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Originally Posted by C.Evans
Hi JC, thanks for this. Also, did you guys know that there was a movie made about these Gents? It's called: The Red Ball Express w/ Jeff Chandler, Charles Drake, Sidney Poitier and Gregg Palmer. Very good fictional account based on few facts about the: Red Ball Express.
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Yes I did. Ive seen it a few times. There was also a short lived TV series too called Roll Out.
Roll Out is a short lived
sitcom that aired Friday evenings on
CBS during the
1973-1974 television season. Starring
Ed Begley, Jr. and
Garrett Morris, the series was set in France during
World War II and was loosely based on the
1952 film
Red Ball Express.
In an effort to cash in on the success of
M*A*S*H, CBS made the choice to air another Army comedy. Instead of Army medics,
Roll Out highlighted the pratfalls of the supply drivers of the 5050th Quartermaster Trucking Company of the U.S. Third Army's Red Ball Express, whose staff was mainly
African American. The series attempted to use the World War II setting as a commentary on race relations, just as
M*A*S*H's Korean War setting was also a commentary on the
Vietnam War.
The show aired opposite
ABC's popular sitcom,
The Odd Couple. Subsequently,
Roll Out failed to win its timeslot and was canceled after one season.
Roll Out - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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