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| | Combustible Celluloid film review - The Big Red One (1980), Samuel Fuller, Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, dvd review |
 | | As it stands now, The Big Red One is one of many masterpieces, among his many cheaper B-movies that are just as good, The Steel Helmet, Pickup on South Street, Shock Corridor, and The Naked Kiss. |
 | | The Big Red One is Marvin's platoon, which contains four soldiers who seem to survive every kind of horror, no matter how bizarre, and an endless series of young recruits who die before anyone can learn their names. |
 | | Next is deleted and alternate scenes, with commentary, then a twelve-minute newsreel about the original "big red 1," a 30-minute promo reel for the 1980 release, stills gallery, three trailers (two for the 1980 release and one for the 2004 release) and two radio spots from 1980. |
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