Movie Details
| Title: | The Big Red One | |
| Director: | Samuel Fuller | |
| Year: | 1980 | |
| Genre: | War | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 11.11.06 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (5)
- Forty Guns
- House of Bamboo
- Shark!
- The Steel Helmet
- White Dog
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 11.11.06 | Borrowed | I wanted to see the reconstruction. Maybe I was blacking out but it seemed to me that several bits and pieces were actually cut from the theatrical cut, like in the beginning where they establish that Zab's a writer and Griff's a cartoonist and all that, or the very very beginning where they explain how the big red one came to be... but there's a lot added too including some really Fuller-esque little anecdotes that are fun. Fuller's even in one scene as a photographer, which is cool to see. The disc also has two pretty in-depth docs, one on the movie and reconstruction and one on Fuller, both of which I liked. I still think the movie shows its budget at times and suffers because of it, but if I saw that in 1980 I would've been blown away. Of course now that Saving Private Ryan and even moreso Band of Brothers exists, this isn't quite as impactful, but oh well. Lee Marvin's still awesome. |
