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Movie
The Dirty Dozen
Synopsis
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.
Cast
- Lee Marvin
- Ernest Borgnine
- Charles Bronson
- Jim Brown
- John Cassavetes
- Richard Jaeckel
- George Kennedy
- Trini Lopez
- Ralph Meeker
- Robert Ryan
- Telly Savalas
- Donald Sutherland
- Clint Walker
- Robert Webber
- Tom Busby
- Ben Carruthers
- Stuart Cooper
- Robert Phillips
- Colin Maitland
- Al Mancini
- George Roubicek
- Thick Wilson
- Dora Reisser
- Dick Miller
- Harry Brooks Jr.
- Cliff Richardson
- Ken Buckle
- Wally Schneiderman
- William Hutchinson
- Edward Scaife
- Nunnally Johnson
- Lukas Heller
- Michael Luciano
- John Poyner
- Ernest Gasser
- Raymond Anzarut