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?
00:12:30 Frenchmen, we do not accept your surrender.
00:18:02 I wonder what she looks like.
00:27:20 I didn't murder him, Gerd, I killed him...
00:36:41 You with the 16th?
00:43:12 Shep.
00:48:13 You think...? You think maybe I'll get it?
00:56:58 Yes, sir!
01:01:40 Think this kid is leading us into a bushwhack?
01:11:17 My number two for your number 10.
01:16:20 ... and you assembled it along the way, by hand.
01:25:25 And I printed it.
01:32:19 - What color is that piping? - White.
01:37:09 It's okay, lady.
01:40:15 Push. Push.
01:48:49 ...and he went on to tell this guy...
01:53:27 We got another Rockefeller in the company here.
01:59:27 You know, none of you guys showed up to the doctor for frostbite.
02:02:49 Well, okay, that's more like it.
02:10:41 He says that they're the Volkssturm, the People's Army.
02:14:49 How fast do the safety fuses burn?
02:18:31 You twist something on the can, and the soup turns hot.
10:00:00 do you?

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,035
Dialogue density9.2 lines / min
First line00:04:03
Final line10:00:00

Production Record

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