Film

The Big Red One 1980

Directed by Samuel Fuller

  • Drama, War
  • 113 min
  • PG

Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart.

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.

DramaWarsicily, italyafricaconcentration campworld war iiomaha beachinfantryus armyd-daysergeanthospitalanti war

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