The Big Red One
1980 film by Samuel Fuller / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Big Red One is a 1980 American epic war film written and directed by Samuel Fuller, and starring Lee Marvin alongside an ensemble supporting cast, including Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Siegfried Rauch, Bobby Di Cicco, and Kelly Ward.
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Directed by | Samuel Fuller |
Written by | Samuel Fuller |
Produced by | Gene Corman |
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Cinematography | Adam Greenberg |
Edited by | Morton Tubor |
Music by | Dana Kaproff |
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Distributed by | United Artists (US) ITC Entertainment (UK) |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $4 million |
Box office | $7.2 million[1] |
Based on Fuller's own experiences as a soldier in World War II, it was produced independently on a low budget, and shot on location in Israel as a cost-saving measure. It was heavily cut on its original release, but a restored version, The Big Red One: The Reconstruction, premièred at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, seven years after Fuller's death. Fuller wrote a book with the same title, which was more a companion novel than a novelization of the film, although it features many of the scenes that were originally cut.