Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart.
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.
$4,500,000
$7,206,220
May 28, 1980
Lorimar Motion Pictures
26 people
Lee Marvin
The Sergeant
Acting
Mark Hamill
Griff
Acting
Robert Carradine
Zab
Acting
Bobby Di Cicco
Vinci
Acting
Kelly Ward
Johnson
Acting
Stéphane Audran
Walloon
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Siegfried Rauch
Schroeder
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Serge Marquand
Rensonnet
Acting
Charles Macaulay
General / Captain
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Alain Doutey
Broban
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Maurice Marsac
Vichy Colonel
Acting
Colin Gilbert
Dog Face POW
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