Un sergent endurci et les quatre membres principaux de son unité d'infanterie tentent de survivre à la seconde guerre mondiale alors qu'ils se déplacent de bataille en bataille dans toute l'... Tout lireUn sergent endurci et les quatre membres principaux de son unité d'infanterie tentent de survivre à la seconde guerre mondiale alors qu'ils se déplacent de bataille en bataille dans toute l'Europe.Un sergent endurci et les quatre membres principaux de son unité d'infanterie tentent de survivre à la seconde guerre mondiale alors qu'ils se déplacent de bataille en bataille dans toute l'Europe.
- Récompenses
- 2 victoires et 2 nominations
- Underground Walloon Fighter at Asylum
- (as Stephane Audran)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe bulk of the picture was shot in Israel, and director Samuel Fuller remarked that it was unsettling after a scene was shot when the German soldiers and SS troops would take off their helmets and Fuller would see them wearing yarmulkes; also, between takes they would be sitting around the set in full Nazi uniform speaking Hebrew or reading the Torah.
- GaffesIn the crematorium scene Griff doesn't fire 18 rounds as often thought. He fires 8, then if you listen closely, the ninth noise is a clip ejected, and the tenth is the sound of a new clip being inserted. He then fires another 8, which is correct.
- Citations
[the troop stops before a memorial]
Johnson: Would you look at how fast they put the names of all our guys who got killed?
The Sergeant: That's a World War One memorial.
Johnson: But the name's are the same.
The Sergeant: They always are.
- Versions alternativesIn 2004, film critic Richard Schickel restored this film to a new director's cut length of approximately 160 minutes. Using Samuel Fuller's production notes and the full-length, unexpurgated script, Schickel restored the footage that was forced to be cut by the studio upon its original 1980 release (which runs 116 minutes). The restored version's DVD release date is 3 May 2005. This longer, epic-length version is closer to Fuller's original vision for the film.
- ConnexionsFeatured in A tout coeur: Épisode datant du 7 mai 1984 (1984)
- Bandes originalesHorst-Wessel-Lied
Written by Horst Wessel
Too ahead of it's time to be appreciated during it's birth, and too dated to be appreciated in hindsight.
Some of the other user comments suggest this film is inferior to modern war films. Of course this film is not at the caliber of Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers in it's war scenes. How could it? When it is of a time closer to The Green Berets (John Wayne wins The Vietnam War) then to anything that came after it. Infact I would go as far as to say that this film broke the first ground, and made films like Platoon, Hamburger Hill, and Full Metal Jacket socially acceptable, and paved the way for films like Saving Private Ryan. Sure, Apocalypse Now has better War scenes, but is so fictional in it's scripting and "epic" war moments that it missed the point of the soldier on the front (and is widely regarded as being unrealistic by Vietnam Vets). The Big Red One tells the story from a WW2 Vet's point of view, Sam Fuller, and is wonderfully acted by a WW2 vet, Lee Marvin. Perhaps the last film to have such credits.
Sure, The Big Red One is cheesy, and harkens to a time when war films were more about the characters, then the violence. Still, there is something charming about the scripting, and Lee Marvin holds the movie together, while being surrounded by actors who were trendy on the cheap for 1979. The film also has technical inaccuracy, as in the Sherman tanks used as Panzers. However, the real strength of the film is in the script, and not in the battles. It breaks ground in it's defiance of films like the Sands of Iwa Jima. The soldier is not a clean sterile fighter for the holiest do goodynest army of all time, he is a human being locked in a battle for survival, and most importantly, he hasn't lost his sense of humor, or his libido.
Regardless of it's dated, almost 70's TV movie feel, I must mention that this film was first to show D-Day in a light other than that cast by The Longest Day, and uses some very clever cinematography to illustrate the violence. Sam Fuller consciously decided to make the battles less violent, and choose to focus on the characters instead, depicted the main characters as cynical and the fallen as humorous tragically short lived figures. This film also was first to introduce words like "replacement", "non-Coms" and "Krouts" to the war movie dictionary. It has the entire bangalore scene from Saving Private Ryan (although merely a concept compared to SPR) and shows North Africa, Italy, France, Germany, and a concentration camp. Before this film, WW2 was only depicted in such an epic manor that Bible films are seemingly tame.
THE BOTTOM LINE: This film was one of the last war pictures to emerge from the dying studio system, and is comparable in the way of battles to The Green Berets, Longest Day, etc. However it shines in the script category. and was first to show soldiers as young clumsy men, and not heroes. It attempts almost too much and that is it's strongest limitation. Still, a must see for war movie fans who can appreciate the older films. 7/10.
- D_Psypher
- 27 sept. 2003
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langues
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- The Big Red One
- Lieux de tournage
- Sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Budget
- 4 500 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 7 206 220 $US
- Montant brut mondial
- 7 206 823 $US
- Durée1 heure 53 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Dolby(original release)
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1