The Dirty Dozen
This story tells about powerful scenes and events that look exciting and different. The story began with the pilot, who will perform a strong mission. The pilot general will be assigned to meet the prisoners on death row who are military prisoners who have taken on dangerous missions. The pilot asks them to stand behind enemy lines and cause chaos to the German generals
14 October 1927, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK
18 February 1925, New York City, New York, USA
14 August 1936, Illinois, USA
2 June 1915, London, England, UK
21 November 1920, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
5 November 1916, London, England, UK
13 November 1932, Steubenville, Ohio, USA
July 23, 1931 in Stayner, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
3 November 1921, Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA
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 19, 2010
However trite the scenario looks now, it's still better than all but the best of its copycats.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.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.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.October 23, 2004
Right up to the last scene the movie is amusing, well paced, intelligent.March 18, 2011
Aldrich manages to use his time well, focusing on character traits and never letting the pace become bogged down.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.