Reportedly Samuel Fuller wanted Martin Scorsese for the role of Pvt. Vinci, 1st Squad, but Scorsese moved on to do Raging Bull (1980).
Griff:
I can't murder anybody.
The Sergeant:
We don't murder; we kill.
Griff:
It's the same thing.
The Sergeant:
The hell it is, Griff. You don't murder animals; you kill 'em.
The position of Griff's hands on his rifle change while he waits in line.
In 2004, film critic Richard Schickel restored this film to a new director's cut length of approximately 160 minutes. Using Samuel Fuller's production notes and the full-length, unexpurgated script, Schickel restored the footage that was forced to be cut by the studio upon its original 1980 release (which runs 116 minutes). The restored version's DVD release date is 3 May 2005. This longer, epic-length version is closer to Fuller's original vision for the film.
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