a5c7b9f00b US army Major John Reisman, based in London, is an inventive man who often thinks outside the box which causes many problems in the structured military. But it is because of this mentality that in March 1944, he is assigned, orhis superiors put it volunteers for a near suicide mission. Prior to the Allied forces invading continental Europe, he and his team, who he will train personally with Sergeant Bowrenhis second in command, will infiltrate a highly fortified and guarded French château being used by the Nazisrespite house and meeting place primarily for high ranking German officers, killmany of the officerspossible and take out the communications tower. His squad will consist of twelve of the most heavily sentenced GI convicts, many whose sentence is death. Reisman, who doesn't like the assignment because of the involvement of the convicts, adds one caveat to doing this job: that the convicts have their sentences commuted if they survive. Reisman quickly learns that besides a resentment to authority, the twelve convicts are a disparate group, each with their own button issues and motivations. Reisman not only has to get them to cooperate, but worka team, which includes having a zero tolerance policy for the groupa whole on issues suchescape attempts while under his command. Even if he can achieve these goals, Reisman also faces the obstacle of Colonel Everett Breed, who is the antithesis of Reisman and who will be at the parachute training base at the same timeReisman's squad, for which Breed has disdain.
A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerous mission; To parachute behind enemy lines and cause havoc for the German Generals at a rest house on the eve of D-Day.
This movie was pretty good! A nice entertainment although a somewhat mindless one.<br/><br/>Never got too involved with any of the characters although some of them were clearly bad-asses/good hearted guys.<br/><br/>Overall it was at times a little cheesy or unrealistic.<br/><br/>But it has a good pace overall, some good lines, a few laughs. And the characters do really carry the movie and are very good despite not feeling overly attached to any of them individually.<br/><br/>Also the conclusion was awesome! Very exciting and somewhat suspenseful watching how this grand finale would go down.<br/><br/>This could easily be an 8 but I'm going with a 7 because it didn't quite have that little bit of extra oomph, perhaps it's age is the reason why it doesn't quite stand the test of time. Still a very fun movie to relax and watch when you're not trying to really have to over analyze or stretch the brain.
A generally entertaining war film with no real political axe to grind or patriotic flagwaving getting in the way. Its very dangerous trying to humourise war in the movies, because that would be offensive to all those that had served & died in real life. Kelly's Heroes and 1941 probably went a little too far, pretending that war is really fun & cool when you've got people like Clint Eastwood in charge. But then you have other war films that are black in its humour but manage to keep into focus the cruelty & horrors of war at the same time - M*A*S*H and Catch 22 are the best examples. With Dirty Dozen we have something of a go-between; the humour amongst the characters is light & welcoming but never falls into farce or bad-taste; and Aldrich quickly pulls us back into the fold with some tight scripted scenes of drama & mass murder (throwing petrol & grenades into that German bunker to name but one. I often wonder about that scene, and whether it was some kind of metaphor for the gas chambers & concentration camps in Belsen) But unlike MASH & Catch 22, Aldrich resists the temptation to openly politicise the effects of war, after all this film was made in '67 near the height of the Vietnam war/protests. Instead he takes a straight line course of action and lets us be moved & entertained by the convicted GIs doing their duty. Marvin is excellentthe hardnosed but disobediant Major. He plays the anti-hero far better than Eastwood in Kelly's Heroes. Marvin just looks the type who'd give the top brasswell the Germans a real hard time. But special mention must go to CassavettesViktor Franko, the trouble-maker's trouble-maker. His character is so refreshing & wild amongst a relatively mild cast of supporting extras, with the exception of Savalas. Franko is the Joker of the pack but you soon feel an attachment for him in spite of his crimes. Sutherland & Bronson, don't really add much. The former plays a slightly naive man who hasn't really grown up and Bronson just smirks & mumbles a lot. The only other character worthy of a mention is the truly terrifying Savalas, who is a Christian through & through, yet hates all women muchthe Germans; and has a most spine chilling laugh! Difficult to believe this man later became Kojak! The film is a tad overlong; the first & last 40 minutes hold the interest but the middle section (the War Games scene), is far too long and generally detracts. All the same, DD is a very good movie, especially for those who don't want to be politically moralised too. ***/*****
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.
