The Red Ball Express
"FROM BEACHHEAD TO BATTLEFRONT! THEY CARRY THE AMMO FOR PATTON'S TANKS!"
Overview
August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the momentum, Allied HQ establishes an elite military truck route.
Movie Details
Languages
English
Studio
Universal International Pictures
Key Crew
Budd Boetticher
Director
John Michael Hayes
Screenplay
Cast
Jeff Chandler
Lt. Campbell
Alex Nicol
Sgt. Kallek
Charles Drake
Partridge
Judith Braun
Joyce
Sidney Poitier
Robertson
Jacqueline Duval
Antoinette
Bubber Johnson
Taffy
Davis Roberts
McCord
Hugh O'Brian
Wilson
Frank Chase
Higgins
Cindy Garner
Kitty
Gregg Palmer
Tank Lieutenant
John Hudson
Tank Sergeant
Jack Kelly
Heyman
Howard Petrie
General Gordon
Douglas Bank
Mechanic (uncredited)
George S. Patton
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Barrows
Soldier in Bistro (uncredited)
Nan Boardman
French Peasant Mother (uncredited)
Eugene Borden
Dubois -- Antoinette's Father (uncredited)
