The big red one - attackdivisionen

The Big Red One

You can smell the smoke of battle and the sweat of men trapped and outnumbered, feel the stomach-knotting fear awaiting an enemy's move, the gag-making horror of liberating a concentration camp and coming eye to eye with real evil.

It has fascinatingly dislocated and bizarre episodes and conveys a vividly realised, almost hallucinatory sense of fighting in a war. It also has some extraordinary dialogue.

The restored Big Red One is able to suggest the scope and duration of the war, the way it's one damned thing after another...

...Fuller's final masterpiece about a WWII rifle company in the First Infantry...

...convey a very real and personal sense of Fuller's own combat experience in World War II.