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Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart. - The Big Red One
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Title: The Big Red One

Release Date: 22 Jan 1980

Runtime: 1h 53m

Genre: Drama, War

Director: Lorimar Productions, United Artists

Production Companies: Lorimar Productions, United Artists

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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Average Vote: 6.7 (312 votes)

Cast

  • The Sergeant: Lee Marvin
  • Griff: Mark Hamill
  • Zab: Robert Carradine
  • Vinci: Bobby Di Cicco
  • Johnson: Kelly Ward
  • Walloon: Stéphane Audran
  • Schroeder: Siegfried Rauch
  • Rensonnet: Serge Marquand
  • General / Captain: Charles Macaulay
  • Broban: Alain Doutey
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