Origin: U.S. (Lorimar Television) 1980Length: 163 minutes(restored version)
Format: Metrocolor
Director: Samuel Fuller
Producer: Gene Corman
Screenplay: Samuel Fuller
Photography: Adam Greenberg
Music: Dana Kaproff
Cast: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward, Stephane Audran, Siegfried Rauch, Serge Marquand, Charles Macaulay, Alain Doutey, Maurice Marsac, Colin Gilbert, Joseph Clark, Ken Campbell, Doug Werner
Cannes Film Festival: Samuel Fuller(Golden Palm nomination)
Links: The Big Red One Trailer, The Big Red One Wiki
The most ambitious war film in Samuel Fuller's career, a chronicle of his own First Infantry Division in World War II, The Big Red One was a long time coming. When it finally made it to the screen, a wholesale reediting by the studio and a tacked-on narration(by filmmaker Jim McBride) made it something less than Fuller had intended - he originally provided the studio with four-hour and two-hour cuts, both of which were rejected. Fuller enthusiasts still hold out hope that either or both of these versions might someday be restored. Nevertheless, it's a grand-style, idiosyncratic war epic, with wonderful poetic ideas, intense emotions, and haunting images rich in metaphysical portent.
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