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