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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They are convicts, psychos, lunkheads, losers - and champs at the box office and in movie ... more
lore. Decades after it burst onto the scene, The Dirty Dozen remains a milestone among ensemble flicks.Lee Marvin portrays a tough-as-nails major volunteered in the Army way to command a squad of misfits on a suicide mission against Nazi brass. Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland and Clint Walker are among the 12 jailbirds who will earn their freedom if they survive. And Robert Aldrich (The Longest Yard) directs, blending anti-authority gibes with explosive excitement.
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lore. Decades after it burst onto the scene, THE DIRTY DOZEN remains a milestone among ensemble action flicks.Lee Marvin portrays a tough-as-nails major volunteered in the Army way to command a squad of misfits on a suicide mission against Nazi Brass. Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland and Clint Walker are among the 12 jailbirds who will earn their freedom if they survive. And Robert Aldrich directs, blending anti-authority gibes with explosive excitement. Nominated for four Academy Awards, THE DIRTY DOZEN won for Best Sound Effects.
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Production Year: 1965 - War - Director: Anthony Mann - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Michael Redgrave, Roy Dotrice, Anton Diffring
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 DirtyDozen, 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. DirtyDozen 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 I love seeing again and again, thanks to it's great dialogue and superb pacing.
With the advent of D-Day, the US Army has come up with a plan to interrupt German chain of command. Raid a secluded mansion where most of the high ranking Nazi officers come to party with their mistresses and kill every one there. It's a suicidal operation, and so the army decides to make use of convicted ...
Advantages: A classic war, action movie Disadvantages: Very thin storyline
and there is slight graining but this is to be expected for such an old film.
* Sound Quality
The same can be said for the sound, as it is pretty flat and other than using the front speakers you get little else, not that it detracts from your viewing pleasure.
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Even though "The DirtyDozen" does not have much of a plot, and very little character depth it does have great action and subtle comedy to make for it. It is what I would call a good old fashioned action movie where men were real men and there was no pussy footing about trying to be politically correct. This may not appeal to many viewers, especially younger audiences who are used to high budget, technology packed epics, but it still has great pulling power for anyone who grew up on these classic war movies.
The DVD package is very good, especially ...
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When asked to name the quintessential 'guy movie' in Sleepless In Seattle, Tom Hanks put forward Robert Aldrich's "The DirtyDozen" 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 high ground, whilst espousing the honour and glory of war, but instead the more brutal realites would be exposed where in fact necessary ends are achieved through less than heroic actions. Released in the midst of the Vietnam war, those that followed may have concentrated on that event as opposed to the battle against the German war ...
A strike force of violent criminals are recruited to tackle one of the most bizarre and dangerous combat missions of World War 2.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
CDA ENTERTAINMENT; SONY DADC
Release date
31/05/2004
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
D 201112
Barcode
5060051630934
Director of Photography
Edward Scaife
Languages
Main Language
English
DVD Description
An all-star cast energizes Robert Aldrich's classic World War II action drama about a group of 12 American military prisoners assembled by tacticians and ordered to perform a suicide mission: infiltrate a well-guarded chateau and kill the Nazi officials staying there. The incarcerated soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, jump at the chance to redeem themselves. Major Reisman (Lee Marvin), the noncriminal in charge of the group, whips the men into a crack unit, uses them to best the troops of his by-the-book superior officer, Colonel Breed (Robert Ryan), in war games, then leads the steely antiheroes on their perilous assault. The film is studded with standout performances, including Telly Savalas as a religious psychopath with a febrile animosity toward Germans and John Cassavetes in an Oscar-nominated portrayal as an insubordinate, poison-tongued hothead. Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson, and football legend Jim Brown further round out the impressive collection of talent. Aldrich, who by the time of THE DIRTY DOZEN had been fathoming the darker side of life onscreen for more than a decade (KISS ME DEADLY, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE
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