Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Donald Sutherland, Dick Miller, John Hollis, Burnell Tucker, Terry Richards, Rocky Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, Mike Reid, Romo Gorrara, George Kennedy, Aileen Lewis, Hal Galili, Charles Bronson, Ralph Meeker, Jim Brown, Alf Joint, Willoughby Gray, George Hilsdon, George Roubicek, Telly Savalas, Richard Marner, Richard Shaw, Robert Ryan, Robert Webber, Clint Walker, Richard Jaeckel, Lee Marvin, Lionel Murton, Judith Furse, Al Mancini, Thick Wilson, John G. Heller, John Cassavetes, Trini López, Tom Busby, Ben Carruthers, Stuart Cooper, Robert Phillips, Colin Maitland, Michael Anthony, Leo Britt, Alan Chuntz, Gary Files, Gerard Heinz, Juba Kennerley, Hildegard Knef, Ann Lancaster, Suzanne Owens-Duval, Frederick Schiller, Warren Stanhope, Hedger Wallace, Theodore Wilhelm, Vicki Woolf, Michael Segal
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Reviews
100
Aldrich was a master at presenting his distinctly cynical outlook in the context of crowd-pleasing entertainment, and The Dirty Dozen is one of his most effective and lasting efforts.
80
Empire
Unarguably one of the great war movies of all time.
80
Aldrich appears to be against everything: anti-military, anti-Establishment, anti-women, anti-religion, anti-culture, anti-life. Overriding such nihilism is the super-crudity of Aldrich's energy and his humour, sufficiently cynical to suggest that the whole thing is a game anyway, a spectacle that demands an audience.
80
IGN
Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson in the same picture. How much more bad-assedness do you need?
80
Lee Marvin heads a very strong, nearly all-male cast in an excellent performance.
