The Big Red One (1980)

Directors

Samuel Fuller

Cast

Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward, Stéphane Audran, Siegfried Rauch, Serge Marquand, Charles Macaulay, Alain Doutey, Maurice Marsac, Colin Gilbert, Joseph Clark, Ken Campbell, Doug Werner, Perry Lang, Howard Delman, Marthe Villalonga, Giovanna Galletti, Gregori Buimistre, Shimon Barr, Matteo Zoffoli, Abraham Ronai, Galit Rotman, Samuel Fuller

The story

In a sepia-tinted prologue, a United States Army private (Lee Marvin) kills a German soldier with his trench knife, not believing the man's claims the Great War is over. His company commander then tells him the war ended four hours earlier. In November 1942, during World War II, the US soldier is now a sergeant in the "Big Red One" leading a squad of infantrymen consisting of Private Griff, a cartoonist, Zab, an aspiring writer, Vinci and Johnson.

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