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The Big Red One (1980)

War | 113 minutes / 162 minutes (reconstructed version)
3,42 332 votes

Genre: War

Duration: 113 minuten / 162 minuten (reconstructed version)

Alternative title: Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One

Country: United States

Directed by: Samuel Fuller

Stars: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill and Robert Carradine

IMDb score: 7,1 (22.140)

Releasedate: 22 January 1980

The Big Red One plot

"Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart."

WWII. The four young soldiers Griff, Zab, Vinci and Johnson all wear the 'Big Red One', the badge of the elite unit of the shock troops within the US Army. Together with their sergeant, they are sent to North Africa, Sicily and Normandy. The sergeant is like a father to the young GIs, not to say their guardian angel. The boys all always return unharmed.

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Filmkriebel

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Surviving is the only glory in war

Understated war classic .... that much is certain. I've seen the regular shorter version. Fuller drew on his own war experiences to portray life as a Jan Soldier during WW II. The Big Red One follows a platoon through their various rambles from the desert of North Africa to Omaha Beach to the gruesome finale in Falkenau.

Sometimes the war is presented with great cynicism ("a soldier kills, he doesn't murder"), with Lee Marvin fully involved in this absurd logic. How he without blinking sends his men to their deaths at the landing in Normandy by calling out their numbers one after one I found blood curdling. Those are the kinds of things Fuller wants to show: the dehumanization... and then the little things that bring people to their senses like the birth in the tank .

I thought the last scenes in the concentration camp with Griff going crazy and Marvin and the boy were the best in the whole movie. It may be a low-budget film with poor visuals, but the film makes an impression and the scenes have an impact. Must see!

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scorsese

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Excellent film about a group of soldiers advancing from North Africa to Germany during the Second World War. The film starts off a bit messy and takes a while to get going. But what follows are a number of strongly constructed scenes in which the madness of war is well brought to the fore. The action scenes may be less large-scale than later films, but that doesn't make them any less powerful.

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