D-Day Film Festival on @British & Commonwealth Forces The Big Red One is a 1980 epic war film written and directed by Samuel Fuller starring Lee Marvin alongside an ensemble supporting cast including Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Siegfried Rauch, Bobby Di Cicco, and Kelly Ward. Based on Fuller's own experiences, it was produced independently on a lower budget It was heavily cut on its original release, but a restored version, The Big Red One has now been released: The Reconstruction, premièred