
The Big Red One
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- Year:
- 1980
- 113 min
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- Permission to enter?
- Come.
Where's the rest of
the company, captain?
Where do you think?
Moved out with the battalion.
I've been waiting here for you.
- You took your time getting back.
- I got lost in the smoke.
What happened to your gun?
Have you ever seen a
shell-shocked horse?
He stomped all over me and got my
rifle, knocked it to smithereens.
Well, I suppose horses have as much right
to go crazy in this war as men have.
Oh.
What do you think?
What the hell is it?
It's a "one." First
Infantry Division.
The Red One. You think General
Pershing will like it?
- Oh, sure.
- Got the idea from a cap of a Hun I killed.
- When?
- Oh, about an hour ago.
Did he yell out anything?
Well, the same old kaiser stuff, you
know, "The war is over," all that junk.
- Finish it.
- Sir?
Finish it.
The armistice was signed
at 11:
00 this morning.The war's been over for four hours.
Well, you didn't know it was over.
He did.
that piece of red cloth...
from the dead Hun's hat had
become famous all over the world.
It was the insignia of the
1st Infantry Division.
The Fighting First,
the Big Red One.
Twenty-four years later, the Big Red
One was fighting the Krauts again.
It was World War II this time.
We were invading North Africa.
Hey, Griff.
Great! Thanks, sergeant.
We were his rifle squad.
First Squad, 1st Platoon,
I Company, 16th Infantry.
He called us his wet-noses.
Griff, he was a hell
of a sharpshooter.
Johnson was a pig farmer
with hemorrhoids.
Vinci was a street kid who played hot jazz
on the saxophone, and that's me, Zab.
I thought I was the
Hemingway of the Bronx.
You really a book writer?
- Yeah.
- What book did you write?
The Dark Deadline.
- Never read it.
It's an unpublished mystery novel.
I left it with my mother.
Why's a book writer a rifleman?
To come out with a war novel,
meathead. Why else, huh?
What about you, Griff?
You gonna be a cartoonist...
- ...for a big newspaper or something?
- Mm-hm.
Say, Griff. You do
everything left-handed?
Everything but shoot.
And play with my pecker.
"Watch out, Vichy.
Here comes the Big Red One."
Vichy?
some kind of soda pop.
No. Vichy's the French,
fighting on Hitler's side.
Yeah, that's why we're wearing these
so they don't shoot Americans, huh?
they know we're coming.
But if they start a fight,
we'll have to kill them.
We were in this war to fight
Germans, not Frenchmen.
We were kind of hoping they
were feeling the same way.
Put your rubbers on and
keep the salt water out.
Thanks, Griff.
I'll bet the guy that
invented these...
- ...never figured they'd be used on a rifle.
- I never could screw with them.
- How about you, Johnson?
- Not me.
Over on the Algerian beach, French
soldiers were reading our leaflets...
and also wondering if
they were gonna fight.
We are no good. You,
me, all of us here.
Defending this miserable Algerian beach
for Marshal Ptain and Adolf Hitler.
I can't kill an American.
There were four things you
could hear on the boat:
The waves, the engines...
an occasional muffled prayer...
and the sound of 50 guys all
heaving their guts out.
French troops, don't shoot.
We are Americans.
Don't shoot. We come to fight Hitler,
not to fight with you. Don't shoot.
Hold your fire!
- Yes, colonel.
- Open fire.
Not on Americans.
Medic! Medic!
Nail him, Griff!
How the hell could you miss him?
Hell, he was close enough
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