D-Day 67 Years On
By Mark Hamill on Sam Fuller:
The image of Lee Marvin threatening to shoot Mark Hamill as the latter tries to assemble a bangalore torpedo on Omaha Beach is one of my most intense early memories of cinema. I don’t remember exactly when I first saw Big Red One, but I’m pretty sure it was before I saw Return of the Jedi. I do genuinely admire Spielberg’s technical achievement with Saving Private Ryan, but Fuller’s vision of Normandy is the one that sticks with me.