Rating: NR
Genre: War
Release Date: 05/23/2006
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 245 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, War Violence
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video

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

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

Production:
Robert Aldrich - Director
Kenneth Hyman - Producer
Frank De Vol - Composer
Michael Luciano - Editor
Lukas Heller Nunnally Johnson - Screen Writer
W.E. Hutchinson - Art Director
William Hutchinson - Art Director
Alan McCabe - Camera Operator
Tony Spratling - Camera Operator
Edward Scaife - Cinematographer
Bert Batt - First Assistant Director
Ernest Gasser - Makeup
Wally Schneiderman - Makeup
Mack David - Songwriter
Sibylle Siegfreid - Songwriter
Cliff John Richardson - Special Effects
E.M. Nathanson - Book Author

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