and that is both for and lee marvin. and that is full of europe. and i just wondered whether to have a 55-year-old buck sergeant. and lee marvin has the wonderful ravaged face. and i am curious to what the connection was. and how they made a decision and view someone so much older. >> that is a great question and i don't have a definitive answer to that. i don't know precisely why fuller, i know he really wanted marvin. and i think marvin if i remember correctly was hesitant because of his age to play that role. and fuller really loved to work with veteran and working with people whom he didn't have to that idea of awe ten tisty. that would have appealed to him. it could have been different casting this in the 1950s, in the 1960s. by the time you get to the late 1970s, if you're looking for combat veterans, they are getting older. >> in the back to your left. >> as someone who watched a lot of world war iri, movies, i'm always intrigued by the arc has changed. in the '50s, there's not a lot, in my opinion, except for a movie named "attack." that's

lee marvin drives it, playing an insubordinate officer on a top secret mission to assassinate a group generals. >> it's july of 2014, and the littlefield family is nervous. they've agreed to donate their strange inheritance -- the largest private collection of armored vehicles in the world -- for a new museum to be built by the collings foundation, in massachusetts. the foundation cannot house all 240 tanks in the museum, just the cream of the crop. >> we had a methodology going into this of what vehicles we wanted to present, and that boiled down to 85 tanks. >> they're jacques littlefield's greatest treasures. they include the personnel carrier used in "the dirty dozen" and the german panzer v panther tank that jacques littlefield finished restoring right before he died. littlefield's kids wish collings didn't have to split up their dad's collection but know some must be sacrificed to fund a permanent home for the rest. and museums cost a lot of money. so, along with bill boller, they gear up for a barn-burner of an auction on their ranch outside san francisco. it's not easy to put

where is lee marvin? that as you walk to the cemetery, you can see people that impacted our nation and that is where our list of about 200 came from. now we have to know where they are but how to get there in the middle of the night and something about those individuals. when we take our test, they take our book from us. they make us stand at attention in our uniform and do our uniform inspection and they say, recite your knowledge, go. from the very first word to the last word, we have to recite it for bait him. it takes about an hour. when we are done with that, as if that was not difficult enough, they had us a piece of paper and with 100 questions on it, satan outright it out. don't miss a pronunciation or,, because each one is points against you. you have to get 95% to pass the written test. it takes about seven to 12 months to earn the tomb guard identification badge. this is the third least awarded that in the army. it used to be the second least until the horsemanship was installed. it takes a lot

this is lee marvin as the sergeant firing around him to try to get him out of his stunned state. there is a series of extreme close-ups between the two of them. at one point it seems like he has been taken out by incoming enemy fire but he manages to recover and puts the piece in place that allows them to blow the hole and the wire and gives the scene a sense of closure. this scene, like most everything in the big red one, has some aspects of personal elements. if you remember the letter from major lawton, fuller landed with an initial assault late and began looking about the beach in an effort to aid wounded and bring about some control. he also commended him for notifying regimental command of the eventual breach that was finally blown in the wire, which meant fuller in the movie "along 100 yards of open beach under constant heavy fire by the enemy and then voluntarily returned to communicate the successful delivery of the message that a section of the wire is open." in the reconstruction version, there is a scene where zab, fuller's stand-in played by robert carey, performs th

i just wondered about having a 55-year-old buck sergeant, i mean, lee marvin of course has that wonder of ravaged face and i think really underrecognized, but i was curious as to what the connection is between marvin and fuller and how fuller made a decision to use someone so much older than his sergeants would have been. thank you. >> that's a great question and i don't really have a definitive answer to that. i don't know -- i don't know precisely why fuller -- i know he really wanted marvin, he really had to talk him into that role and i think marvin if i remember correctly was a little hesitant because of his age to play that role. but, you know, fuller really loved working with veterans and he loved working with people who he didn't have to basically send through basic training in order to understand what it was like. i mean, that idea of authenticity. so i think that that certainly would have appealed to him and obviously as time went on it would have been very different casting this in the 1950s, in the 1960s. by the time you get to the late 1970s if you are looking for combat v