Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This version of & The Big Red One& contains 40 minutes of extra footage that was removed prior to the original release Lee Marvin stars in this episodic retelling of the exploits of the American First Infantry Division during World War II focusing on the squad&s sergeant & four of the teenage soldiers They struggle to survive campaigns from North Africa in November 1942 to Czechoslovakia in May 1945 along the way they participate in the invasion of Sicily the D-Day invasion free a lunatic asylum & a concentration camp Fuller had served with the Big Red One the US First Infantry Division & the autobiographical content of his film kept it close to his heart This full-length version which is close to the late director&s original cut is one of American cinema&s great war movies Working with 70000 feet of vault materials & Fuller&s shooting script criticfilmmaker Richard Schickel heads a reconstruction that adds over 40 minutes & transforms a truncated but admired war film into an epic masterwork! Actors Lee Marvin Mark Hamill Robert Carradine Bobby Di Cicco Kelly Ward Siegfried Rauch Serge Marquand & Charles Macaulay Director Samuel Fuller Certificate 15 years & over Year 1980 Number of discs 1 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; German ; Danish ; Finnish ; Norwegian ; Swedish ; Icelandic ; German for the hearing impaired ; English for the hard of hearing Duration 2 hours & 38 minutes (approx)