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The Dirty Dozen

  • 19671967
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 2h 30m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
75K
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The Dirty Dozen (1967)
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During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
75K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
3,631
904
    • Robert Aldrich
    • Nunnally Johnson(screen play by)
    • Lukas Heller(screen play by)
    • E.M. Nathanson(from the novel by)
  • Stars
    • Lee Marvin
    • Ernest Borgnine
    • Charles Bronson
    • Robert Aldrich
    • Nunnally Johnson(screen play by)
    • Lukas Heller(screen play by)
    • E.M. Nathanson(from the novel by)
  • Stars
    • Lee Marvin
    • Ernest Borgnine
    • Charles Bronson
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 217User reviews
    • 99Critic reviews
    • 73Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar

    Videos1

    Official Trailer
    Trailer 3:36
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    Photos150

    Muhammad Ali and Jim Brown in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
    John Cassavetes and Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
    Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
    John Cassavetes and Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
    Charles Bronson and Robert Aldrich in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
    Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
    Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Richard Jaeckel, Lee Marvin, and Robert Webber in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
    Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
    Charles Bronson and Robert Ryan in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
    Jim Brown in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
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    Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen (1967)

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    Lee Marvin
    Lee Marvin
    • Major John Reisman
    Ernest Borgnine
    Ernest Borgnine
    • General Worden
    Charles Bronson
    Charles Bronson
    • Joseph T. Wladislaw
    John Cassavetes
    John Cassavetes
    • Victor R. Franko
    Jim Brown
    Jim Brown
    • Robert T. Jefferson
    Richard Jaeckel
    Richard Jaeckel
    • Sergeant Bowren
    George Kennedy
    George Kennedy
    • Major Max Armbruster
    Trini López
    Trini López
    • Pedro Jiminez
    • (as Trini Lopez)
    Ralph Meeker
    Ralph Meeker
    • Captain Stuart Kinder
    Robert Ryan
    Robert Ryan
    • Col. Everett Dasher Breed
    Telly Savalas
    Telly Savalas
    • Archer J. Maggott
    Donald Sutherland
    Donald Sutherland
    • Vernon L. Pinkley
    Clint Walker
    Clint Walker
    • Samson Posey
    Robert Webber
    Robert Webber
    • General Denton
    Tom Busby
    Tom Busby
    • Milo Vladek
    Ben Carruthers
    Ben Carruthers
    • Glenn S. Gilpin
    Stuart Cooper
    Stuart Cooper
    • Roscoe Lever
    Robert Phillips
    Robert Phillips
    • Corporal Morgan
      • Robert Aldrich
      • Nunnally Johnson(screen play by)
      • Lukas Heller(screen play by)
      • E.M. Nathanson(from the novel by)
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    • Trivia
      Lee Marvin referred to this movie as "crap" and "just a dummy moneymaker", although he enjoyed the film. The movie has nothing to do with war, he stressed, and he was very pleased that he got to do The Big Red One (1980), which mirrored his own wartime experiences. Marvin also said many of the actors in this film were too old to play soldiers.
    • Goofs
      (at around 1h 30 mins) During the "war games" sequence, some of the "Dozen" are shown to exchange their Blue Army armbands for the red ones worn by the opposing forces. But for the next few minutes of the film, they are still wearing their blue ones.
    • Quotes

      Pinkley: [impersonating a General] Where are you from, son?

      Soldier: Madison City, Missouri, sir!

      Pinkley: Never heard of it.

    • Crazy credits
      The opening credits don't occur until 10 minutes into the film. While it is common nowadays for films to have a pre-credits sequence, it was considered innovative in 1967.
    • Alternate versions
      In Germany, in the German-language dubbed version, audiences saw only Jim Brown throwing hand grenades into the airshafts at the chateau. The scenes showing grenades being dumped into, and gasoline being poured into, the airshafts were cut.
    • Connections
      Edited into Hogan's Heroes: Hogan's Double Life (1971)
    • Soundtracks
      The Bramble Bush
      Music by Frank De Vol

