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Director:
André De Toth
Writers:
Melvyn Bragg (screenplay)
Lotte Colin (screenplay)
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Release Date:
1968 (UK) more
Genre:
Adventure | Drama | War more
Tagline:
Forget the medals, throw away the rule book, if you want to survive.... Play Dirty
Plot:
The Dirty Dozen meet the Stiff Upper Lip. A British Petroleum executive (Michael Caine) is assigned... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
A virtually unknown British masterpiece from the 60's. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Michael Caine ... Capt. Douglas
Nigel Davenport ... Capt. Cyril Leech
Nigel Green ... Col. Masters
Harry Andrews ... Brig. Blore
Patrick Jordan ... Maj. Alan Watkins
Daniel Pilon ... Capt. Allwood (Blore's adjutant at Special Forces HQ)
Martin Burland ... Dead Officer
George McKeenan ... Corporal at Quayside
Bridget Espeet ... Ann
Bernard Archard ... Col. Homerton
Aly Ben Ayed ... Sadok
Enrique Ávila ... Kalarides (as Enrique Avila)
Mohsen Ben Abdallah ... Hassan
Mohamed Kouka ... Assine
Takis Emmanuel ... Kostos Manov (as Takis Emmanouel)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
118 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English | Arabic | German
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
UK:15 | UK:AA (original rating) | Singapore:PG | West Germany:16 (f) | USA:PG (certificate #21963) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:M (original rating)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Nigel Davenport was first cast in a key supporting role, but upgraded to the second lead when Richard Harris was fired. more
Quotes:
Capt. Douglas: ...How did the other English officers die?
Capt. Cyril Leech: Unexpectedly.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Harry Saltzman: Showman (2000) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Tornerai more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
A virtually unknown British masterpiece from the 60's., 11 July 2004
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Author: utarg from Uk

A virtually unknown British masterpiece from the 60's.

Its cynical and bleak portrayal of men in war is only matched by its lack of notoriety which is a shame considering how powerful the films message is. Admittedly Caine is a little wooden as the straight laced British Officer, but it is the much less known Nigel Davenport who steals the show as the hard bitten second in command. The films cynicism is the sum of it's ending which is suitably negative but still unsuspected. With all the flag waving war films out there its good to see the odd one which suggests the end never justifies the means.

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