“The Big Red One” quotes
(1980)
Title The Big Red One
Year 1980
Director Samuel Fuller
Genre Drama, War
Year 1980
Director Samuel Fuller
Genre Drama, War
Plot – The war has ended few hours ago, but an American sergeant is unaware of it and kills a German soldier. During World War II the sergeant joins the department called 'The Big Red One', whose members are legendary and brave soldiers. The platoon makes honor from Tunisia to Sicily, from Normandy to Belgium and in Czechoslovakia they enter a Nazi concentration camp. Here the sergeant faces again a German soldier and shoots him, but this time he strives to save him.
All actors – 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
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“I'm gonna dedicate my book to those who shot but didn't get shot, because it's about survivors. And surviving is the only glory in war, if you know what I mean.”
“- Pvt. Kaiser, 1st Squad: Did I kill the guy that killed me?
- The Sergeant: Yes.”“I can understand you being horny and all, Fritz... but you have bad breath.”
“By now we'd come to look at all replacements as dead men who temporarily had the use of the arms and legs. They came and went so fast and so regularly that sometimes we didn't even learn their names. Truth is, after a while, we sort of avoided getting to know them.”
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