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| The Big Red One [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) | ![The Big Red One [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/219C%2BgTThFL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Samuel Fuller
Actors: Stephane Audran, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Joseph Clark, Alain Doutey
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 112688
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Running Time: 162 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 012569705906
ISBN: 1419810731
UPC: 012569705906
EAN: 9781419810732
ASIN: B0007TKNLA
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: May 3, 2005
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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
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 Great August 1, 2007
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. Obviously it's about the second world war, but the way it goes about doing it is different. There are many powerful moments, especially the end one, and all the actors are brilliant, Mark Hammil being better than he was in Star Wars.
At first it seems a little disjointed and sketchy, but that's the way it was meant to be filmed, and when you get into it it really is one of the best war films ever. Seriously. You need to watch this.
5* May 29, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 .
 Absolute rubbish August 5, 2003
1 out of 18 found this review helpful
If you are thinking of buying this movie - don't bother. It is disjointed, boring and there's minimal decent action in it. The worst thing is that unlike the excellent Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan, there is no attempt by the film makers to get the audience to bond with the characters in the movie. I found it superficial and just a hotch potch of different bland action sequences. Give it a miss!
Has no one heard of suspension of disbelief? November 29, 2002
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
 Neither worst nor best. May 14, 2002
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
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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