The Big Red One (Special Edition) (2-DVD) R

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DVD Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 42 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 3, 2005
  • Originally Released: 1980
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh90%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 9,031
Rating: 3/5 -- meant to be the culmination of a life's work... It didn't come to pass.
Filmcritic.com
May 10, 2005
From the chaos on Omaha Beach to the scene with the little girl dying in Lee Marvin's arms, this is a film that burns deep into your brain.
Total Film
Nov 1, 2008
Rating: 3/4 -- The director's gift for bare-knuckles lyricism rescues scene after scene. Full Review
Boston Globe
Dec 3, 2004
Rating: 5/5 -- Although these are the stock characters of war drama - the sage, grizzled Sarge, the farm boy, the street kid, the nice guy who doesn't want to kill anyone and the witness - Fuller's are particularly credible ordinary people. Full Review
Empire Magazine
May 11, 2005
...Handsome, technically first-rate....Fuller is a nervy, no-nonsense Hollywood original...
New York Times
Jul 18, 1980
[I]t now explodes onscreen with the brash extremes of cynical violence, heartache, and profane humor that define Fuller's cinematic style.
Premiere
Jun 1, 2005
It's vivid stuff, with an intimacy and intensity not found in later war movies...
Sight and Sound
Jul 1, 2005

Product Description:

The famous 1st Div. of the U.S. Army is the background for this World War II film. Marvin stars as an experienced sergeant with four teenagers in his squad. Combat period covers the landing in North Africa through the invasion of Europe.

Description by Warner Home Video:

"The real glory of war," Samuel Fuller said, "is surviving." A decorated combatant with the famed U.S. First Infantry in WWII, Fuller survived. His 1980 film version of his war experiences did not until now. Working with 70,000 feet of vault materials and Fuller's shooting script, critic/filmmaker Richard Schickel heads a reconstruction that adds over 40 minutes and transforms a truncated but admired war film into an epic masterwork. Lee Marvin, in a richly layered performance now revealed as one of his finest, stars as the sergeant of peach-fuzzed riflemen fighting from North Africa to Normandy and across Europe. The film is the squad's combat diary, war as it's fought and sweated and bled, and, maybe, survived.

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Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 116,815
  • UPC: 012569432222
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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