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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.
August 26, 1936 in Finsbury, London, England, UK
May 28, 1938 in Enfield, Middlesex, London, England, UK
1 November 1924, Willesden, London, England, UK
30 May 1927, Hartford, Illinois, USA
25 December 1928, The Bronx, New York, USA
28 February 1945, Bermondsey, London, England, UK
18 February 1925, New York City, New York, USA
2 January 1904, Hamburg, Germany
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3 November 1921, Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA
4 March 1912, Camberley, Surrey, England, UK
17 February 1936, St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA
November 26, 1935 in Middlesex, England, UK
July 29, 1911 in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
14 August 1936, Illinois, USA
May 10, 1918 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK
25 May 1935, Vienna, Austria
May 4, 1923 in West London, England, UK
September 26, 1911 in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
12 November 1927, Fulham, London, England, UK
27 March 1908, London, England, UK
5 May 1920, London, England, UK
14 October 1927, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK
2 November 1932, London, England, UK
July 23, 1931 in Stayner, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
5 November 1916, London, England, UK
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.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.October 23, 2004
Right up to the last scene the movie is amusing, well paced, intelligent.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.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.August 19, 2010
However trite the scenario looks now, it's still better than all but the best of its copycats.March 18, 2011
Aldrich manages to use his time well, focusing on character traits and never letting the pace become bogged down.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.