The Big Red One

1980 · 113 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 22,054 VOTES · DIR. Samuel Fuller

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,035 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:04:03 - Permission to enter? - Come.
00:07:16 What about you, Griff?
00:12:25 Americans! I surrender my troops to your hands.
00:17:52 ... and they're deader than the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D.C.
00:27:08 Don't want to disillusion these infants, huh?
00:36:20 Sixteenth.
00:42:52 - Griff! - Ho!
00:47:44 I... I brought some water.
00:52:29 Anyway, the sergeant would've shot him if he tried it.
01:00:45 He wants a casket for his mother to sleep in.
01:10:54 - Who are you? - I'm Lemchek.
01:15:40 Exit E- 1 was blocked by a huge barbed-wire tank trap.
01:24:10 - Buzz bomb? - Yeah, V-1 rocket.
01:29:39 A platoon of dead Americans.
01:36:11 - Is she wounded? - Easy.
01:39:06 Come on, damn it, push.
01:48:06 Did you ever figure out what those palm trees are doing here in Belgium?
01:51:46 Now I come back here.
01:56:44 I can't see a goddamned thing.
02:01:51 No. It's for my friend.
02:06:00 Can't you read? That sign says "private party. "
02:12:57 ...on a watch...
02:16:47 Hitler gave him a state funeral...
02:37:39 Over here.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,035
Dialogue density9.2 lines / min
First line00:04:03
Final line02:37:39

Production Record

DirectorSamuel Fuller
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4,500,000
Revenue$7,206,220
IMDb votes22,054