The Dirty Dozen (1967)
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- Approved
- 2h 30min
- Action, Adventure
- 20 Jul 1967 (Peru)
- Movie
During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
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Awards:
- Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 9 nominations.
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Cast verified as complete
Lee Marvin | ... |
Major John Reisman
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Ernest Borgnine | ... |
General Worden
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Charles Bronson | ... |
Joseph T. Wladislaw
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Jim Brown | ... |
Robert T. Jefferson
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John Cassavetes | ... |
Victor R. Franko
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Richard Jaeckel | ... |
Sergeant Bowren
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George Kennedy | ... |
Major Max Armbruster
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Trini López | ... |
Pedro Jiminez
(as Trini Lopez)
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Ralph Meeker | ... |
Captain Stuart Kinder
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Robert Ryan | ... |
Col. Everett Dasher Breed
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Telly Savalas | ... |
Archer J. Maggott
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Donald Sutherland | ... |
Vernon L. Pinkley
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Clint Walker | ... |
Samson Posey
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Robert Webber | ... |
General Denton
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Tom Busby | ... |
Milo Vladek
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Ben Carruthers | ... |
Glenn S. Gilpin
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Stuart Cooper | ... |
Roscoe Lever
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Robert Phillips | ... |
Corporal Morgan
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Colin Maitland | ... |
Seth K. Sawyer
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Al Mancini | ... |
Tassos R. Bravos
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George Roubicek | ... |
Pvt. Arthur James Gardner
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Thick Wilson | ... |
General Worden's Aide
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Dora Reisser | ... |
German Officer's Girl
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Lewis Alexander | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Michael Anthony | ... |
German Officer in Staff Car (uncredited)
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William Baskiville | ... |
Military Policeman (uncredited)
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Roy Beck | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Cynthia Bizeray | ... |
German Officer's Wife (uncredited)
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Leo Britt | ... |
German General in Staff Car (uncredited)
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Harry Brooks Jr. | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Ken Buckle | ... |
German Sentry (uncredited)
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Jack Carter | ... |
Military Policman (uncredited)
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Alan Chuntz | ... |
French Servant (uncredited)
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Victor Coventry | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Harold Coyne | ... |
Soldier (uncredited)
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Gerry Crampton | ... |
Staff Sergeant Alistair Clayton (uncredited)
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Hugh Elton | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Gary Files | ... |
Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
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Suzanne Fleuret | ... |
French Servant (uncredited)
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Judith Furse | ... |
Drunken General's Wife (uncredited)
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Hal Galili | ... |
MP Master Sergeant / Hangman (uncredited)
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Victor Gallucci | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Alan Gibbs | ... |
American Orderly (uncredited)
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Romo Gorrara | ... |
Airborne Soldier (uncredited)
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Willoughby Gray | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Patrick Halpin | ... |
German General (uncredited)
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Alan Harris | ... |
Soldier (uncredited)
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Gerard Heinz | ... |
Card-Playing German Officer (uncredited)
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John G. Heller | ... |
2nd German Sentry at Chateau (uncredited)
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George Hilsdon | ... |
Medical Officer at Hanging (uncredited)
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John Hollis | ... |
German Porter at Chateau (uncredited)
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Alf Joint | ... |
German Sentry Wanting Light (uncredited)
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Angela Kay | ... |
German Officer's Wife (uncredited)
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Juba Kennerley | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Eric Kent | ... |
Airborne Soldier (uncredited)
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John Ketteringham | ... |
(uncredited)
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Hildegard Knef | ... |
(uncredited)
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Ann Lancaster | ... |
Prostitute (uncredited)
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Roy Lansford | ... |
Officer (uncredited)
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Aileen Lewis | ... |
German Officer's Wife (uncredited)
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Dickey Luck | ... |
German General (uncredited)
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Richard Marner | ... |
German Sentry at Chateau (uncredited)
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Mark McBride | ... |
French Servant (uncredited)
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Dick Miller | ... |
MP at Hanging (uncredited)
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John More | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Lou Morgan | ... |
