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