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The Dirty Dozen
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
1967 · Directed by Robert Aldrich · 149 min · Action · Adventure · War · 34 frames
Tagline
Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!
Crew
- Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson, Lukas Heller
- Cinematography: Edward Scaife
- Edited by: Michael Luciano
- Music: Frank De Vol
- Produced by: Kenneth Hyman
Cast
- Lee Marvin as Maj. John Reisman
- Ernest Borgnine as Maj. Gen. Worden
- Charles Bronson as Joseph Wladislaw
- Jim Brown as Robert Jefferson
- John Cassavetes as Victor Franko
- Richard Jaeckel as Sergeant Bowren
- George Kennedy as Major Max Armbruster
- Trini López as Pedro Jiminez
- Ralph Meeker as Captain Stuart Kinder
- Robert Ryan as Col. Everett Dasher Breed
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: Latin, English, German, French, Spanish
- Studios: Seven Arts Pictures, MKH, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Budget: $5,400,000
- Box office: $45,300,000
- Themes: mission, based on novel or book, nazi, secret mission, world war ii, castle, hand grenade, training, us army, fistfight
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