THE BIG RED ONE - THE RECONSTRUCTION (TWO DISC SPECIAL EDITION--WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1980
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Plot: Cannes Classics; ; 'The real glory of war,' Samuel Fuller said, 'is surviving.' A decorated combatant with the famed U.S. First Infantry in WWII, Fuller survived. His 1980 film version of his war experiences did not until now. Working with 70,000 feet of vault materials and Fuller's shooting script, critic/filmmaker Richard Schickel heads a reconstruction that adds over 40 minutes and transforms a truncated but admired war film into an epic masterwork. Lee Marvin, in a richly layered performance now revealed as one of his finest, stars as the sergeant of peach-fuzzed riflemen fighting from North Africa to Normandy and across Europe. The film is the squad's combat diary, war as it's fought and sweated and bled, and, maybe, survived.
• Cast: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward, Stéphane Audran, Siegfried Rauch, Serge Marquand, Charles Macaulay, Alain Doutey, Maurice Marsac, Colin Gilbert, Joseph Clark, Ken Campbell, Doug Werner, Perry Lang, Howard Delman, Marthe Villalonga, Giovanna Galletti, Gregori Buimistre, Shimon Barr, Matteo Zoffoli, Abraham Ronai, Galit Rotman, Samuel Fuller, Pascal Breuer, Walter Flesch, Anat Harel, Ulli Kinalzik, Christa Lang, Guy Marchand, Yosef Polak, Gene Corman, Douglas Freeman, Richard Schickel, Adam Greenberg, Morton Tubor, Bryan McKenzie, Dana Kaproff
• Director: Samuel Fuller
• Runtime: 2:42
• Company: Warner Bros.
• Media Format: Movie