Rating: NR
Genre:
War
Release Date: 05/03/2005
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DDS2.0
Run Time: 150 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, War Violence
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Director
Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by
Lukas Heller and
Nunnally Johnson and fashioned
The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s--and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history.
Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, assigned to coordinate a suicide mission on a French chateau held by top Nazi officers. Since no "normal" GI can be expected to volunteer for this mission, Reisman is compelled to draw his personnel from a group of military prisoners serving life sentences. This "dirty dozen" includes a sex pervert (
Telly Savalas), a psycho (
John Cassavetes), a retarded killer (
Donald Sutherland), and the equally malevolent
Charles Bronson,
Trini Lopez,
Jim Brown, and
Clint Walker. On the dim promise of receiving pardons if they survive, the criminals undergo a brutal training program, then are marched behind enemy lines dressed as Nazi soldiers, the better to overtake the chateau and kill everyone in it--including the innocent wives and mistresses of the German officers.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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A Wartime Adventure Classic.
Robert Aldrich directed this big money-making wartime adventure of the '60s. Academy Award winner, Lee Marvin plays a renegade U.S. Army officer assigned to train 12 G.I. convicts for a dangerous behind-the-lines mission in Occupied France. The unit consists of Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, John Cassavetes, Trini Lopez, Jim Brown, Donald Sutherland, and Clint Walker. Also starring are Ernest Borgnine, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Ryan, George Kennedy, Ralph Meeker, and Robert Webber.
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