MP Putting Hood on Gardner (uncredited)
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Norman Morris | ... |
American Officer (uncredited)
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Lionel Murton | ... |
MP Lt. Col. in Charge at Hanging (uncredited)
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Suzanne Owens-Duval | ... |
Prostitute (uncredited)
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Joe Phelps | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Edith Raye | ... |
German Officer's Wife (uncredited)
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Mike Reid | ... |
Sergeant at War Games HQ (uncredited)
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Terry Richards | ... |
Staff Sergeant McIntosh Blake (uncredited)
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Jack Ross | ... |
French Servant (uncredited)
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Gordon Ruttan | ... |
MP Corporal / Desk Clerk (uncredited)
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Frederick Schiller | ... |
Drunken German General (uncredited)
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Bunny Seaman | ... |
German Officer's Wife (uncredited)
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Michael Segal | ... |
Airborne Band Conductor (uncredited)
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Jack Sharp | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Richard Shaw | ... |
German Officer Who Seals the Bunker (uncredited)
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Tony Snell | ... |
MP (uncredited)
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Warren Stanhope | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Michael Stayner | ... |
German Radio Operator (uncredited)
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Emile Stemmler | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Michael Stevens | ... |
Officer at Command Post (uncredited)
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Bill Strange | ... |
Military Policeman (uncredited)
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Fred Stroud | ... |
Officer at Hanging (uncredited)
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Elliott Sullivan | ... |
Army officer at briefing (uncredited)
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John Tatham | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Rocky Taylor | ... |
Airborne Soldier (uncredited)
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Burnell Tucker | ... |
Army Doctor (uncredited)
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Hedger Wallace | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Ken Wayne | ... |
Master Sergeant Gill Fredericks (uncredited)
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Theodore Wilhelm | ... |
German Officer (uncredited)
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Jeremy Wilkin | ... |
Sergeant at Command Post (uncredited)
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Fred Wood | ... |
German Soldier (uncredited)
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Vicki Woolf | ... |
Prostitute (uncredited)
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Directed by
Robert Aldrich |
Written by
Nunnally Johnson | ... | (screen play by) and |
Lukas Heller | ... | (screen play by) |
E.M. Nathanson | ... | (from the novel by) |
Produced by
Raymond Anzarut | ... | associate producer |
Kenneth Hyman | ... | producer (produced by) |
Music by
Frank De Vol | ... | (as De Vol) |
Cinematography by
Edward Scaife | ... | director of photography |
Editing by
Michael Luciano |
Editorial Department
William Parnell | ... | second assistant editor (uncredited) |
David Woodward | ... | first assistant editor (uncredited) |
Art Direction by
William Hutchinson | ... | (as W.E. Hutchinson) |
Makeup Department
Ernest Gasser | ... | makeup artist |
Wally Schneiderman | ... | makeup artist (as Walter Schneiderman) |
Production Management
Julian Mackintosh | ... | unit production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bert Batt | ... | assistant director |
Dusty Symonds | ... | second assistant director (uncredited) |
Art Department
Dave Coldham | ... | plasterer foreman |
Frank McCarthy | ... | poster artist |
Colin Grimes | ... | assistant art director (uncredited) |
Russell Hagg | ... | draughtsman (uncredited) |
Peter Hancock | ... | props (uncredited) |
Tim Hutchinson | ... | set designer (uncredited) |
Mickey Lennon | ... | assistant property master (uncredited) |
Bill Welch | ... | construction manager (uncredited) |
Sound Department
Claude Hitchcock | ... | sound recordist |
Franklin Milton | ... | sound recordist |
John Poyner | ... | sound editor |
Van Allen James | ... | sound editor (uncredited) |
Aaron Rochin | ... | re-recording mixer (uncredited) |
Special Effects by
Cliff Richardson | ... | special effects supervisor |
Alan Barnard | ... | special effects (uncredited) |
Jimmy Harris | ... | special effects (uncredited) |
Peter Hutchinson | ... | special effects assistant (uncredited) |
Garth Inns | ... | special effects (uncredited) |
John Richardson | ... | special effects assistant (uncredited) |
Roy Whybrow | ... | special effects (uncredited) |
Jack Woodbridge | ... | special effects (uncredited) |
Stunts
Joe Powell | ... | stunts |
Bernard Barnsley | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Ken Buckle | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Alan Chuntz | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Gerry Crampton | ... | stunt coordinator (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited) |
Jim Dowdall | ... | stunt double Lee Marvin (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited) |
Joe Dunne | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Romo Gorrara | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Loren Janes | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Alf Joint | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Rick Lester | ... | stunt driver: stunt double Clint Walker (uncredited) |
Maurice Marks | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Mark McBride | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
William Offer | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Terence Plummer | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Nosher Powell | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Mike Reid | ... | stunt driver (uncredited) |
