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Red Ball Express: Directed by Budd Boetticher. With Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake, Judith Braun. Story of the military truck drivers who kept the Allied armies supplied in Europe during World War II.
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- Action, Drama, War
- Budd Boetticher
- 1952-08-29
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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
Red Ball Express (1952) Movie Info Synopsis Enmity between an officer and his assistant complicates an already hazardous mission to get supplies to Patton's tanks.
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- Budd Boetticher
- War
- Jeff Chandler
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.
Overview. 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. Budd Boetticher. Director. John Michael Hayes. Screenplay. William Grady Jr. Story. Marcy Klauber. Story.