The Big Red One (1980)

R05/28/1980Drama, War1h 53m
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The real glory of war is surviving

Overview

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Lee Marvin

    The Sergeant

  2. Cast 1

    Mark Hamill

    Griff

  3. Cast 1

    Robert Carradine

    Zab

  4. Cast 1

    Bobby Di Cicco

    Vinci

  5. Cast 1

    Kelly Ward

    Johnson

  6. Cast 1

    Stéphane Audran

    Walloon

  7. Cast 1

    Siegfried Rauch

    Schroeder

  8. Cast 1

    Serge Marquand

    Rensonnet

  9. Cast 1

    Charles Macaulay

    General / Captain

**_Sam Fuller’s WW2 tour of North Africa, Sicily and France-to-Czechoslovakia_** Shot in the summer of 1978, this was inspired by Fuller’s experiences in the war with Robert Carradine as Private Zab representing him. It’s a lot to cram into less than 2 hours, and this explains the criticisms that the film comes across as a collection of incidents with little character development. Yet Fuller wanted to include the highlights of his 2.5 years in the war and this delivers as far as that goes. Some say it’s a commentary on how war is an ongoing circle of Hell. The problem with this interpretati...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$4,500,000.00

Revenue $7,206,220.00

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