
Drama, War

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