A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
Lee Marvin
as The Sergeant
Mark Hamill
as Griff
Robert Carradine
as Zab
Bobby Di Cicco
as Vinci
Kelly Ward
as Johnson
Stéphane Audran
as Walloon
Siegfried Rauch
as Schroeder
Serge Marquand
as Rensonnet
Charles Macaulay
as General / Captain
Alain Doutey
as Broban
Maurice Marsac
as Vichy Colonel
Colin Gilbert
as Dog Face POW
