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Red Ball Express is a 1952 American World War II war film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Jeff Chandler and Alex Nicol, featuring early screen appearances by Sidney Poitier and Hugh O'Brian. The film is based on the Red Ball Express convoys that took place after the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944. [2]
A war drama film about the Allied truck drivers who supplied Patton's army in France in 1944. The film features Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Sidney Poitier and other stars, and is based on a true story.
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- Action, Drama, War
- Budd Boetticher
- 1952-08-29
A war film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Sidney Poitier and others. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers and other crew members who worked on this movie.
Red Ball Express (1952) depicts the most famous Army Transportation Corps mission of the war: an emergency around-the-clock plan to supply Gen. George Patton's tanks with gas and ammo as they raced toward Paris with lightning speed. The tanks moved so quickly, in fact, that they outran their supply lines more than once.
- Budd Boetticher, John Sherwood
- Jeff Chandler
Nov 23, 2015 · Red Ball Express (1952) During the Allied push to Paris, General Patton’s tanks have outrun their supply lines in a dramatic dash into German-held territory. Lieut. Campbell is assigned to...
- 4 min
- 11.2K
- Simply Media
A tense World War II tale based on the true story of a special truck convoy created to transport urgent supplies to General Patton's army...
- 84 min
- 998.2K
- LionHeart FilmWorks
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Red Ball Express. Enmity between an officer and his assistant complicates an already hazardous mission to get supplies to Patton's tanks.
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