

“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.
Directed by Budd Boetticher
User score
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Released
May 29, 1952
1h 23m
English

Jeff Chandler
Lt. Campbell

Alex Nicol
Sgt. Kallek

Charles Drake
Partridge

Judith Braun
Joyce

Sidney Poitier
Robertson

Jacqueline Duval
Antoinette

Bubber Johnson
Taffy

Davis Roberts
McCord

Hugh O'Brian
Wilson

Frank Chase
Higgins
Cindy Garner
Kitty

Gregg Palmer
Tank Lieutenant

John Hudson
Tank Sergeant

Jack Kelly
Heyman

Howard Petrie
General Gordon
Douglas Bank
Mechanic (uncredited)

George S. Patton
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

George Barrows
Soldier in Bistro (uncredited)

Nan Boardman
French Peasant Mother (uncredited)

Eugene Borden
Dubois -- Antoinette's Father (uncredited)