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The Big Red One

The Big Red One

6,7 /10 (343 Votes)
1980 EN 113 min

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.

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Release date

28/05/1980

Votes

343

Popularity

2.8

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

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

113 min

Budget

$4,500,000

Revenue

$7,206,220

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Wuchak

Wuchak

2025-10-23

⭐ 7

**_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…

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