The Dirty Dozen

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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 ...
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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.
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All Movie Guide - Bruce Eder
Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen is remembered today as a fine action-adventure film, along the lines and proportions of The Great Escape and Kelly's Heroes. In its time, it was also a groundbreaking piece of popular cinema. Until its release, Hollywood had struggled with how to portray men in war, especially World War II. Movies such as The Naked and the Dead, Attack, and Between Heaven and Hell had tried to present the reality that not every American soldier, or even most, were bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, flag-waving patriots; but those movies never caught on with the public, and one extreme example, Carl Foreman's The Victors, was a box-office disaster. The Dirty Dozen succeeded at presenting the darker sides of humanity, employed in the service of good. It broke lots of lingering screen taboos, showing its heroes cavorting with prostitutes and killing with very little discrimination, and it generally held all authority in contempt -- pretty strong stuff for a mainstream movie coming out in the midst of the Vietnam War. It did for the war movie what Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch and Sergio Leone's Man-With-No-Name trilogy did for the Western, while retaining just enough roughhousing fun to hang on to more traditional audiences, thus yielding a box-office bonanza for its producers and opening more conservative audience members to further films in this vein.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 5/4/1999
  • UPC: 027616689436
  • Original Release: 1967

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  • Source: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
  • Format: VHS

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Lee Marvin Maj. Reisman
Ernest Borgnine Gen. Worden
Charles Bronson Joseph Wladislaw
Jim Brown Robert Jefferson
John Cassavetes Victor Franko
George Kennedy Maj. Max Armbruster
Richard Jaeckel Sgt. Bowren
Robert Ryan Col. Everett Dasher-Breed
Trini Lopez Pedro Jiminez
Ralph Meeker Capt. Stuart Kinder
Telly Savalas Archer Maggott
Clint Walker Samson Posey
Donald Sutherland Vernon Pinkley
Robert Webber Gen. Denton
Tom Busby Milo Vladek
Ben Carruthers Glenn Gilpin
Stuart Cooper Roscoe Lever
Robert Phillips Corporal Carl Morgan, Corporal Morgan
Colin Maitland Seth Sawyer
Al Mancini Tassos Bravos
Thick Wilson Worden's Aide
Dora Reisser German Officer's Girl
Richard Miller
George Roubicek Pvt. Arthur James Gardner
Technical Credits
Robert Aldrich Director
Bert Batt Asst. Director
Mack David Songwriter
Frank De Vol Score Composer
Ernest Gasser Makeup
Lukas Heller Screenwriter
W.E. Hutchinson Art Director
William Hutchinson Art Director
Kenneth Hyman Producer
Nunnally Johnson Screenwriter
Michael Luciano Editor
Alan McCabe Camera Operator
Cliff John Richardson Special Effects
Edward Scaife Cinematographer
Wally Schneiderman Makeup
Sibylle Siegfreid Songwriter
Tony Spratling Camera Operator
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  • Posted October 1, 2010

    A Classic Movie

    I loved this movie. What a classic. Even my oldest daughter sat down and enjoyed it. They just don't make great movies like this anymore.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Pure perfection

    This is one of my all time favorites. I acknowledge the genius of working and directing a cast of talented individuals. It is to our benefit to have had the opportunity of watching such a wide range of acting. Well done.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Are you a guy?

    You can't be a guy without being a fan of The Dirty Dozen. Lee Marivin, John Cassavetes, et al may be one of the finest drama ensembles ever. If you dicker with the ideas of type and underdeveloped characters, you're missing the point. This film is America - pure and simple. We are the Reismans, Francos and Poseys working for the likes of the Colonel Breens. The story is easy - not so good guys (underdogs) vs. very bad guys with WWII as the backdrop. Just sit back and enjoy.

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