The Big Red One
DramaWar
6.684/10
|US
|en
|113 min
Release Date: 1980-05-28
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.
Production Companies
Lorimar Motion Pictures
User Reviews
Wuchak
7/10
**_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 wa...
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