The Big Red One - Restored Scenes

Restored Scenes

• Extended scene after the beach landing in North Africa when the squad is resting and eating, more quirky scene involving an Arab boy.
• The Sarge and the 'Horsemen' are trapped in an ancient Roman colosseum, and are relieved by French Spahi Moroccan cavalry. The scene ends with the Moroccan Goums cutting off the ears of dead Germans.
• Extended Sicilian landings where the squad engages a machine-gun nest.
• Omaha Beach, D-Day, extended scene in which the whole infantry company, including Zab, encountering casualties (this was how director Fuller earned his Silver Star on D-Day).
• Schroeder receives a massage from a French woman whose husband has been killed by German soldiers.
• Aftermath of the attack on the lunatic asylum, where Griff has sex with a Walloon.
• Belgian innkeeper uncovers a German infiltrator as the squad eats a meal.
• Scene showing a general giving an interview to a war correspondent (played by Sam Fuller).
• Tree-shelling scene extended to include the German artillery piece being destroyed by a Bazooka.
• Schroeder booby-trapping a castle, then killing the Frau of the house after he finds that she hates Hitler.
• The squad approaches a derelict castle, losing one man to a sniper. They capture the sniper, only to discover him to be an adolescent boy.
• The squad encounters a protest march of old Germans who refuse to let the squad pass until the Sarge threatens to shoot their leader.
• Schroeder removing his equipment and thus ending his responsibility to fight.