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When asked to name the quintessential 'guy movie' in Sleepless In Seattle, Tom Hanks put forward Robert Aldrich's "The Dirty Dozen" in response and who could argue with him. Released in 1967, this testosterone fueled war movie, gathered together a number of male stars, all big names in their own right, and turned around the way war movies were presented. No longer would the Allied forces be packed full of good guys taking the moral ...
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Advantages: Great performances, Lee Marvin, superb dramatic tension Disadvantages: Goof ups in depicting war games
The 60's was a period when we had great war flicks like Where Eagles Dare, The Dirty Dozen, Guns of Navaronne, The Great Escape, The Longest Day to name a few. My dad was a lover of such movies, and he would take me along as a kid, and that's how I grew up loving such cinema. Dirty Dozen is a typical lets get together guys and go on a mission, spot the star World War II movies which appeared regularly during that period. But this is one movie which ...
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The Dirty Dozen [1967]
A model for dozens of action films to follow, this box-office hit from 1967 refined a
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die-hard formula that has become overly familiar, but it's rarely been handled better than it was in this action-packed World War II thriller. Lee Marvin is perfectly...
The Dirty Dozen [1967]
A model for dozens of action films to follow, this box-office hit from 1967 refined a
... more
die-hard formula that has become overly familiar, but it's rarely been handled better than it was in this action-packed World War II thriller. Lee Marvin is perfectly...
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