The Big Red One

"The real glory of war is surviving"

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.

Director: Samuel Fuller

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

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