Director: Robert Aldrich
Genres: War
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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, Rovi

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