The Dirty Dozen

World War II thriller about an American major who recruits a group of military prisoners for a suicide mission on a French chateau held by top Nazi officers. Since no “normal” GI can be expected to volunteer for this assignment, the “volunteers,” serving life sentences, receive the dim promise of getting pardons if they survive., In World War II, twelve American military prisoners are offered parole, if they complete a suicide mission behind enemy lines just before D-Day., Twelve condemned soldiers are pressed into service as a crack commando team to undertake a daring mission in Nazi-occupied France. the terrific cast adds star-power to Robert Aldrich’s hard-hitting adventure yarn., Blockbusting war drama about a motley crew of death-row criminals who get the chance to redeem themselves in action in World War II. Forged into a tough fighting unit, they are sent on a suicide mission to Nazi-occupied France., In the second sequel to the 1967 hit movie, a dozen military convicts, led by the ruthless Major Wright, plan to rescue a group of scientists who are being coerced into developing a nerve gas so lethal that it could change the course of the war., Starring Lee Marvin, Telly Savalas and Charles Bronson. Directed by Robert Aldrich. A major with a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long prison terms for a dangerous mission. They must parachute behind enemy lines and cause havoc for the German Generals., WWII thriller about U.S. military prisoners on a suicidal mission in occupied France. Their mission is to take a French castle held by top Nazi officers., Twelve condemned soldiers are pressed into service as a crack commando team to undertake a daring mission in Nazi-occupied France., Director Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by Lukas Heller and Nunnally Johnson and fashioned The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM’s biggest moneymakers of the 1960s–and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio’s history. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, assigned to coordinate a suicide mission on a French chateau held by top Nazi officers. Since no “normal” GI can be expected to volunteer for this mission, Reisman is compelled to draw his personnel from a group of military prisoners serving life sentences. This “dirty dozen” includes a sex pervert (Telly Savalas), a psycho (John Cassavetes), a retarded killer (Donald Sutherland), and the equally malevolent Charles Bronson, Trini Lopez, Jim Brown, and Clint Walker. On the dim promise of receiving pardons if they survive, the criminals undergo a brutal training program, then are marched behind enemy lines dressed as Nazi soldiers, the better to overtake the chateau and kill everyone in it–including the innocent wives and mistresses of the German officers., WWII thriller about US military prisoners on a suicidal mission in occupied France. Their mission is to take a French castle held by top Nazi officers.