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4.8/10   331 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Nunnally Johnson (characters in screenplay) and
Lukas Heller (characters in screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
14 February 1988 (USA) more
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Plot:
A team of renegade soldiers of World War II try to avoid the constitution of the IV Reich. | add synopsis
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Embarrassing dross of the highest order more (5 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Telly Savalas ... Maj. Wright

Ernest Borgnine ... Gen. Worden
Hunt Block ... Joe Stern
Matthew Burton ... Gen. Richter
Jeff Conaway ... Sgt. Holt
Alex Cord ... Dravko Demchuk

Erik Estrada ... Carmine D'Agostino

Ernie Hudson ... Joe Hamilton

James Carroll Jordan ... Lonnie Wilson
Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini ... Tim Ricketts (as Ray Mancini)
John Matuszak ... Fred Collins
Natalia Nogulich

Heather Thomas ... Lt. Carol Campbell

Anthony Valentine

Richard Yniguez (as Richard Yñiguez)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dirty Dozen 4 (International: English title) (informal title)
Dirty Dozen IV (International: English title) (informal title)
The Dirty Dozen 4 (International: English title) (informal title)
The Dirty Dozen IV (International: English title) (informal title)
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Runtime:
Spain:100 min | USA:100 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This is the only "Dirty Dozen" movie (i.e. of the original The Dirty Dozen (1967) movie and its three television tele-movie sequels) that has a woman as a member of the Dirty Dozen. She is Lt. Carol Campbell and is played by Heather Thomas. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Major Wright is wearing silver oak leafs which is the rank of Lt. Col. more
Movie Connections:
Features Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
In the Mood more

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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Embarrassing dross of the highest order, 2 April 2008
1/10
Author: steverr63 from Germany

It really was that bad. On a par with the (mercifully!) short-lived "Dirty Dozen" TV series that starred Ben Murphy and was made at around the same time (also on the cheap in Yugoslavia).

I was embarrassed for the cast members of this film - and for Telly Savalas in particular. He was waaaaaay too old and fat for the role (pushing 70 when he made this garbage), and the reviewer who draws parallels with Telly the Greek in this and John Wayne in "The Green Berets" pretty much sums it up.

Other reviewers have pointed out some of the many laughable howlers that this crime against celluloid contains, so I won't repeat them here. But I will add that I'm amazed that no-one's yet mentioned the ridiculously tiny-looking helmet that Savalas wears on his big, bloated head.

I'm also astonished that this trainwreck of a film has a rating as high as 4.7 here at IMDb.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a "1" right across the board. If you want a good example of why flogging a franchise to death really is a bad idea (especially 20-plus years after the original) - look no further than "The Dirty Dozen - The Fatal Mission".

Awful - avoid!!!!

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