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12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
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7.593/10

CinemaSerf
Lee Marvin is charged with a mission to drum a dozen criminals and reprobates into some sort of cohesive military unit with a view to destroying an heavily guarded chateau that serves as a respite for... read more
12 months ago

John Chard
One of the most quintessential macho movies of all time. The Dirty Dozen is directed by Robert Aldrich and adapted for the screen by Nunnally Johnson & Lukas Heller from the novel by E. M. Nathans... read more
over 6 years ago
talisencrw
I loved this. Right up there with my favourite Aldrich films (though maybe 'Kiss Me Deadly' is still my number one), and of the greatest performances of both Lee Marvin and John Cassavetes (who was no... read more
almost 9 years ago
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Cast

Lee Marvin
Maj. John Reisman

Ernest Borgnine
Maj. Gen. Worden

Charles Bronson
Joseph Wladislaw

Jim Brown
Robert Jefferson

John Cassavetes
Victor Franko

Richard Jaeckel
Sergeant Bowren

George Kennedy
Major Max Armbruster

Trini López
Pedro Jiminez

Ralph Meeker
Captain Stuart Kinder

Robert Ryan
Col. Everett Dasher Breed

Telly Savalas
Archer Maggott

Donald Sutherland
Vernon Pinkley

Clint Walker
Samson Posey

Robert Webber
General Denton

Tom Busby
Milo Vladek

Ben Carruthers
Glenn Gilpin
Stuart Cooper
Roscoe Lever

Robert Phillips
Cpl. Morgan - MP Guard

Colin Maitland
Seth Sawyer

Al Mancini
Tassos Bravos
George Roubicek
Pvt. Arthur James Gardner
Thick Wilson
Gen. Worden's Aide

Dora Reisser
German Officer's Girl
Michael Anthony
German Officer in Staff Car (uncredited)
Leo Britt
German General in Staff Car (uncredited)

Alan Chuntz
French Servant (uncredited)

Gary Files
Ambulance Driver (uncredited)

Judith Furse
Drunken General's Wife (uncredited)
Hal Galili
MP Master Sergeant / Hangman (uncredited)
Romo Gorrara
Airborne Soldier (uncredited)

Willoughby Gray
German Officer (uncredited)

Gerard Heinz
Card-Playing German Officer (uncredited)

John G. Heller
2nd German Sentry at Chateau (uncredited)
George Hilsdon
Medical Officer at Hanging (uncredited)

John Hollis
German Porter at Chateau (uncredited)

Alf Joint
German Sentry Wanting Light (uncredited)
Juba Kennerley
German Officer (uncredited)

Hildegard Knef
(uncredited)

Ann Lancaster
Prostitute (uncredited)

Richard Marner
German Sentry at Chateau (uncredited)

Dick Miller
MP at Hanging (uncredited)

Lionel Murton
MP Lt. Col. in charge at hanging (uncredited)

Suzanne Owens-Duval
Prostitute (uncredited)

Mike Reid
Sergeant at War Games HQ (uncredited)
Terry Richards
Staff Sergeant MacIntosh Blake (uncredited)

Frederick Schiller
Drunken German General (uncredited)
Richard Shaw
German Officer Who Seals the Bunker (uncredited)

Warren Stanhope
German Officer (uncredited)

Hedger Wallace
German Officer (uncredited)
Theodore Wilhelm
German Officer (uncredited)

Rocky Taylor
Airborne Soldier (uncredited)

Burnell Tucker
Army Doctor (uncredited)

Vicki Woolf
Prostitute (uncredited)

Michael Segal
Airborne Band Conductor (uncredited)
Gerry Crampton
Staff Sergeant Alistair Clayton (uncredited)
Jack Carter
Military Policman (uncredited)
Director

Robert Aldrich
Director
Bert Batt
Assistant Director
Angela Allen
Script Supervisor
Creator

Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay
E.M. Nathanson
Novel
Lukas Heller
Screenplay