1980 · war · wwii · fuller
The Big Red One
Directed by Samuel Fuller1h 53m1980
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.
Our read: The Big Red One (1980) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded war · wwii · fuller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme war / wwii, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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