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FORWARD MARCH.

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Description: True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.

Cast:
Holley: Van Johnson
Jarvess: John Hodiak
Roderigues: Ricardo Montalban
'Pop' Stazak: George Murphy
Jim Layton: Marshall Thompson
Abner Spudler: Jerome Courtland
Standiferd: Don Taylor
Wolowicz: Bruce Cowling
Kinnie: James Whitmore
'Kipp' Kippton: Douglas Fowley
The Chaplain: Leon Ames
Hansan: Herbert Anderson
Doc: Thomas E. Breen
Denise: Denise Darcel
Bettis: Richard Jaeckel
Garby: James Arness
William J. Hooper: Scotty Beckett
Lt. Teiss: Brett King
Themselves: The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division
Transportation Captain: James Horne
French Peasant Woman: Irene Seidner
Casualty: John Mansfield
Belgian Woman Volunteer: Nan Boardman
Runner: Billy Lechner
German Soldier: Fred Zendar
Soldier Singing 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town': Neville Brand
Levenstein: Michael Browne
Crying Casualty: Norman Budd
Mess Sergeant: George Chandler
Old Woman: Lillian Clayes
G.I. Scout: Gene Coogan
101st Battalion Officer: Carl Saxe
Frenchman: George Dee
French Peasant Man: Albert Pollet
Wounded German Soldier: Victor Desny
Medic Private: Christian Drake
Supply Sergeant: Jim Drum
G.I.: Arthur Walsh
Warrant Officer: Bill Erwin
Gunner: Dan Foster
G.I. from Maine: Edmund Glover
G.I. Straggler: Tommy Noonan
G.I. from New York: Richard Irving
Drill Sergeant: Samuel Jagers
Tanker: Roger McGee
Tank Destroyer Man: William F. Leicester
Army Colonel: Ian MacDonald
G.I. from the South: Jimmie Martin
Non-Com: Sammy Resnick
German Major: John Mylong
K Company G.I.: William Self
German Sergeant: Jerry Paris
Sergeant: Steve Pendleton
Little Girl: Janine Perreau
G.I. Non-Com: Phillip Pine
German Platoon Leader: Otto Reichow
Tanker Filling Up with Gas: John R. Reilly
'Kipp' Kipton: Jon Riffel
German NCO: Henry Rowland
Major: Edmon Ryan
Walking Wounded: Charles Smith
German Captain: Ivan Triesault
GI: Max Trujillo
German Lieutenant: Roland Varno
Mechanic: Tommy Walker
Replacement: Ward Wood

Written by: Robert Pirosh

Director: William A. Wellman

Production: Loew's Incorporated, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Release date: 20 Jan 1950