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Original title: Dirty Dozen, The
DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 3, 2000
• R2: 31 May 2004
Running Time
2 hours, 25 minutes
Country UK, USA
Production Companies
MKH, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Seven Arts Productions
Studio MGM
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Other Titles
• The Dirty Dozen (1967)
• Das Dreckige Dutzend (1967)
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Genre: Action, War, Drama, Comedy, World War II, Military, Psychos, Suspense, Cult Classic
Tagline: Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!
Plot: An all-star cast energizes Robert Aldrich's classic World War II action drama about a group of 12 American military prisoners assembled by tacticians and ordered to perform a suicide mission: infiltrate a well-guarded château and kill the Nazi officials vacationing there. The incarcerated soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, jump at the chance to redeem themselves. Major Reisman (Lee Marvin), the noncriminal in charge of the group, whips the men into a crack unit, uses them to best the troops of his by-the-book superior officer, Colonel Breed (Robert Ryan), in war games, then leads the steely antiheroes on their perilous assault.The film is studded with standout performances, including Telly Savalas as a religious psychopath with a febrile animosity toward Germans and John Cassavetes in an Oscar-nominated portrayal as an insubordinate, poison-tongued hothead. Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson, and football legend Jim Brown further round out the impressive collection of talent. Aldrich, who by the time of THE DIRTY DOZEN had been fathoming the darker side of life onscreen for more than a decade (KISS ME DEADLY, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?), scored a huge hit with this rousing thriller laced with a stinging
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Robert Aldrich
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| Nunnally Johnson
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Lee Marvin
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