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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In one of the most powerful films ever made about World War II, director Samuel Fuller tells the semi-autobiographical story of a squad of sharpshooters trying not to die in THE BIG RED ONE. World War I veteran Sergeant Possum (Academy Award winner Lee Marvin) wants to get the job done and to get himself and his squad of green recruits out alive. It's just a job: Kill the enemy before they kill you. And through the seemingly endless bloodshed from North Africa, to Sicily, the Normandy Invasion and the push into Germany, his now-veteran squad--Gruff (Mark Hamill), Zab (Robert Carradine), Vinci (Bobby DiCicco) and Johnson (Kelly Ward)--learns both the brutal horror of war and to never become emotionally close with a new recruit, because he will most likely die. Nominated for the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival
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Bobby DiCicco, Kelly Ward, Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine
Originally produced by Warner Bros. in 1980
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