The Big Red One
by Samuel Fuller
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Actor: Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward, Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert CarradineDirector: Samuel Fuller
Brand: MARVIN,LEE
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
Writer: Samuel Fuller
Editor: Bryan McKenzie
Producer: Brian Jamieson
Producer: Douglas Freeman
Producer: Gene Corman
Producer: Richard Schickel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-04-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Summary of The Big Red One
A dramatic war story of five fighting men who composed a rifle unit in the desert of North Africa.Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG
Release Date: 5-OCT-2004
Media Type: DVD
In Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg depicts the D-day landings with a realism lauded by veterans. The Big Red One depicts the D-day landings, too, and it was made by a veteran. Writer-director Samuel Fuller, who served in the First Infantry Division from North Africa to Czechoslovakia (including the Normandy landings), made a career out of swift, punchy B movies, such as Pickup on South Street and The Naked Kiss. The Big Red One became Fuller's nod to A-movie filmmaking, yet it has the solid, matter-of-fact perspective of the ground-level infantryman. The episodic action ranges all over the European theater, as a tough squad of American GIs (including Mark Hamill and Robert Carradine) follow their hard-bitten sergeant (Lee Marvin, at his best) and try to stay alive. Filmed mostly in Israel, the film delivers on the requisite war-movie conventions and tough-guy humor but also introduces notes of poetry. Fuller's D-day doesn't match the pyrotechnics of Spielberg's version, but it creates power from the simple image of a dead soldier's watch, ticking away in blood-soaked surf. A fine and memorable picture, The Big Red One might have been even greater had it been released in Fuller's full-length cut--not until 2005 did a reconstruction allow the director's vision to be seen for the first time. --Robert Horton
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