THE GALLANT MEN: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION

Details

• Release Year: 1962
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Plot: The early 1960s saw ABC reliving the horrors an heroism of World War II on two fronts--the European campaign on the acclaimed Combat! and the battle for Italy on The Gallant Men. Both programs enjoyed the creative input of directorial genius Robert Altman, who lent his signature layered, humanistic approach to both shows. Altman directed The Gallant Men's pilot, setting the template for what was to follow. Robert McQueeney stars as the series' unique framing device, an Ernie Pyle-type war reporter embedded within Captain Benedict's (William Reynolds) platoon. As McQueeney's reporter narrates the events of the invasion, we see war as it's lived by its foot soldiers, so-called pawns in the game of war, whose determination to finish a fight they didn't start proves that sometimes a pawn can save a kingdom. Also starring Robert Ridgely and Richard X. Slattery, the Six-Disc, 26-Episode Collection features the entire campaign.
• Cast: Robert McQueeney; William Reynolds; Robert Ridgely; Richard X. Slattery; Eddie Fontaine; Roland La Starza; Robert Gothie; Roger Davis; Sandy McPeak; Robert Fortier; Victoria Vetri; John A. Alonzo; Don Kelly; Anthony Becket; George Murdock; Douglas Lambert; Tom Gilson; Donald Zimmerman; Eric Braeden; Peter Breck; Robert Conrad; John Dehner; Chana Eden; Marianna Hill; Buck Kartalian; Gail Kobe; Michael Parks; Mala Powers; Lisa Seagram; Peter Soli; William Windom; Julie Adams; Stanley Adams; Armand Alzamora; Peter Brown; Laura Devon; James Doohan; Dianne Foster; Karl Held; Maria Machado; Ed Nelson; Poncie Ponce; Dorothy Provine; Rodolfo Acosta; Iphigenie Castiglioni; Renzo Cesana; Pamela Grey; Sharon Hugueny; Steve Lander; James Secrest; Rudy Solari; Malachi Throne; John Van Dreelen; Frank Atienza; John Baer; Glenn Cannon; Suzi Carnell; Paul Carr; David Frankham; Kevin Hagen; Albert Paulsen; Ernest Sarracino; Guy Stockwell; Adam Williams; Argentina Brunetti; Anna Bruno-Lena; Frank DeKova; Rudy Dolan; Walter Friedel; Mignone Gret; John Karlen; Rita Lynn; Bill Quinn; Stefan Schnabel; Fred Villani; Sheldon Allman; James Best; David Cadiente; Barry Cahill; Doris Dowling; George Gaynes; DeForest Kelley; Ray Montgomery; George O'Hanlon; Ilse Taurins; Jana Taylor; Eddie Durkin; Peter Hellman; Jack Reitzen; Victor Romito; Victor Salinas; Edward Tierney; William Beckley; John Daheim; Jack Greening; Barnaby Hale; Morgan Jones; Al Lettieri; Charles H. Radilak; Vito Scotti; George Takei; Harlan Warde; Pat Woodell; Richard Angarola; Eduardo Ciannelli; Dennis Cross; Dieter Jacoby; Dal Jenkins; Walter Linden; Ralph Manza; Reva Rose; David Brandon; Charlie Briggs; Jean Del Val; Tommy Farrell; Ed Gilbert; Mako; John McLiam; Paul Micale; Francine York; Rudy Carrela; Walter Janovitz; Lawrence Mann; Eve Marlowe; Peter Morgenstern; Felix Reinsch; James Almanzar; Martin Brandt; Booth Colman; Med Flory; Genevieve Griffin; Andre Philippe; Dolores Quinton; Mario Siletti; Justin Smith; Ross Evans; Joey Russo; Carlo Tricoli; Brian Avery; Gary Campbell; Philip Carey; Don Matheson; Charles Smith; Julie Van Zandt; Ray Danton; Van Williams; Earl Hammond; Robert Glenn; Dick Tufeld; Louie Elias; Roydon Clark; Tony Epper; Robert Biheller; Paul Busch; Bennie E. Dobbins; Del Monroe; Yale Summers; Robert Champion; Kurt Landen; Richard Peel; Charles R. Rondeau; Richard C. Sarafian; Robert Sparr; Robert Altman; Robert Totten; Leslie H. Martinson; Richard DeLong Adams; Richard M. Bluel; Leonard Brown; William Bruckner; William P. D'Angelo; Jerry Davis; Arthur Fitz-Richard; Elton Floring; Berne Giler; David Giler; Herman Groves; William Koenig; David Lang; Stephen Lord; Richard Macaulay; James Merriam Moore; James O'Hanlon; Ken Pettus; Andrew Rosenthal; Charles B. Smith; William L. Stuart; Don Tait; Halsted Welles; Jason Wingreen
• Director: Charles R. Rondeau
• Runtime: 21:40
• Company: Warner Archive
• Media Format: Series