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Synopsis
Director Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by Lukas Heller and Nunnally Johnson and fashioned The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s--and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, assigned to coordinate a suicide mission on a French chateau held by top Nazi officers. Since no "normal" GI can be expected to volunteer for this mission, Reisman is compelled to draw his personnel from a group of military prisoners serving life sentences. This "dirty dozen" includes a sex pervert (Telly Savalas), a psycho (John Cassavetes), a retarded killer (Donald Sutherland), and the equally malevolent Charles Bronson, Trini Lopez, Jim Brown, and Clint Walker. On the dim promise of receiving pardons if they survive, the criminals undergo a brutal training program, then are marched behind enemy lines dressed as Nazi soldiers, the better to overtake the chateau and kill everyone in it--including the innocent wives and mistresses of the German officers. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Ernest Borgnine Gen. Worden
Charles Bronson Joseph Wladislaw
Ben Carruthers Glenn Gilpin
Richard Jaeckel Sgt. Bowren
George Kennedy Maj. Max Armbruster
Trini Lopez Pedro Jiminez
Al Mancini Tassos Bravos
Lee Marvin Maj. Reisman
Ralph Meeker Capt. Stuart Kinder
Robert Phillips Corporal Carl Morgan
Donald Sutherland Vernon Pinkley
Clint Walker Samson Posey
Robert Webber Gen. Denton
Thick Wilson Worden's Aide
Jim Brown Robert Jefferson
John Cassavetes Victor Franko
Stuart Cooper Roscoe Lever
Telly Savalas Archer Maggott
Robert Ryan Col. Everett Dasher-Breed
Tom Busby Milo Vladek
Colin Maitland Seth Sawyer
Dora Reisser German Officer's Girl

Production Crew

W.E. Hutchinson Art Director
William Hutchinson Art Director
E.M. Nathanson Book Author
Alan McCabe Camera Operator
Tony Spratling Camera Operator
Edward Scaife Cinematographer
Frank De Vol Composer (Music Score)
Robert Aldrich Director
Michael Luciano Editor
Bert Batt First Assistant Director
Ernest Gasser Makeup
Wally Schneiderman Makeup
Kenneth Hyman Producer
Lukas Heller Screenwriter
Nunnally Johnson Screenwriter
Mack David Songwriter
Sibylle Siegfreid Songwriter
Cliff John Richardson Special Effects
Year: 1967
Runtime: 149
Country: UK
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature

Genre
War

Color type
Metrocolor

Produced by
MGM

Release
by MGM