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The Big Red One (1980)

Film · 1980 · 162 min · PG · Drama · War

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.

Directed by Samuel Fuller

Starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward, Stéphane Audran, Siegfried Rauch, Serge Marquand

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In cinemas18 July 1980
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First release anywhere28 May 1980

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