      Lyrics by Mack David

    User reviews217

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    7/10
    Box-office hit about a misfit team led by Lee Marvin who carry out a suicide mission behind enemy lines
    A group of conscripted convicts formed by twelve condemned , already destined for death row, are drafted to go on a near-suicide mission and attempt to eliminate a Nazi staff . ¨Dirty Dozen¨ is an entertaining film with Lee Marvin as tough officer along with the ordinary team of renegade soldiers of World War II . Marvin training a group of rebel and misfit soldiers for a dangerous assault on a palace-château. In the hands of hardboiled director Robert Aldrich and a tough-as-leather cast headed by Lee Marvin , as a troublesome U.S. Army Major , that's all the plot that's needed to make one rip-roaring wartime flick. Marvin's mission is two-fold and in violent and cynical style : first turn his prisoners into a fighting unit and then turn them loose on a German fortress located in Britain . His crime-minded characters include John Cassavetes as rebel inmate , Clint Walker as a chronic malcontent, Telly Savalas as a ready-to-blow psycho, Donald Sutherland as a lame-brained convict and many others . The first half of the film allows the colorful cast of character actors to have their fun as they get their tails whipped into shape and develop shaky relationship with their leader. The final part is all action, as the culprit commandos wreck havoc and then run for their lives. Despite the fact that few of the "heroes" survive the bloodbath, the message here isn't that war is hell. Rather, it seems to be: war can be a hell of a good time... if you've got nothing to lose . The relentless assignment is set against strong training, risked adventures and hazardous feats . The dangerous mission includes a numerous group formed by a motley and diverse squadron played by all-star cast .This is a rugged WWII actioner concerning about an experienced officer , Major Reisman , he's assigned by Military staff (Ernest Borgnine who acted in the original and all the sequels, Robert Webber , George Kennedy) to train a dropout group of murderers , criminals and rapists who get a chance to redeem themselves . They are a bunch of dispensable characters with no past and no future . Lee Marvin reprieves a bunch of ¨Death Row¨ inmates , forges them into a two-fisted fighting unit and leads them on a deadly assignment into Nazi territory , but there is a religious crazy in the team .The prisoners are oddballs , rag-tag and undisciplined gang (a large cast formed by John Cassavetes, Clint Walker , Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas , Jim Brown , Charles Bronson, Trini Lopez), under command a sergeant (Richard Jaeckel). The team is hardly trained by the Major Reisman . In this film Marvin and his motley band , the Dirty Dozen, are suppose to destroy a fortress where resides various Nazi officers . Then they are parachuted and arrive in French Bretain and attacking the palace . At the end they must participate in the suicidal mission behind the enemy lines , to wipe the German group by means of a violent assault over a strongly protected castle.

    Lee Marvin as Major Reisman assumes the character of the leader of the Dirty Dozen in this wartime classic movie directed by Robert Aldrich and based on the characters created by T.M. Nathanson , being scripted by Nunnally Johnson and Lukas Heller. This moving film packs frantic thrills, perilous adventures , relentless feats , and buck-loads of explosive action and violence. The noisy action is uniformly well-made, especially deserving of mention the rip-roaring final scenes on the fortress , including some spectacular shootouts and bombing . Apart from the values of team spirit , cudgeled by Lee Marvin into his rebel group , the film is full of feats , suspense , and thrills . Rough Marvin is good as leader of the motley pack together thwart the Nazi schemes, as well as the largely secondary cast with special mention to Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland . Atmospheric and martial musical score by Frank De Vol and appropriate cinematography filmed by Edward Scaife in several locations from Gaddesden, Hertfordshire , England and MGM British studios, Borehamwood . This is is a wartime typical vehicle and into the ¨warlike commando genre¨ , which also belong : Where eagles dare(Brian G. Hutton) and Kelly's heroes(Hutton ), Tobruk (Arthur Hiller), Devil's Brigade (Andrew V McLagen) and many others .

    This exciting , original and Box-Office hit ,¨Dirty dozen¨ was followed by various sequels , a trio of inferior Telefilms (1985 , 87 , 88) as ¨Dirty Dozen II: The next mission ¨ by Andrew V McLagen with Lee Marvin and Richard Jaeckel, Borgnine , Larry Wilcox and Wolf Kahler , ¨Dirty Dozen III : Deadly mission¨ by Lee H Katzin and ¨Dirty Dozen : Fatal mission¨ also by Lee H Katzin and starred by Telly Savalas replacing Lee Marvin; both of them shot at the same time with similar actors and director ; furthermore a TV series.
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      • October 22, 1967 (United Kingdom)
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    • Filming locations
      • Ashridge Management College, Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
      • MKH
      • Seven Arts Productions
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    • 2 hours 30 minutes
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