Terry Richards | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Roy Scammell | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Rocky Taylor | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Paul Weston | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Camera and Electrical Department
Mike Drew | ... | focus puller |
Alan McCabe | ... | camera operator |
Tony Spratling | ... | camera operator |
Ronald Anscombe | ... | focus puller (uncredited) |
Chris Ashbrook | ... | focus puller: second unit (uncredited) |
Roger Berner | ... | clapper loader (uncredited) |
David Cadwallader | ... | grip (uncredited) |
Terry Cole | ... | focus puller: second camera (uncredited) |
Jim Dawes | ... | grip (uncredited) |
Dennis Fraser | ... | grip (uncredited) |
Edward Michael Perry | ... | electrician (uncredited) |
Paul Wilson | ... | camera operator (uncredited) |
David Wynn-Jones | ... | clapper loader (uncredited) |
Music Department
Robert Armbruster | ... | conductor (uncredited) |
Robert Bain | ... | musician: guitar (uncredited) |
Harry Bluestone | ... | musician: violin (uncredited) |
Frank De Vol | ... | conductor (uncredited) |
Arthur L. Frantz | ... | musician-french horn (uncredited) |
Artie Kane | ... | musician: piano (uncredited) |
Virginia Majewski | ... | musician: viola (uncredited) |
Red Mitchell | ... | musician: bass (uncredited) |
Uan Rasey | ... | musician: trumpet (uncredited) |
Frederick Seykora | ... | musician: cello (uncredited) |
Raymond Turner | ... | musician: piano (uncredited) |
Albert Woodbury | ... | orchestrator (uncredited) |
Script and Continuity Department
Angela Allen | ... | continuity |
Transportation Department
Walter Lesley Tiley | ... | truck driver (uncredited) |
Additional Crew
Walter Blake | ... | main title design |
Don Archell | ... | stand-in: Charles Bronson (uncredited) |
Jim Dowdall | ... | armorer (uncredited) |
Norma Garment | ... | production secretary (uncredited) |
Gordon Stebbing | ... | assistant accountant (uncredited) |
Production Companies
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (presented by)
- MKH
- Seven Arts Productions
Distributors
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1967) (United States) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1967) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1967) (France) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1967) (Italy) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1967) (Spain) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1967) (West Germany) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1967) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Fotorama (1967) (Norway) (theatrical)
- Filmipaja (1967) (Finland) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1967) (Japan) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1967) (Australia) (theatrical)
- Filmes Lusomundo (1968) (Portugal) (theatrical) (35 mm, 70 mm)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1968) (India) (theatrical)
- Neue Visionen Filmverleih (West Germany) (theatrical)
- CBS (1970) (United States) (tv)
- Cinema International Corporation (CIC) (Spain) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Cinema International Corporation (CIC) (Italy) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1975) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Esselte CIC Video (Netherlands) (VHS) (as Esselte Video) (through MGM / UA Home Video)
- Cinema International Corporation (CIC) (1976) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1983) (United States) (VHS)
- MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1983) (United States) (video) (CED VideoDisc)
- Audio Visual Enterprises (1984) (Greece) (VHS)
- MGM Home Entertainment (Netherlands) (VHS) (for Esselte Video)
- Warner Home Video (West Germany) (VHS)
- Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
- Mainostelevisio (MTV3) (1986) (Finland) (tv)
- MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1990) (United States) (video) (laserdisc)
- MGM Home Entertainment (1991) (United States) (VHS)
- Warner Home Video (1993) (Finland) (VHS)
- MGM Home Entertainment (1998) (United States) (DVD)
- Warner Home Vídeo (1998) (Brazil) (DVD)
- Creative Design (2000) (United States) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2000) (United States) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2004) (Finland) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2004) (Germany) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2006) (Canada) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2006) (Sweden) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2006) (United States) (DVD) (HD DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2007) (United States) (Blu-ray)
- Warner Home Video (2009) (Germany) (DVD) (Premium Edition)
- HBO Max (2020) (United States) (video) (VOD)
- 7Mate (2023) (Australia) (tv)
- 7flix (2023) (Australia) (tv)
- Herald Pony (Japan) (VHS)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Karma Transport (transportation)
- MGM Home Entertainment (DVD package design)
- MGM/UA Entertainment Company (vhs package design)
- Turner Entertainment (DVD package design)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
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.
Written by John Vogel |
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Taglines | D-Day Began When The Dirty Dozen Were Done! See more » |
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Parents Guide | View content advisory » |
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Box Office
Budget | $5,400,000 (estimated) |
Did You Know?
Trivia | Lee Marvin referred to this movie as "crap" and "just a dummy moneymaker", although he enjoyed the film. The movie has nothing to do with war, he stressed, and he was very pleased that he got to do The Big Red One (1980), which mirrored his own wartime experiences. Marvin also said many of the actors in this film were too old to play soldiers. See more » |
Goofs | (at around 1h 35 mins) During WWII no Black man could have attained the rank of major in an all white outfit so he would not have fooled the doctor or ambulance driver. Someone else should have been chosen as the leader of that unit for it to work. See more » |
Movie Connections | Edited into Hogan's Double Life (1971). See more » |
Soundtracks | The Bramble Bush See more » |
Crazy Credits | The opening credits don't occur until 10 minutes into the film. While it is common nowadays for films to have a pre-credits sequence, it was considered innovative in 1967. See more » |
Quotes |
Pinkley:
[impersonating a General]
Where are you from, son? Soldier: Madison City, Missouri, sir! Pinkley: Never heard of it. See more » |