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The Big Red One [VHS] [1980]
 
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The Big Red One [VHS] [1980]

VHS ~ Lee Marvin
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward
  • Directors: Samuel Fuller
  • Writers: Samuel Fuller
  • Producers: Brian Jamieson, Douglas Freeman, Gene Corman, Richard Schickel
  • Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
  • Language English, French, German, Italian
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • VHS Release Date: 19 Jun 2000
  • Run Time: 111 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CI9T
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,597 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

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 Europe, 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 humour 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--someday perhaps a restoration will allow the director's vision to be seen for the first time. --Robert Horton


Synopsis

An intimate and powerful film which exposes the human side of war, where the real glory lies in surviving.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Has no one heard of suspension of disbelief?, 29 Nov 2002
By William Woodward (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This film is very true, in the way that great art can be true. It is not, admittedly, GREAT film making, yet it does, especially given the period within which it was made, tell many truths about both warfare and the Second World War in particular. We have been spoilt since the late eighties by a stream of realistic war films, which should nevertheless not prevent us from enjoying The Big Red One. With what now seem like school play production values when compared to such as Full Metal Jacket, incedentally filmed at Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, and the Isle of Dogs - before development, realistic it is not, yet it is one of the most truthful depictions of warfare yet made.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 5*, 29 May 2006
By John Fairbairn - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Big Red One [DVD] [2004] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
great film ,all the way from north africa to the horror of the camps.very believable and the actors are true to the war (i was there ) bit weak at the end ,however very enjoyable .
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2 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Neither worst nor best., 14 May 2002
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This offers nothing new to war films, but is better made than most. It has some surprising moments, and captures the mixture of black humour, grimness and downright misery of infantry soldiery. A main point of interest is that both the star and director were veterans of the Second World War, and this shows.

It's production values aren't the best, but it was made in 1980 and is on a par with most films from the period. If you're a war film fan, then this is worth buying if you get a good deal on VHS, but unless the picture is sharpened, the sound is re-mastered and there are some great extras, it won't make a good DVD.

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This film is fantastic. It's not quite Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers, but I don't think it's about the same thing. Read more
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