U.S. Army Major John Reisman (<a href="/name/nm0001511/">Lee Marvin</a>) is "asked" by General Worden (<a href="/name/nm0000308/">Ernest Borgnine</a>) to train a dozen hardcore military prisoners, some of them sentenced to death by hanging, so that they can be led on a dangerous mission, called "Project Amnesty", behind enemy lines. In return for their service, the prisoners will have their sentences commuted …if they survive. The Dirty Dozen is also a 1965 novel by E.M. "Mick" Nathanson, said to be inspired by the Filthy Thirteen, a real life Demolition Section of the U.S. Army whose job it was to demolish enemy targets behind the lines. The book was adapted for the movie by Nunnally Johnson and Lukas Heller. A sequel, <a href="/title/tt0089026/">The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985)</a>, followed in 1985. They are: (1) Tassos Bravos (<a href="/name/nm0541438/">Al Mancini</a>), (2) Victor Franko (<a href="/name/nm0001023/">John Cassavetes</a>), (3) Glenn Gilpin (<a href="/name/nm0141092/">Ben Carruthers</a>), (4) Robert Jefferson (<a href="/name/nm0000987/">Jim Brown</a>), (5) Pedro Jiminez (<a href="/name/nm0530382/">Trini López</a>), (6) Roscoe Lever (<a href="/name/nm0003837/">Stuart Cooper</a>), (7) Archer Maggott (<a href="/name/nm0001699/">Telly Savalas</a>). (8) Vernon Pinkley (<a href="/name/nm0000661/">Donald Sutherland</a>), (9) Samson Posey (<a href="/name/nm0907636/">Clint Walker</a>), Seth Sawyer (<a href="/name/nm0537944/">Colin Maitland</a>), (11) Milo Vladik (<a href="/name/nm0123918/">Tom Busby</a>), and (12) Joseph Wladislaw (<a href="/name/nm0000314/">Charles Bronson</a>). To parachute into France, infiltrate a guarded French château in Rennes, Brittany, being used by high-ranking German officersa rest house, killmany Germanspossible, and destroy the communications tower in an effort to disrupt their chain of command before the Allied invasion on 6 June 1944. It's evident in the movie that Colonel Breed (<a href="/name/nm0752813/">Robert Ryan</a>) and Major Reisman greatly dislike each other, but no details about their backstory is provided. It's explained in the book that the mutual contempt between them began in Italy. Reisman, an OSS officer, was working undercover with local partisans in Italy and had observed Breed's arrogant and dismissive treatment of the paratroopers under his command. Reisman, dressedan Italian peasant, had seen Breed order his men out of a small cafe in which some of the troopers had stopped to have a drink. Reisman broke character and called Breed out for the jerk he was in English, telling him that he ought to give his guys a break and let them drink because tomorrow some of them might be dead. The pompous Breed, embarrassed in front of his men, was furious and had Reisman arrested and held until his identity was confirmed. Those were pencil detonators aka timing pencils, basically pens with blasting caps and short-duration timers, settable by turning. Reisman signals to Jefferson that it's time. Jefferson tosses live grenades down the ventilation shaftsquicklypossible, knowing that he has only 20 seconds to join Reisman, Wladislaw, Franco, and Sgt Bowren () in the German half-track before the grenades begin exploding. He almost makes it but is shot and killed by a German soldier. As the grenades start exploding, Reisman heads the half-track out of the courtyard and over a bridge. Sawyer and Lever, who have been servinglookouts, head for a boat to meet Reisman on the other side of the river but they are shot by Germans and their boat blown up. The half-track makes it across the river, and Franko begins shouting, "We made it!" Suddenly, a German solder steps out from under the bridge and shoots him in the back. The half-track continues its escape, carrying Reisman, Bowren, and Wladislaw, the only one of the dirty dozen to survive, a narrator states: Among the many reports of the raid on the château near Rennes, perhaps the most objective is the one by General Worden in which he states, "We are recommending that those members of the group knownthe Dirty Dozen who survived this operation should have their service records amended to indicate that they are returning to duty at their former ranks and that the next of kin of those prisoners who were killed be advised that they lost their lives in the line of duty." In the final scene, Reisman, Wladislaw, and Bowren are recuping at a military hospital. They are visited by Generals Worden and Denton (<a href="/name/nm0916434/">Robert Webber</a>) to commend them on a job well done. Just before leaving, Denton says to Wladislaw, "Hurry up and get well…we need men like you out there." After Warden and Denton have left the room, Wladislaw says, "Boy oh boy, killing gnerals could get to be a habit with me."
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