Red Ball Express (film)

Red Ball Express
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBudd Boetticher
Screenplay byJohn Michael Hayes
Story byMarcy Klauber
(as Marcel Klauber)
William Grady Jr.
(as Billy Grady Jr.)
Produced byAaron Rosenberg
StarringJeff Chandler
Alex Nicol
CinematographyMaury Gertsman
Edited byEdward Curtiss
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • May 24, 1952 (1952-05-24) (Los Angeles)
  • May 29, 1952 (1952-05-29) (New York City)
  • July 4, 1952 (1952-07-04) (United States)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.5 million (US rentals)[1]

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]

  1. ^ 'Top Box-Office Hits of 1952', Variety, January 7, 1953
  2. ^ Budd Boetticher: The Last Interview Wheeler, Winston Dixon. Film Criticism; Meadville Vol. 26, Iss. 3, (Spring 2002): 52-0_3.