The Big Red One
Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart.
Country
Production
Budget
$4 500 000
Box office
$7 206 220
Director
Actors
Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward, Stéphane Audran, Siegfried Rauch, Serge Marquand, Charles Macaulay, Alain Doutey
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Gene Corman
Camera operator
Adam Greenberg
Composer
Dana Kaproff
Artist
Audition
Editing
Morton Tubor
Whole Team (35)
Whole Team (35)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- Most of the film was shot in Israel, and director Samuel Fuller (1912-1997) later admitted that he was always disconcerted when, after filming a scene, German soldiers or SS officers would remove their helmets, revealing yarmulkes underneath. Furthermore, between takes they often sat right on the set in Nazi uniforms, speaking Hebrew or reading the Torah.
- Samuel Fuller arranged a kind of boot camp for the actors involved in the film. Lee Marvin (1924-1987), a former Marine himself, served as an instructor and trained the actors in all the details, down to how to hold and reload a rifle at the same time.
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