The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985) (TV)

Director:

Andrew V. McLaglen

Writers:

Lukas Heller (characters)
Nunnally Johnson (characters)
(more)

Release Date:

4 February 1985 (USA)

Genre:

Action | War

Tagline:

They're back... and deadlier than ever!

Plot:

Major Reisman is "Volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms...

Plot Keywords:

Mission | Army | General | Nazi | Soldier

Cast

Lee Marvin	...	Maj. John Reisman
Ernest Borgnine	...	Gen. Worden
Ken Wahl	...	Louis Valentine
Larry Wilcox	...	Tommy Wells
Sonny Landham	...	Sam Sixkiller
Richard Jaeckel	...	MP Sgt. Clyde Bowren
Wolf Kahler	...	Gen. Sepp Dietrich
Gavan O'Herlihy	...	Conrad E. Perkins
Ricco Ross	...	Arlen Dregors
Stephen Hattersley	...	Otto Deutsch
Rolf Saxon	...	Robert E. Wright
Jay Benedict	...	Didier Le Clair
Michael John Paliotti	...	Baxley
Paul Herzberg	...	Reynolds
Jeff Harding	...	Sanders
Sam Douglas	...	Anderson
Russell Sommers	...	Gary Rosen
Michael Sheard	...	Adolf Hitler
Bruce Boa	...	Colonel
John Malcolm	...	Field Marshal Meisterlein
William Morgan Sheppard	...	German General (as Morgan Sheppard)
Crispin Denys	...	Schmidt
Denis Holmes	...	Gen. Pierre Fontaine
Alan Barry	...	Gen. Bulldog Bardsley
Don Fellows	...	Gen. Trent Tucker
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Billy Dean	...	Nazi Officer
Charles Bodycomb	...	GI Harley Outrider (uncredited)
Derek Lyons	...	G.I. (uncredited)

Directed by
Andrew V. McLaglen

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Lukas Heller		characters
Nunnally Johnson		characters
Michael Kane
E.M. Nathanson		novel

Produced by
Frederick Muller	....	associate producer
Harry R. Sherman	....	producer

Original Music by
Richard Harvey

Cinematography by
John Stanier		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Alan Strachan

Production Design by
Peter Mullins

Art Direction by
William Alexander		(as Bill Alexander)

Set Decoration by
Robin Tarsnane

Costume Design by
Betsy Heimann

Makeup Department
Stevie Hall	....	hair stylist
Jane Royle	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Bruce A. Pobjoy	....	post-production supervisor
Steven P. Saeta	....	production supervisor
Ted Zachary	....	executive in charge of production

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Peter Bennett Jr.	....	second assistant director
Callum McDougall	....	third assistant director
Michael Zimbrich	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Brian Payne	....	property master
Steve Payne	....	stand-by props

Sound Department
Milan Bor	....	sound re-recording mixer
Don Deacon	....	sound editor
Paul Le Mare	....	production sound mixer

Special Effects by
David Beavis	....	special effects supervisor (as Dave Beavis)

Stunts
Roy Alon	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
John Dimond	....	gaffer
Ian Foster	....	clapper loader: second unit
Larry Park	....	best boy
Peter Versey	....	assistant camera
David Wynn-Jones	....	camera operator
Anthony Stanier	....	camera trainee (uncredited)

Casting Department
Joseph D'Agosta	....	casting: US
Allan Foenander	....	casting: UK

Other crew
Marilyn Clarke	....	script supervisor
Russell Lodge	....	location manager
Gary Nixon	....	assistant accountant
Jennie Raglan	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• MGM/UA Television (as MGM/UA Entertainment Co. Television)

Distributors

• Audio Visual Enterprises (1985) (Greece) (VHS)
• Esselte Video (????) (Finland) (VHS)
• EuroVideo (1988) (West Germany) (VHS)
• Future Film (2007) (Finland) (DVD)
• MGM/UA Television
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1985) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Technicolor  color (as Technicolor®)
• Technovision  cameras (as Technovision®)
• Aces High  airplanes (as Aces High Ltd.)
• Bavaria Atelier  sound recording (as Bavaria Atelier GmbH)
• Angel Recording Studios  music recording (as Angel Recording Studios Ltd.)
• Twickenham Studios  filmed at (as Twickenham Film Studios Ltd.)

Also Known As:

"Dirty Dozen 2" - International (English title) (informal title)
"Dirty Dozen II" - International (English title) (informal title)
"Dirty Dozen: Next Mission" - International (English title) (informal title)
"The Dirty Dozen 2" - International (English title) (informal title)
"The Dirty Dozen II" - International (English title) (informal title)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Norway:15 (video premiere) | Iceland:16 | UK:PG | Singapore:PG | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

England, UK

Company:

MGM/UA Television

Trivia:

This is the only movie sequel that Lee Marvin ever appeared in. His character Major John Reisman did not appear in the next two "Dirty Dozen" TV movie sequels, Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) (TV) and The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988) (TV). His character was replaced by Major Wright played by Telly Savalas. Savalas had appeared in the original The Dirty Dozen (1967) movie as Archer Maggott where his character was killed-off.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Both in the courtroom and in General Worden's office you see a modern American flag with 50 stars, even though that flag first came into production in 1960, with Alaska becoming an American state in 1959 and Hawaii following the year after.

Quotes:

Louis Valentine:What is this, Grand Central Station?
Tommy Wells:Yeah, we missed the train to Chicago.
Robert E. Wright:Where's the girl?
Sanders:Heard you were coming and took off on the train.
Sam Sixkiller:Where's the bar?

Movie Connections:

Edited from The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Colorless, pointless and cartoonish

Nearly twenty years after the original, Major Reisman again played by Lee Marvin gets assigned a new gang of G.I. convicts for another mission. If this had to be made why did it have to be done with the Reisman character. Lee Marvins age clearly showed which hurt the picture. Then to make matters even worse Ernest Borgnine and Richard Jaeckel reprise their roles from the 1967 film. Unlike the original the convicts are colorless, the mission pointless and the end cartoonish. Watch the original and consider the story ended when Charles Bronsons Joseph Wladislaw says at the conclusion `Killing Generals could get to be a habit with me.'