--- title: 'Red Ball Express (1952)' type: 'film' director: 'Budd Boetticher' released: '1952-08-29' runtime_minutes: 83 genres: - 'War' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/red-ball-express-1952' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045072/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Red Ball Express (1952) 1952 · 83 min · War · United States ## Synopsis 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Budd Boetticher](https://cinepixo.com/people/budd-boetticher) - **Screenplay:** [John Michael Hayes](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-michael-hayes) - **Producer:** [Aaron Rosenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/aaron-rosenberg) - **Director of Photography:** [Maury Gertsman](https://cinepixo.com/people/maury-gertsman) - **Editor:** [Edward Curtiss](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-curtiss) ## Cast - [Hugh O'Brian](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-o-brian) - [Sidney Poitier](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-poitier) - [Alex Nicol](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-nicol) - [Jack Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-kelly) - [Yola d'Avril](https://cinepixo.com/people/yola-d-avril) - [Jeff Chandler](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeff-chandler) - [John Hudson](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-hudson) - [Charles Drake](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-drake) - [Rudolph Anders](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolph-anders) - [Howard Petrie](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-petrie) - [Gregg Palmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregg-palmer) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/red-ball-express-1952 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1026650); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.