The Big Red One

I picked this up.

I was always waiting for like a deluxe edition of The Big Red One.

I like it.

I have the DVD with the longer version on there, but this one has the longer version in standard, which is a bummer.

But hey, The Big Red One, Sam Fuller movie.

Love that one.

Me, Marvin.

It's had a following that's lasted, persisted for 30 years now at this point.

In terms of other movies I watched, I watched an old Samuel Fuller movie called The Big Red One, which is kind of a classic man on a mission movie.

I

think Winter 2 really likes that movie, I think, too.

After Japan, I'm going to Yugoslavia.

You signed to do The Big Red One?

I sure did.

I read the script and I thought, this is a good movie.

I've heard that it's pretty good.

The script is terrific.

After Yugoslavia, the Big Red One moves to Israel for filming, doesn't it? I'm not sure I'd want to film battle scenes in Israel at the moment.

That's exactly what I was going to say.

I think there are, there are multiple parts of that answer, but the main one, I...

Patton certainly did a better job than Fredendall, who was, uh, relieved of command, and we need to give Patton credit for that, and we need to give him credit for the first victory of, uh, US arms against the Germans at El Guettar, though that was one division against a German division, and Patton was the corps commander, not Terrible Terry Allen of the, the Big Red One, the famous, uh, US division that held them off.

Patton famously in the movie comes in and instills fierce discipline.

Uh, men have to button up their collars and wear a necktie even in battle in the desert.

He'd be dropped basically behind enemy lines.

What he didn't like is that on the third night of the invasion, Patton wanted to reinforce his beachhead at a, a small city called Gela.

The regiment was supposed to be dropped right onto the beachhead that was already held by US forces at that point, by the Big Red One.

Now, Ridgeway said, "I don't want to do this.

The shining blade springs forward, not unlike an erection." Unquote.

The Warren role was initially offered to Bobby Di Cicco, a popular young actor of this era who had been in movies like Nineteen Forty-One and The Big Red One.

When Bobby Di Cicco turned the offer down, dozens of actors aged eighteen to thirty were auditioned, including the pop singer teen idol Leif Garrett.

This was filmed on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica, California.

How awful.

If you remember the movie The Big Red One.

It's so weird that you're bringing that up because that's exactly the movie I was thinking of when we read this.

Yeah.

And so I think this is extremely important.

And so he totally should, you're right, we're right to end it when we ended it last time, because we're totally on a very different topic now.

Oh, by the way, in the ending of The Big Red One, when they shoot the guy and they realize the war is over, then they immediately do everything they can to try to save him.

I remember that, yeah.

It's funny.

While Mark Hamill is doing the big red one with Lee Marvin...

Harrison Ford's doing Apocalypse Now.

Yeah, he would have been awesome, but I don't think he's ready for that kind of role.

Put us all in movies together.

By the way, is there a phone, well, let's say Harrison Ford's not in it, but it's 77.

Do they call Mark Hamill who a couple years later makes The Big Red One.

Yeah.