The Big Red One (1980)

1980 · 162 min · Drama, War

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 and Kelly Ward.

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