The Big Red One

Release date: Jan 22, 1980

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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Top Cast

The Sergeant

Griff

Zab

Vinci

Johnson

Walloon

Schroeder

Rensonnet

General / Captain

Broban

Vichy Colonel

Dog Face POW

Shep

Lemchek

Switolski

Kaiser

Smitty

Madame Marbaise

Woman in Sicilian Village

The Hun

German Male Nurse

Sicilian Boy

German Field Marshall

Pregnant Frenchwoman

War Correspondent (uncredited)

German Countess (extended edition) (uncredited)

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