An Army Major who likes to butt heads with his superiors, is being "given" a new assignment, to train 12 men who are either sentenced to death or life imprisonment, to go behind enemy lines raid a chateau that the Germans are using as an R&R center and kill as enemy officers as they can and disrupt the German chain of command. Now he not only has to train them; he has to get them to start acting like a unit. And when a Colonel whom the Major has been having the most trouble with reports to the Generals that his unit is not working out, the Major asks the General to try them out by having them participate in a war game. If they don't succeed they will be sent back to prison to face their sentences.
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, or as his 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 Bowren as his second in command, will infiltrate a highly fortified and guarded French château being used by the Nazis as respite house and meeting place primarily for high ranking German officers, kill as many of the officers as possible 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 work as a team, which includes having a zero tolerance policy for the group as a whole on issues such as escape 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 time as Reisman's squad, for which Breed has disdain.
This film is a wonderful achievement.<br/><br/>The story is intriguing, filled with bitter irony, violence, and tension. The characters are great, too (and so are all of the performances.) We really get to like and care for all of the sentenced men who make the &quot;Dirty Dozen,&quot; and also for Lee Marvin, the best bad-ass to ever appear on the screen! The movie is funny, extremely brutal, and even touching at the end. Although it is quite fictional, and considered an &quot;action&quot; film, it still leaves much up for discussion, such as the way these men are locked up for committing crimes at first, keeping them from doing their jobs as soldiers, or professional killers. And once they do get their chance to serve, and become heroes, their actions are merciless–the mission is plain and simple; kill a group of unsuspecting German generals to cause confusion on the eve of D-Day. It has many chilling moments; Lee Marvin orders that they dump gasoline on their enemies. The MP&#39;s response, &quot;Gasoline!? Are you sure?&quot; is unforgettable, and so is Marvin&#39;s expression when he leaves the embattled chateau and sees that one of his men has been killed.<br/><br/>The final forty-five minutes of the movie are amazingly tense–and possibly the shortest forty-five minutes you&#39;ll ever experience watching a movie. The only thing I wish they could change; I&#39;d like it if a certain character (the last one to get killed) lived. Oh well, I guess it does give his arc some closure. If you haven&#39;t seen this movie, I really recommend it. You&#39;ll wonder why it slipped by you for so long! *****
Major John Reisman is an unconventional US Army officer and he has been given a very unconventional mission. He is to lead a force made up of twelve army convicts and attack a château in France where senior German officers regularly meet. These twelve men haven&#39;t been convicted of minor crimes; most of them have been sentenced to hang and the others have a long time in prison in front of them. They are told that they is a good chance that they won&#39;t survive but if they perform well they will be offered an amnesty. Before they can proceed with the mission they must be moulded into a unit rather than twelve individuals looking out for themselves. Then they will have to prove themselves to sceptical senior officers. If they fail at any point they will return to face their sentences. Eventually they are ready and the Germans won&#39;t know what hit them!<br/><br/>This is a classic &#39;Boys&#39; Own Adventure&#39; type of war film; the story is relatively simple but effective. There is plenty of humour as the team gradually bond; especially when they are getting the better of the officious Colonel Breed and the scenes in France are genuinely exciting and it soon becomes clear that they won&#39;t all be returning home. The cast does a fine job; most notably Lee Marvin, who is great as Major Reisman; Charles Bronson, who plays the German-speaking Joseph Wladislaw and Telly Savalas, who is particularly disturbing as Archer Maggott a murderous rapist who believes he is doing God&#39;s work. The rest of the cast, which includes some familiar faces are good too. If you are looking for gritty realism this may disappoint but if you want a great bunch of characters, a touch of humour all leading up to an explosive finale you should love it.
Lee Marvin heads a very strong, nearly all-male cast in an excellent performance.
U.S. Army Major John Reisman (<a href="/name/nm0001511/">Lee Marvin</a>) is &quot;asked&quot; 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 &quot;Project Amnesty&quot;, 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. &quot;Mick&quot; 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 officers as a rest house, kill as many Germans as possible, and destroy the communications tower in an effort to disrupt their chain of command before the Allied invasion on 6 June 1944. It&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s arrogant and dismissive treatment of the paratroopers under his command. Reisman, dressed as an 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&#39;s time. Jefferson tosses live grenades down the ventilation shafts as quickly as possible, 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 serving as lookouts, 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, &quot;We made it!&quot; 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, &quot;We are recommending that those members of the group known as the 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.&quot; 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, &quot;Hurry up and get well…we need men like you out there.&quot; After Warden and Denton have left the room, Wladislaw says, &quot;Boy oh boy, killing gnerals could get to be a habit with me.&quot;
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