Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
- 7.6
- 1967
- Released
- 2h 29m
Lee Marvin
Maj. John Reisman
Ernest Borgnine
Maj. Gen. Worden
Charles Bronson
Joseph Wladislaw
Jim Brown
Robert Jefferson
Richard Jaeckel
Sergeant Bowren
George Kennedy
Major Max Armbruster
Trini López
Pedro Jiminez
Ralph Meeker
Captain Stuart Kinder
Robert Ryan
Col. Everett Dasher Breed
Telly Savalas
Archer Maggott
Donald Sutherland
Vernon Pinkley
Clint Walker
Samson Posey
Robert Webber
General Denton
Tom Busby
Milo Vladek
Ben Carruthers
Glenn Gilpin
Robert Phillips
Cpl. Morgan - MP Guard
Colin Maitland
Seth Sawyer
Al Mancini
Tassos Bravos
George Roubicek
Pvt. Arthur James GardnerThick Wilson
Gen. Worden's Aide
Dora Reisser
German Officer's GirlMichael Anthony
German Officer in Staff Car (uncredited)Leo Britt
German General in Staff Car (uncredited)
Alan Chuntz
French Servant (uncredited)
Gary Files
Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Judith Furse
Drunken General's Wife (uncredited)Hal Galili
MP Master Sergeant / Hangman (uncredited)Romo Gorrara
Airborne Soldier (uncredited)
Willoughby Gray
German Officer (uncredited)
Gerard Heinz
Card-Playing German Officer (uncredited)
John G. Heller
2nd German Sentry at Chateau (uncredited)George Hilsdon
Medical Officer at Hanging (uncredited)
John Hollis
German Porter at Chateau (uncredited)
Alf Joint
German Sentry Wanting Light (uncredited)Juba Kennerley
German Officer (uncredited)
Hildegard Knef
(uncredited)
Ann Lancaster
Prostitute (uncredited)
Richard Marner
German Sentry at Chateau (uncredited)
Dick Miller
MP at Hanging (uncredited)
Lionel Murton
MP Lt. Col. in charge at hanging (uncredited)
Suzanne Owens-Duval
Prostitute (uncredited)
Mike Reid
Sergeant at War Games HQ (uncredited)Terry Richards
Staff Sergeant MacIntosh Blake (uncredited)
Frederick Schiller
Drunken German General (uncredited)Richard Shaw
German Officer Who Seals the Bunker (uncredited)
Warren Stanhope
German Officer (uncredited)
Hedger Wallace
German Officer (uncredited)Theodore Wilhelm
German Officer (uncredited)Burnell Tucker
Army Doctor (uncredited)
Vicki Woolf
Prostitute (uncredited)
Michael Segal
Airborne Band Conductor (uncredited)Jack Carter
Military Policman (uncredited)
Released
en
$5,400,000.00
$45,300,000.00
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- #based on novel or book
- #nazi
- #secret mission
- #world war ii
- #castle
- #hand grenade
- #training
- #us army
- #fistfight
- #shootout
- #suicide mission
- #soldier
- #explosion
- #commando
- #behind enemy lines
- #military police
- #metrocolor
Reviews
Lee Marvin is charged with a mission to drum a dozen criminals and reprobates into some sort of cohesive military unit with a view to destroying an heavily guarded chateau that serves as a respite for high ranking Nazi officers. The challenge looks impossible as the band are assembled - a bigger crowd of cowards, thugs and zealots you would never hope to see; but with the assistance of his stoic s
One of the most quintessential macho movies of all time. The Dirty Dozen is directed by Robert Aldrich and adapted for the screen by Nunnally Johnson & Lukas Heller from the novel by E. M. Nathanson. It stars Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Ryan and Jim Brown. 1944, just prior to D-Day . Major Reisma
I loved this. Right up there with my favourite Aldrich films (though maybe 'Kiss Me Deadly' is still my number one), and of the greatest performances of both Lee Marvin and John Cassavetes (who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at both the Golden Globes and Oscars for his work here). This hearkened back to the heady times when if you got a great cast and director together, you were virtua