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The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1980]

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Lee Marvin (Actor), Mark Hamill (Actor), Samuel Fuller (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward
  • Directors: Samuel Fuller
  • Producers: Gene Corman
  • Format: PAL
  • Subtitles: German, Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, English, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 2 May 2005
  • Run Time: 151 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000803PRM
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 31,977 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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With over 70,000 feet of extra footage to go through, critic/fimmaker Richard Schikel added over 40 minutes to get as close as possible to the late Samuel Fuller's orginal cut of his last film. Lee Marvin plays a gravel-voiced, tough sergeant who, during World War Two, transforms a squad of fresh-faced troops into professional fighting men - and survivors. They battle their way from North Africa, through Sicily, Omaha Beach and Belgium to the ultimate horror of the Nazi Death Camps.

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5.0 out of 5 starsFullers masterpiece restored to it,s full gory glory
By russell clarke VINE VOICE on 8 Jun. 2005
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This film originally premiered at Cannes in 1980. Unfortunately the producers, fearful it would seem of bringing down another "Heavens Gate" on the film industry, had eviscerated director Sam Fuller's original lengthy cut to less than two hours. This rendered the film so incomprehensible that it needed a voice over, a la "Bladerunner", to bridge the gaps where the original footage was missing so it made some sort of vague sense to the audience. The producers had deemed also that Fullers film was too violent. Imagine a war film too violent. It's a bit like complaining about a comedy because it's too funny.
Last year Cannes was treated to this restored version of Fullers bloody visceral masterpiece and it went down a storm. At last this film was seen as Fuller originally intended it, eight years after his death? Restored with original material by a team headed by film critic Richard Schikel, who provides a typically dry but informative commentary, this is a film with the resolute stamp of empirical authority. Fuller had fought inWW2, taking part in the Omaha beach landings and his minds eye view of proceedings lends the film a veracity few films can match.
The main characters are all part of the First Infantry, the "Big Red One", so called because of the red ribbons they wore on their shoulders. Ex Marine Lee Marvin in his last great role plays the gruff Sergeant along with Privates Griff, Zab, Vinci and Johnson. Griff is played by Mark Hamill at the peak of his "Star Wars" fame, and we see him morph from a reticent soldier to a diffident pitiless killer.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsSprawling, just like war, and beats all other war movies
By Daren S. Williams on 8 May 2005
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An amazing film - you can understand why the producers didn't like it because it's too sprawling, and serious, funny, desolate and thoughtful all at the same time. How do you make sense of something of the scope of this movie in 2.5 hours. Yes, the film is sprawling, and the gaps are noticable, but the sheer number of scenes describing the full diversity of human feeling are to be treasured.
And if you like Lee Marvin then you need to see him in this, possibly his best acting role ever. This man doesn't need words as his face speaks volumes, like all the great actors of yester-year. There's some great supporting actors here too, and you'll finally realise Mark Hammill could act before he got his Star Wars cheque-for-life.
But I digress, so back to this movie. Put simply, if you like Saving Private Ryan or (the great) Band of Brothers then you need to see this movie, to realise how much they depend on it.
But forget those action movies. This is a far more complex film, as it tries to make more sense of the senselessness of war more than any other war movie, bar perhaps Mallick's Thin Red Line and Kubrick's Paths of Glory. They're the only other war movies with this depth of thought, emotion and humanity. And, of course, the sheer waste of war.
Watch this and discover a lost gem, a multi faceted look into the affect war has on us.
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4.0 out of 5 starsPrivate Ryans Dad...
By typejunky on 31 May 2006
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Without doubt this version is one of the greatest examinations of the effects of war on the individual. While it still displays the lack of realism in the battle sequences which are redolent of it's roots in the war films of the 60s and 70s, drawing comparisons to recent war films special effects and approach to realism being pointless given it's age; it's ability to shock by using the transformations that overtake the men as a result of the continual fighting and the horrors of war is the point of the film and the humanity displayed by them despite the ordeal. It also draws an interesting parallel to elements of both "Saving Private Ryan" and "Band of Brothers", it must have been inspirational in both cases. Far more than an action film and a fine example from it's era.
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe voice of experience
By Peter Scott-presland on 4 Mar. 2009
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Often when a film has been "lost" there's a good reason for it, but "The Big Red One" (emphasis on One when pronouncing it) is a classic case of stupid studio butchery. I have to say that this is also a film which will divide people; my partner and I had a violent argument after seeing it. I thought it pretty much knocked any other war film into a cocked hat, but he couldn't see what was special about it. In particular he seized on what I agreed is the weakest section of the film, where Lee Marvin tries to bring a traumatised concentration camp boy victim back to some kind of life. He does this with the aid of a musical box, and very glibly. Fuller always got tacky with small children around (think if the Indian child in "Run of the Arrow") and while I will forgive him almost anything for his great moments, this is a long sequence and almost fatally slack at the point in the movie we should be galopping home.

Fuller's life and his movies were shaped by his WW2 experience, and this account of a small unit led by The Sergeant (Lee Marvin) from North Africa in 1942 to the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945 is his most autobiographical movie. In the platoon there is a cigar-chewing character, Zab (Robert Carradine), a potential writer of thrillers, who is clearly based on Fuller down to a physical resemblance, and Fuller himself even makes a brief appearance as a war correspondent shooting 8mm movie footage. This feeling of authenticity (which is not the same as realism) is what makes the movie stand out for me. If ever a movie showed you what it was like to be in a war, this is it.Read more ›
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