The Big Red One
1980/01/22 (US) | Drama, War
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.
Samuel Fuller
Director
Lead Cast
Lee Marvin
The Sergeant
Mark Hamill
Griff
Robert Carradine
Zab
Bobby Di Cicco
Vinci
Kelly Ward
Johnson
Stéphane Audran
Walloon
Siegfried Rauch
Schroeder
Budget
$ 4,500,000
Revenue
$ 7,206,220
Status
Released
Production Company
- Lorimar Productions
- United Artists
Crews
Barbara Miller
Casting
Blanche Shuler
Makeup & Hair
Peter Cornberg
Unit Production Manager
Roni Ya'ackov
Production Manager
Todd Corman
Second Assistant Director
Arne Schmidt
Assistant Director
Lewis Teague
Second Unit Director
Monte Hellman
Second Unit Director