The Dirty Dozen

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In Theaters: June 15, 1967

2h 29m | Action, Adventure, Drama


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.

Producer(s): Kenneth Hyman
Cast: Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Donald Sutherland, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Jaeckel, Telly Savalas, Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Robert Phillips, Robert Webber, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, George Kennedy, Ben Carruthers, Trini Lopez, Clint Walker, Tom Busby, Stuart Cooper, Colin Maitland, Al Mancini, George Roubicek, Thick Wilson, Dora Reisser
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