The Big Red One poster
Director Samuel Fuller
Writer Samuel Fuller

The Big Red One

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

Release Date: 1980-01-22

Duration: 113 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Mark Hamill
    Griff
  • Lee Marvin
    The Sergeant
  • Robert Carradine
    Zab
  • Christa Lang
    German Countess (extended edition) (uncredited)
  • Stéphane Audran
    Walloon
  • Perry Lang
    Kaiser
  • Kelly Ward
    Johnson
  • Bobby Di Cicco
    Vinci
  • Serge Marquand
    Rensonnet
  • Marthe Villalonga
    Madame Marbaise