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