Studio: Warner Home Video
Genre: War
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Robert Aldrich
Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: 5/23/2006
Cast: Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Lee Marvin, Telly Savalas
Published ID: 176
UPC: 027616656322, 012569507920, 663286201112, 012569675247, 012569679214, 012569792050, 012569793958,

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Plot: 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