The Big Red One - 2DVD

“The real glory of war,” said Samuel Fuller, “is surviving it.” Fuller, a decorated soldier of the famed U.S. 1st Infantry Division in World War II, survived. His 1980 film version of those wartime experiences did not… until now. Critic and filmmaker Richard Schickel, working from 70,000 feet of archival footage and Fuller’s screenplay, is behind a reconstruction that adds more than 40 minutes, transforming the truncated yet acclaimed war film into an epic masterpiece. Lee Marvin, in a richly layered performance now regarded as one of his finest, plays a sergeant leading young infantrymen fighting from North Africa through Normandy and across Europe. The film is a combat diary of a unit—war as it truly is: lived, sweated, and bled. And perhaps even survived...