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The Big Red One
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.
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“The real glory of war is surviving”
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The Big Red One
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- May 28, 1980
- 1h 53m
- English
- Samuel Fuller
- Samuel Fuller
- Released
- $4.5M
- $7.2M
Lorimar Motion Pictures
