Film · 1980 · War drama
The Big Red One
Directed by Samuel Fuller
1980
★ 3.3 editorial score
Samuel Fuller fought in the division he is filming and waited thirty-five years to tell it: a squad from North Africa to Sicily to Normandy, filmed as a job that does not end.
“An episodic account of five gunmen—the commanding Sarge , rash Zab, weak-kneed Griff, wisecracking Vinci, and hemorrhoid-plagued Johnson—and their travails through North Africa, Sicily, Germany, and Czechoslovakia, Fuller's film (based on his own experiences in the military) is an epic depiction of a soldier's life told within a contextual vacuum.”
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