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The Big Red One, the Glossary

The Big Red One is a 1980 American epic war film written and directed by Samuel Fuller, and starring Lee Marvin alongside an ensemble supporting cast, including Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Siegfried Rauch, Bobby Di Cicco, and Kelly Ward.^[1]

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Films directed by Samuel Fuller
Films produced by Gene Corman
Films set in Czechoslovakia
Films set in Normandy
Films set in the French colonial empire
Operation Overlord films

Adam Greenberg (cinematographer)

Adam Greenberg, A.S.C. (Hebrew: אדם גרינברג) is a retired Israeli-American cinematographer noted for his work in Israel and the United States, including several films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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Allied invasion of Sicily

The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers (Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany).

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Armistice Army

The Armistice Army (Armée de l'Armistice) or Vichy French Army was the armed forces of Vichy France permitted under the terms of the Armistice of 22 June 1940.

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Armistice of 11 November 1918

The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany.

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Bobby Di Cicco

Bobby Di Cicco is an American actor best known for his early roles in the films I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) by Robert Zemeckis, 1941 (1979) by Steven Spielberg, Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One (1980), and the John Carpenter-produced The Philadelphia Experiment (1984).

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Bronze Star Medal

The Bronze Star Medal (BSM) is a United States Armed Forces decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US.

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Dry run (testing)

A dry run (or practice run) is a software testing process used to make sure that a system works correctly and will not result in severe failure.

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Empire (magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Media Group.

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Epic film

Epic films have large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle.

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Feldwebel

(Fw or F) is a non-commissioned officer (NCO) rank in several countries.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Free France

Free France (France libre) was a political entity claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic during World War II.

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Gene Corman

Eugene Harold "Gene" Corman (September 24, 1927 – September 28, 2020) was an American film producer and agent.

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German Army (1935–1945)

The German Army (Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946.

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Heavy tank

A heavy tank is a tank variant produced from World War I to the end of the Cold War.

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Imperial German Army

The Imperial German Army (1871–1919), officially referred to as the German Army (Deutsches Heer), was the unified ground and air force of the German Empire.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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ITC Entertainment

The Incorporated Television Company (ITC), or ITC Entertainment as it was referred to in the United States, was a British company involved in production and distribution of television programmes.

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Jack L. Warner

Jack Leonard Warner (born Jacob Warner; August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978) was a Canadian-American film executive, who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California.

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John Wayne

Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed "the Duke", was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.

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Kelly Ward

Kelly Ward (born November 17, 1956) is an American actor and voice director for television animation.

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Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924August 29, 1987) was an American film and television actor.

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Lorimar Television

Lorimar Productions, Inc., later known as Lorimar Television and Lorimar Distribution, was an American production company that was later a subsidiary of Warner Bros., active from 1969.

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Mark Hamill

Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor.

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Marthe Villalonga

Marthe Villalonga (born 20 March 1932) is a French actress.

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Merrill's Marauders (film)

Merrill's Marauders is a 1962 Technicolor war film, photographed in CinemaScope, and directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller. The Big Red One and Merrill's Marauders (film) are American World War II films, films directed by Samuel Fuller and World War II films based on actual events.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Morton Tubor

Morton H. Tubor (April 29, 1917 – August 22, 2019) was an American film editor and sound editor.

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Nazi concentration camps

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Novelization

A novelization (or novelisation) is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, stage play, comic book, or video game.

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Omaha Beach

Omaha Beach was one of five beach landing sectors of the amphibious assault component of Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.

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Operation Torch

Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.

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Perry Lang

Perry Lang (born December 24, 1959, Palo Alto, California) is an American director, writer and actor.

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Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich (Петар Богдановић; July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian.

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Purple Heart

The Purple Heart (PH) is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after 5 April 1917, with the U.S. military.

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Richard Schickel

Richard Warren Schickel (February 10, 1933 – February 18, 2017) was an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic.

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Robert Carradine

Robert Reed Carradine (born March 24, 1954) is an American actor.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Samuel Fuller

Samuel Michael "Sam" Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, actor, and World War II veteran known for directing low-budget genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system.

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Siegfried Rauch

Siegfried Rauch (2 April 1932 – 11 March 2018) was a German film and television actor.

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Silver Star

The Silver Star Medal (SSM) is the United States Armed Forces' third-highest military decoration for valor in combat.

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Sokolov, Czech Republic

Sokolov (until 1948 Falknov nad Ohří; Falkenau an der Eger) is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

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Stéphane Audran

Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville; 8 November 1932 – 27 March 2018) was a French film actress.

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Tiger I

The Tiger I was a German heavy tank of World War II that began operational duty in 1942 in Africa and in the Soviet Union, usually in independent heavy tank battalions.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Trench knife

A trench knife is a combat knife designed to kill or incapacitate an enemy at close quarters, such as in a trench or other confined area.

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Turnaround (filmmaking)

Turnaround in filmmaking is the use of outside assistance to resolve problems preventing a film project from completing its development phase and entering the preproduction phase.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Victory in Europe Day

Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May.

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Voice-over

Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique used in radio, television, filmmaking, theatre, and other media in which a descriptive or expository voice that is not part of the narrative (i.e., non-diegetic) accompanies the pictured or on-site presentation of events.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Red_One

Also known as The Big Red One: The Reconstruction.

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The Big Red One, the Glossary

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See also

Films directed by Samuel Fuller

Films produced by Gene Corman

Films set in Czechoslovakia

Films set in Normandy

Films set in the French colonial empire

Operation Overlord films

References