Burt Lancaster (Sergeant Milton Warden), Montgomery Clift (Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt), Deborah Kerr (Karen Holmes), Donna Reed (Alma 'Lorene' Burke), Frank Sinatra (Private Angelo Maggio), Philip Ober (Captain Dana Holmes), Ernest Borgnine (Sergeant 'Fatso' Judson), Jack Warden (Corporal Buckley), Mickey Shaughnessy (Corporal Leva), John Dennis (Sergeant Ike Galovitch), Mary Carver (Nancy), Robert Karnes (Sergeant Turp Thornhill), Tim Ryan (Sergeant Pete Karelsen), Kristine Miller (Georgette), Willis Bouchey (Army Lieutenant Colonel), Robert J. Wilke (Sergeant Henderson), John L. Cason (Corporal Paluso), Harry Bellaver (Private Mazzioli), George Reeves (Sergeant Maylon Stark), Don Dubbins (Friday Clark), Claude Akins (Sergeant 'Baldy' Dhom), Douglas Henderson (Corporal Champ Wilson), John Bryant (Captain G.R. Ross), Merle Travis (Sal Anderson), Margaret Barstow (Roxanne), Mack Chandler (Soldat), Arthur Keegan (Treadwell), Barbara Morrison (Mrs. Kipfer), Vicki Bakken (Suzanne)