The Dirty Dozen

Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!
The Dirty Dozen
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 16, 2007
  • Originally Released: 1967
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Academy Awards 1967 - Best Sound Effects Editing: Not Applicable

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User Ratings: 41,318
One could, no doubt, if sufficiently determined, see all this as some deep, dark (in fact, practically subterranean) satire on the military mind. But there's precious little evidence of irony in Robert Aldrich's direction or the script. Full Review
The Spectator
Aug 3, 2015
Lee Marvin heads a very strong, nearly all-male cast in an excellent performance. Full Review
Variety
Mar 26, 2009
A raw and preposterous glorification of a group of criminal soldiers who are trained to kill and who then go about this brutal business with hot, sadistic zeal is advanced in The Dirty Dozen, an astonishingly wanton war film. Full Review
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Robert Aldrich dissects the underlying ideas with just enough craft and thoughtfulness to make the implications of this gritty 1966 war drama unsettling in not entirely constructive ways. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Aug 3, 2015
It must just be taken as another violence-fantasy no better and no worse than a dozen others. Full Review
Esquire Magazine
Feb 10, 2019
Rating: 4/5 -- One of the smash hits of its year, this action-packed war movie is violent and amoral, and fans would say all the better for it. Full Review
Radio Times
Aug 3, 2015
Rating: 3/4 -- Right up to the last scene the movie is amusing, well paced, intelligent. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 24, 2004

Product Description:

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 cynicism perfectly in tune with the increasingly skeptical tenor of the times.

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  • UPC: 012569675247
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