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The Big Red One

The Big Red One

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 22, 1980

Runtime

1h 53m

Genres

Drama, War

User Score

67%

Original Title

The Big Red One

Production Companies

Lorimar Productions, United Artists

Director

Samuel Fuller

Budget

$4,500,000

Revenue

$7,206,220

Description

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.