The Big Red One

1980 • 2h 42m • Drama, War

88%Rotten Tomatoes

Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart.

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.

Director

Samuel Fuller

Writers

Samuel Fuller

Status

Released