The Big Red One 1980 123movies

Watch: The Big Red One 1980 123movies, Full Movie Online – The story of a hardened army sergeant and four of his men, from their first fight at the Kasserine Pass after the invasion of North Africa through to the invasion of Sicily, D-Day, the Ardennes forest and the liberation of a concentration camp at the end of the war. As the five of them fight – and survive to fight yet again in the next battle – new recruits joining the squad are swatted down by the enemy on a regular basis. The four privates are naturally reluctant to get to know any of the new recruits joining the squad, who become just a series of nameless faces..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 20,126
	90% | RottenTomatoes
	77/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 234 Popularity: 11.298 | TMDB

Reviews:

A squad experiences every possible emotion fighting its way through WWII
This is an under-appreciated war film. You never see it on TV, I know of no widescreen version available on video, and no one talks about it in books, newspapers or on television, but it is worth renting. Made up of a number of short vignettes, the main characters experience everything from delivering a baby (in a tank!) to D-Day on Omaha Beach to liberating a death camp as they fight their way through Africa, Sicily, and Western Europe. I understand that it is semi-autobiographical, and boy, does it pack a wallop. From the opening scene to history repeating (almost) itself at the end, it is well-crafted, says a lot and leaves the viewer changed. When the voice-over at the end says that the only glory in war is surviving, you KNOW why. Watch in particular for how Lee Marvin leads his squad, in particular when he gives an extra clip of M-1 ammunition to one of his soldiers at the Death Camp to help the soldier process, in a unique way, the horror of what they have discovered. It is unforgettable.

Farcical Unlimited Cliches
About half an hour into watching this film I decided instead to count the Hollywood cliches instead of trying to believe in the plot.For those lucky enough not to have seen this film they were in no particular order: 1.Persistent lazy Hollywood producers allowing non-Americans to speak English to each other, e.g. German soldiers.At least Joseph E Levine insisted in his film “The Longest Day” (1962) that the French spoke French, German spoke German etc, and this was 18 years before the subject film was made!For those not able to understand these languages sub titles are always available.This lazy habit immediately destroys a film’s credibility and convinces you all you are seeing is acting.It seems if you are going to portray an historic event you might at least film it in a credible way.

2.Untrained soldiers skilled in obstetrics in the middle of a battle field!

3.You see a concentration camp boy victim apparantly unable to walk and is laid down on the commandant’s bed.Almost immediately he is seen to walk out under his own steam and then eating looking almost healthy when he refused food before.Then he cannot walk again and finally expires while riding piggy back on the sergeant!

4.The usual 1940 and 50s method of soldiers dying on screen i.e. a sudden hand up to “the wound” and then keeling over.

5.Usual portrayal of skilled German soldiers as stupid and unable to defend themselves.

6.Omaha Beach on a shoestring budget on D-Day – the platoon wins the beach battle by itself!

7.A superannuated sergeant (far too old for active service in WWII) going around Europe without any officer in charge of him and his platoon and when he asks for help from Brigade is told, “you’re on your own”.

8.A female resistance guerilla infiltrates into a lunatic asylum and proceeds to cut the throats of trained German soldiers.All medical staff were vetted and under German orders and would not have been able to secrete her into this type of establishment.

9.Little or no character development, so one feels no sympathy for the characters portrayed.

10.An insurance actuary would not accept when assessing the odds on survival, that the principal characters would all come through unscathed at the end of the film after risking their lives at Sicily (1943), D- Day (1944) and sundry other combat engagements. Well those are my top ten cliches. I don’t want to bore readers with others.There should be a law in Hollywood at making films as excrutiating as this.I awarded it 2/10.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 53 min (113 min), 2 hr 42 min (162 min) (reconstructed)
Budget 4500000
Revenue 7206220
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, War
Director Samuel Fuller
Writer Samuel Fuller
Actors Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital (reconstruction), Dolby (original release)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Metrocolor, Culver City (CA), USA, Technicolor (prints)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm