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Big Red One, The (1980)

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All Time

of 190,142

1,135

1980's

of 12,798

148

1980

of 3,766

11
Action
- Action All Time
  
  of 5,895
  
  141
  
  Action of 1980
  
  of 51
  
  6
  
  Action of the 1980's
  
  of 854
  
  32
Drama
- Drama All Time
  
  of 37,999
  
  646
  
  Drama of 1980
  
  of 153
  
  3
  
  Drama of the 1980's
  
  of 2,048
  
  65
War
- War All Time
  
  of 2,149
  
  66
  
  War of 1980
  
  of 5
  
  1
  
  War of the 1980's
  
  of 136
  
  6

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Big Red One, The (1980) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars

Overall Rating:2.9914

Avg Critic Score:2.8357

Big Red One, The (1980) Movie Reviews

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Poor

3.51%

(2)

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

... displays both raw power and the hint of war's brutality. ...read the complete Big Red One movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Sam Fuller's "The Big Red One" is a lot of war stories strung together in a row, almost as if the director filmed it for the thirty-fifth reunion of his old Army outfit, and didn't want to ...read the complete Big Red One movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Is it unlikely these five would be survivors? Not to Sam Fuller, who wrote and directed "The Big Red One" (1980), based on his own combat memories. ...read the complete Big Red One movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

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MovieFreak.com (Dylan Grant)

In the late 1970's, after an eight year absence from feature filmmaking, Samuel Fuller finally got the financing for the story he had been waiting more than thirty years to tell, the story of his life during war time. World War II was the defining...read the complete Big Red One, The (1980) review at MovieFreak.com (Dylan Grant)

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BBC Films

This is fictional life based on factual death": so begins The Big Red One, writer/director Sam Fuller's classic semi-autobiographical account of his WWII tour of duty with the US First Infantry....read the complete Big Red One, The (1980) review at BBC Films

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Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)

The squareness of the production seems out of place, anachronstic, for a 1980 film....read the complete Big Red One, The (1980) review at Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)

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