The Red Ball Express
FROM BEACHHEAD TO BATTLEFRONT! THEY CARRY THE AMMO FOR PATTON'S TANKS!
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.
Director Budd Boetticher
Trailer
Cast
George Dee
French Waiter (uncredited)
Hugh O'Brian
Wilson
George Barrows
Soldier in Bistro (uncredited)
Thomas Browne Henry
Col. Carter (uncredited)
John Hudson
Tank Sergeant
Nan Boardman
French Peasant Mother (uncredited)
Robert Karnes
Engineer Captain (uncredited)
Harry Lauter
Lt. Michaelson -- Sentry (uncredited)
Jeff Chandler
Lt. Campbell
Alex Nicol
Sgt. Kallek
Judith Braun
Joyce
Douglas Evans
Brigadier General at Briefing (uncredited)
Walter Reed
Major (uncredited)
Clark Howat
Military Police Captain (uncredited)
Arthur Space
Colonel at Briefing (uncredited)
Charles Drake
Partridge
Bubber Johnson
Taffy
Davis Roberts
McCord
Frank Chase
Higgins
Jack Kelly
Heyman
Howard Petrie
General Gordon
Eugene Borden
Dubois -- Antoinette's Father (uncredited)
Sidney Clute
Military Police Captain (uncredited)
Bill Hickman
Soldier in Bistro (uncredited)
Bernard L. Montgomery
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jacqueline Duval
Antoinette
Gregg Palmer
Tank Lieutenant
Yola d'Avril
Barmaid (uncredited)
David Friedman
Mechanic (uncredited)
Howard Negley
Major General (uncredited)
John Pickard
Major (uncredited)
Sidney Poitier
Robertson
George S. Patton
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Dale
Mechanic (uncredited)