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The Big Red One is a 1980 American epic war film written and directed by Samuel Fuller, and starring Lee Marvin alongside an ensemble supporting cast, including Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Siegfried Rauch, Bobby Di Cicco, and Kelly Ward.
Jul 18, 1980 · A hardened sergeant and his men fight their way through Europe in this 1980 film by Samuel Fuller. The title refers to the red number "1" on their shoulder sleeve insignia, not to the color of the war.
Jul 21, 2014 · In one of the most powerful films ever made about World War II, director Samuel Fuller tells the semi-autobiographical story of a squad of sharpshooters tryi...
Currently you are able to watch "The Big Red One" streaming on The Roku Channel, Tubi TV for free with ads or buy it as download on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Microsoft Store.
A war movie directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill and Robert Carradine. It follows the experiences of a sergeant and his men in World War II, from North Africa to D-Day to Germany.
It was officially nicknamed "The Big Red One" (abbreviated "BRO") after its shoulder patch and is also nicknamed "The Fighting First." The division has also received troop monikers of "The Big Dead One" and "The Bloody First" as puns on the respective officially sanctioned nicknames. It is currently based at Fort Riley, Kansas.
The restored "Big Red One" is able to suggest the scope and duration of the war, the way it's one damned thing after another, the distances traveled, the pile-up of experiences that are numbing most of the time but occasionally produce an episode as perfect as a short story.
