The Big Red One

1980 film by Samuel Fuller
Movie film Q303136
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Summary

The Big Red One is a film[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,527 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: Samuel Fuller[3]
  • Screenwriter: Samuel Fuller[4]
  • Composer: Dana Kaproff[5]
  • Genre: drama film[6]
  • Cast member: Lee Marvin[7], Mark Hamill[8], Robert Carradine[9], Bobby Di Cicco[10], Perry Lang[11], Stéphane Audran[12], Serge Marquand[13], Kelly Ward[14], Siegfried Rauch[15], Marthe Villalonga[16], Alain Doutey[17], Charles Macaulay[18], Guy Marchand[19], Maurice Marsac[20]
  • Producer: Gene Corman[21]
  • Production company: Lorimar Television[22]
  • Director of photography: Adam Greenberg[23]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[24]
  • Distribution format: video on demand[25]
  • Review score: 90%[26], 7.9/10[27], 77/100[28]
  • Color: color[29], black-and-white[30]
  • Country of origin: United States[31]
  • Publication date: January 1, 1980[32], July 24, 1980[33], May 16, 1980[34], July 18, 1980[35], July 25, 1980[36], October 2, 1980[37]
  • Distributed by: United Artists[38], Netflix[39]
  • Narrative location: France[40], Sicily[41], Normandy[42], French colonial empire[43], Czechoslovakia[44]
  • Main subject: World War II[45], Operation Overlord[46]
  • Film editor: Morton Tubor[47]
  • Title: The Big Red One[48]
  • MPA film rating: R[49]
  • FSK film rating: FSK 16[50]
  • Duration: 113 minutes[51]
  • Capital cost: 4,000,000 US dollars[52]
  • Box office: 7,206,220 US dollars[53]
  • Set in period: World War II[54], 20th century[55], 1940s[56]

Why It Matters

The Big Red One has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[57] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[58]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . filmdienst.de. filmdienst.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  47. [49] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  48. [50] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  49. [51] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  50. [52] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  51. [53] ↑ . Box Office Mojo. Retrieved . boxofficemojo.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  52. [54] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  53. [55] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  54. [56] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [57] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [58] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Jamie7687 · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Duration → {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+113'}
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  2. 5w ago · Schemathings · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  3. 5w ago · Schemathings · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Narrative location → France, Sicily, Normandy +2
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  4. 6w ago · Schemathings · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Duration → {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+113'}
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  6. 7w ago · Schemathings · 2026-08-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Set in period → World War II, 20th century, 1940s
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  7. 7w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Filmová databáze film id → 21439
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  8. 8w ago · Schemathings · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Set in period → World War II, 20th century, 1940s
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  9. 12w ago · Yirba · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  10. 14w ago · ならちゃん · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  11. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Publication date → +1980-01-01T00:00:00Z, +1980-07-24T00:00:00Z, +1980-05-16T00:00:00Z +3
    Screenwriter → Samuel Fuller
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