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