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The Dirty Dozen

  • 19671967
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 2h 30m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
73K
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POPULARITY
913
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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
73K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
913
208
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    • Director
      • Robert Aldrich
    • Writers
      • Nunnally Johnson(screen play by)
      • Lukas Heller(screen play by)
      • E.M. Nathanson(from the novel by)
    • Stars
      • Lee Marvin
      • Ernest Borgnine
      • Charles Bronson
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Robert Aldrich
    • Writers
      • 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
    • 211User reviews
    • 96Critic reviews
    • 73Metascore
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 4 wins & 9 nominations total

    Videos1

    Official Trailer
    Trailer 3:36
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    Photos149

    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)
    The Dirty Dozen (1967)
    Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen (1967)

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    Lee Marvin
    Lee Marvin
    • Major Reisman
    Ernest Borgnine
    Ernest Borgnine
    • General Worden
    Charles Bronson
    Charles Bronson
    • Joseph Wladislaw
    John Cassavetes
    John Cassavetes
    • Victor Franko
    Jim Brown
    Jim Brown
    • Robert 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 Maggott
    Donald Sutherland
    Donald Sutherland
    • Vernon Pinkley
    Clint Walker
    Clint Walker
    • Samson Posey
    Robert Webber
    Robert Webber
    • General Denton
    Tom Busby
    Tom Busby
    • Milo Vladek
    Ben Carruthers
    Ben Carruthers
    • Glenn Gilpin
    Stuart Cooper
    Stuart Cooper
    • Roscoe Lever
    Robert Phillips
    Robert Phillips
    • Corporal Morgan
    • Director
      • Robert Aldrich
    • Writers
      • Nunnally Johnson(screen play by)
      • Lukas Heller(screen play by)
      • E.M. Nathanson(from the novel by)
    • All cast & crew
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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 reviews211

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    Top review
    7/10
    A good old fashioned war film with no hidden agenda.
    A generally entertaining war film with no real political axe to grind or patriotic flagwaving getting in the way. Its very dangerous trying to humourise war in the movies, because that would be offensive to all those that had served & died in real life. Kelly's Heroes and 1941 probably went a little too far, pretending that war is really fun & cool when you've got people like Clint Eastwood in charge. But then you have other war films that are black in its humour but manage to keep into focus the cruelty & horrors of war at the same time - M*A*S*H and Catch 22 are the best examples. With Dirty Dozen we have something of a go-between; the humour amongst the characters is light & welcoming but never falls into farce or bad-taste; and Aldrich quickly pulls us back into the fold with some tight scripted scenes of drama & mass murder (throwing petrol & grenades into that German bunker to name but one. I often wonder about that scene, and whether it was some kind of metaphor for the gas chambers & concentration camps in Belsen) But unlike MASH & Catch 22, Aldrich resists the temptation to openly politicise the effects of war, after all this film was made in '67 near the height of the Vietnam war/protests. Instead he takes a straight line course of action and lets us be moved & entertained by the convicted GIs doing their duty. Marvin is excellent as the hardnosed but disobediant Major. He plays the anti-hero far better than Eastwood in Kelly's Heroes. Marvin just looks the type who'd give the top brass as well the Germans a real hard time. But special mention must go to Cassavettes as Viktor Franko, the trouble-maker's trouble-maker. His character is so refreshing & wild amongst a relatively mild cast of supporting extras, with the exception of Savalas. Franko is the Joker of the pack but you soon feel an attachment for him in spite of his crimes. Sutherland & Bronson, don't really add much. The former plays a slightly naive man who hasn't really grown up and Bronson just smirks & mumbles a lot. The only other character worthy of a mention is the truly terrifying Savalas, who is a Christian through & through, yet hates all women as much as the Germans; and has a most spine chilling laugh! Difficult to believe this man later became Kojak! The film is a tad overlong; the first & last 40 minutes hold the interest but the middle section (the War Games scene), is far too long and generally detracts. All the same, DD is a very good movie, especially for those who don't want to be politically moralised too. ***/*****
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    • Release date
      • October 22, 1967 (United Kingdom)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
      • French
      • Spanish
      • Latin
    • Also known as
      • Dvanajst žigosanih
    • Filming locations
      • Ashridge Management College, Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
      • MKH
      • Seven Arts Productions
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    • Budget
      • $5,400,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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