The Big Red One
MovieTitle | The Big Red One |
User score | 6.7 |
Release date | Jan 22, 1980 |
Genre | Drama, War |
Director | Samuel Fuller |
Production country | Ireland, United States of America |
Production companies | Lorimar Productions, United Artists |
Budget | $4,500,000 |
Revenue | $7,206,220 |
Run time | 113 min. |
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.