The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (1980) (original) (raw)
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Original title
The Big Red One
Year
1980
Running time
156 min.
Country
United States
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Genre
War. Drama | II World War
Synopsis
A US Army sergeant who participated in the First World War now leads a rifle squad in the same division in which he's served, the First Infantry. The squad participates in combat action from storming Vichy French Africa into the long seige of Sicily and Italy, into D-Day at Omaha Beach, and onward through the push to Germany. Along the way the squad gets involved in several incidents with civilians, such as a French woman about to give birth and also in a firefight in an insane asylum. Throughout the war the Sergeant has engaged in a mini-battle of wills with Pvt. Griff, a semi-pacifist whose convictions are destroyed in a horrific scene amid the human genocide of a concentration camp in 1945.
Rankings Position
Awards
1980: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)
Critics' reviews
- "If you don't elect to watch The Big Red One through the lens of Sam Fuller's mystique ... you'll realize that it has been celebrated in ways that essentially make virtues of its flaws."
- "The director's gift for bare-knuckles lyricism rescues scene after scene."
- "You must see this film for one unstoppable reason, and that is Lee Marvin."
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- 88 My Favorite War Movies (58)
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