ID

FBW001421      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1980

Original Title

The Big Red One

Other Title(s)

Die Unbesiegbare Erste (German)

Directed by

Samuel Fuller

Produced by

Lorimar Productions, Culver City, CA

Staff

Producer: Merv Adelson, Lee Rich, Gene Corman; Production manager: Rony Yacov (Israel), Peter Cornberg; Assistent production manager: Craig Corman; Artistic supervision: Peter Jamison; Assistent director: Todd Corman, Arne Schmidt; Script: Samuel Fuller; On-screen commentary: James McBride (Commentary Writer); Camera: Adam Greenberg; Editing: Morton Tubor; Editing (video): David Bretherton; Sound editing: Jack A. Finlay; Sound recording: Cyril Collick; Sound, var: William McCaughey (Sound Re-recording), Robert L. Harman (Sound Re-recording), David Dockendorf (Sound Re-recording); Props: William Hankins; Special Effects: Kitty West, Peter Dawson, Jeff Clifford; Makeup: Blanche Shuler; Music: Dana Kaproff; Narration: Robert Reed Carradine; Participation: Bodie Chandler (Musical Supervisor), Alan Weisman (Gunsmith); 2nd unit, director: Lewis Teague; Stunts: Roy Street (Stunt Horseman)

Cast

Lee Marvin (Sergeant); Mark Hamill (Griff); Robert Reed Carradine (Zab); Bobby Di Cicco (Vinci); Kelly Ward (Johnson); Siegfried Rauch (Schroeder); Stéphane Audran (Walloon); Serge Marquand (Rensonnet); Charles Macaulay (General/Captain); Alain Doutey (Broban); Maurice Marsac (Vichy Colonel); Colin Gilbert (Dog Face POW); Joseph Clark (Shep); Ken Campbell (Lemchek); Doug Werner (Switolski); Perry Lang (Kaiser); Howard Delman (Smitty); Marthe Villalonga (Mme. Marbaise); Giovanna Galetti (Woman in Sicilian Village); Gregori Buimistre (The Hun); Shimon Barr (German Male Nurse); Matteo Zoffoli (Sicilian Boy); Abraham Ronai (German Field Marshal); Galit Rotman (Pregnant Frenchwoman)

Length

3093 m / 113'

Format

35mm/farbe (Metrocolor)/1:1,37

Dates

- 16 May 1980: Premiere

Abstract

The story of the First Infrantry Division, told by four soldiers and their sergeant - from entry into the USA in the war up until the absolving of the concentration camps. Fuller gains impressions from succinct peripheral events of the decisive fighting action of the war (North Africa, Sisily, Normandy, Bulge, Germany).

Subject Terms

Battle of the Bulge; Liberators; Liberation of the camps; Liberation from the Nazi rule; Entry into the war of the USA; End of war; Normandy; US Army; World War II