Dirty Dozen

Dirty Dozen

A group of conscripted convicts, most already destined for death row, are drafted to go on a near-suicide mission with the understanding that if the Nazis don't kill them, the U.S. Army won't, either. In the hands of hardboiled director Robert Aldrich and a tough-as-leather cast headed by Lee Marvin (as a troublesome U.S. Army major), that's all the plot that's needed to make one rip-roaring World War II action flick. Marvin's mission is two-fold: first turn his dozen prisoners into a fighting unit and then turn them loose on a French chateau occupied by partying German officers. His crime-minded charges include John Cassavetes as a chronic malcontent, Telly Savalas as a ready-to-blow psycho, Donald Sutherland as a lame-brained lummox, and Charles Bronson and then-just-retired NFL superstar Jim Brown as a couple of clutch performers. The first half of the film allows the colorful cast of character actors to have their fun as they get their tails whipped into shape and develop shaky bonds with their commander. The second part is all action, as the culprit commandos wreck havoc and then run for their lives. Despite the fact that few of the "heroes" survive the bloodbath, the message here isn't that war is hell. Rather, it seems to be: war can be a hell of a good time... if you've got nothing to lose. --Steven Stolder

Genre: Action, Adventure, War
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Year:
1967
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Samson Posey:
I reckon the folks'd be a sight happier if I died like a soldier. Can't say I would.

Joseph T. Wladislaw:
Killin' generals could get to be a habit with me.

Major John Reisman:
You've seen a general inspecting troops before haven't you? Just walk slow, act dumb and look stupid!

Victor R. Franko:
Hey! What's the matter with you? You think I'm going to die? Ha! If you think that then you don't know Victor Franko.

Major John Reisman:
How come you speak German?

Joseph T. Wladislaw:
My old man came from Silesia. He didn't speak German, he didn't dig coal. p He didn't dig coal, he didn't eat.

Major John Reisman:
So what does that give you?

Capt. Stuart Kinder:
Doesn't give me anything. But along with these other results, it gives YOU just about the most twisted, anti-social bunch of psychopathic deformities I have ever run into! And the worst, the most dangerous of the bunch, is Maggott. You've got one religious maniac, one malignant dwarf, two near-idiots... and the rest I don't even wanna think about!

Major John Reisman:
Well, I can't think of a better way to fight a war.

Major John Reisman:
Boy, do I love that Franko.

Major John Reisman:
Which one of you guys wants to be a general?

Major John Reisman:
Pinkley?

Pinkley:
What kind of general, sir?

Major John Reisman:
Just a plain, ordinary, every day, home-lovin' American general.

Pinkley:
I'd rather be a civilian, sir.

Major John Reisman:
I never went in for embroidery, just results

Pinkley:
"Always with the negative waves, man."

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