The Dirty Dozen

Name: The Dirty Dozen
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Released: 1967-06-15
Duration: 149 min
Rating: 7.598

★ 7,6 /10 (1,347 Votes)

1967 EN 149 min

Overview

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.

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Release date

15/06/1967

Votes

1,347

Popularity

8.6

Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!

Genres

Action Adventure War

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

149 min

Budget

$5,400,000

Revenue

$45,300,000

Lee Marvin

Maj. John Reisman

Ernest Borgnine

Maj. Gen. Worden

Charles Bronson

Joseph Wladislaw

Jim Brown

Robert Jefferson

John Cassavetes

Victor Franko

Richard Jaeckel

Sergeant Bowren

George Kennedy

Major Max Armbruster

Trini López

Pedro Jiminez

Ralph Meeker

Captain Stuart Kinder

Robert Ryan

Col. Everett Dasher Breed

Telly Savalas

Archer Maggott

Donald Sutherland

Vernon Pinkley

Clint Walker

Samson Posey

Robert Webber

General Denton

Tom Busby

Milo Vladek

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Ben Carruthers

Glenn Gilpin

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Stuart Cooper

Roscoe Lever

Robert Phillips

Cpl. Morgan - MP Guard

Colin Maitland

Seth Sawyer

Al Mancini

Tassos Bravos

George Roubicek

Pvt. Arthur James Gardner

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Thick Wilson

Gen. Worden's Aide

Dora Reisser

German Officer's Girl

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Michael Anthony

German Officer in Staff Car (uncredited)

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Leo Britt

German General in Staff Car (uncredited)

Alan Chuntz

French Servant (uncredited)

Gary Files

Ambulance Driver (uncredited)

Judith Furse

Drunken General's Wife (uncredited)

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Hal Galili

MP Master Sergeant / Hangman (uncredited)

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Romo Gorrara

Airborne Soldier (uncredited)

Willoughby Gray

German Officer (uncredited)

Gerard Heinz

Card-Playing German Officer (uncredited)

John G. Heller

2nd German Sentry at Chateau (uncredited)

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George Hilsdon

Medical Officer at Hanging (uncredited)

John Hollis

German Porter at Chateau (uncredited)

Alf Joint

German Sentry Wanting Light (uncredited)

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Juba Kennerley

German Officer (uncredited)

Hildegard Knef

(uncredited)

Ann Lancaster

Prostitute (uncredited)

Richard Marner

German Sentry at Chateau (uncredited)

Dick Miller

MP at Hanging (uncredited)

Lionel Murton

MP Lt. Col. in charge at hanging (uncredited)

Suzanne Owens-Duval

Prostitute (uncredited)

Mike Reid

Sergeant at War Games HQ (uncredited)

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Terry Richards

Staff Sergeant MacIntosh Blake (uncredited)

Frederick Schiller

Drunken German General (uncredited)

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Richard Shaw

German Officer Who Seals the Bunker (uncredited)

Warren Stanhope

German Officer (uncredited)

Hedger Wallace

German Officer (uncredited)

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Theodore Wilhelm

German Officer (uncredited)

Rocky Taylor

Airborne Soldier (uncredited)

Burnell Tucker

Army Doctor (uncredited)

Vicki Woolf

Prostitute (uncredited)

Michael Segal

Airborne Band Conductor (uncredited)

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Gerry Crampton

Staff Sergeant Alistair Clayton (uncredited)

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Jack Carter

Military Policman (uncredited)

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I loved this. Right up there with my favourite Aldrich films (though maybe 'Kiss Me Deadly' is still my number one), and of the greatest performances of both Lee Marvin and John Cassavetes (who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at both the Golden Globes and Oscars for his work here). This hearkened back to the heady times when if you got a great cast and director together, you were virtually guaranteed you'd come out of it, because of comparatively little studio interference, with a bonafide classic piece of cinema. People thought the studio system was broken and needed fixing, by fil…

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Lee Marvin is charged with a mission to drum a dozen criminals and reprobates into some sort of cohesive military unit with a view to destroying an heavily guarded chateau that serves as a respite for high ranking Nazi officers. The challenge looks impossible as the band are assembled - a bigger crowd of cowards, thugs and zealots you would never hope to see; but with the assistance of his stoic sergeant (Richard Jaeckel) he manages to get the wacky zealot Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, Sonny Bono, Jim Brown and a woefully sleazy John Cassavetes to pull in the same direction. It's all good st…

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