The Dirty Dozen
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.
27 March 1908, London, England, UK
21 November 1920, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
4 December 1926, New York City, New York, USA
July 16, 1937 in London, England, UK
28 April 1930, London, England, UK
July 4, 1907 in San Antonio, Texas, USA
May 10, 1918 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK
1909 in Germany
24 January 1917, Hamden, Connecticut, USA
2 June 1915, London, England, UK
1 November 1924, Willesden, London, England, UK
27 March 1921, Petrograd [now St. Petersburg], Russia
10 October 1926, Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA
14 August 1936, Illinois, USA
11 November 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1938, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1942, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
25 April 1907, West Ham, London, England, UK
12 August 1942, Birmingham, England, UK
July 29, 1911 in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
25 December 1928, The Bronx, New York, USA
c. 1943
November 26, 1935 in Middlesex, England, UK
14 October 1927, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK
18 February 1925, New York City, New York, USA
August 19, 2010
However trite the scenario looks now, it's still better than all but the best of its copycats.
March 26, 2009
Lee Marvin heads a very strong, nearly all-male cast in an excellent performance.
August 03, 2015
One of the smash hits of its year, this action-packed war movie is violent and amoral, and fans would say all the better for it.
August 03, 2015
One could, no doubt, if sufficiently determined, see all this as some deep, dark (in fact, practically subterranean) satire on the military mind. But there's precious little evidence of irony in Robert Aldrich's direction or the script.
August 03, 2015
Robert Aldrich dissects the underlying ideas with just enough craft and thoughtfulness to make the implications of this gritty 1966 war drama unsettling in not entirely constructive ways.
January 26, 2006
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.
March 18, 2011
Aldrich manages to use his time well, focusing on character traits and never letting the pace become bogged down.
May 20, 2003
A raw and preposterous glorification of a group of criminal soldiers who are trained to kill and who then go about this brutal business with hot, sadistic zeal is advanced in The Dirty Dozen, an astonishingly wanton war film.
October 23, 2004
Right up to the last scene the movie is amusing, well paced, intelligent.
