The Dirty Dozen
The story begins with new and powerful events, where the story tells of a leading general charged with a historic task of meeting military prisoners on death row or long missions for a dangerous mission. The man might ask these people to stand behind enemy lines and cause chaos to the German generals, which could be more risky and more dangerous.
22 September 1927, Hertfordshire, England, UK
28 February 1945, Bermondsey, London, England, UK
17 July 1935, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
1942, Bulgaria
July 23, 1931 in Stayner, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
19 April 1928, Teplitz-Schönau, Czechoslovakia [now Teplice Sanov, Czech Republic]
27 March 1908, London, England, UK
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 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.
March 18, 2011
Aldrich manages to use his time well, focusing on character traits and never letting the pace become bogged down.
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.
August 19, 2010
However trite the scenario looks now, it's still better than all but the best of its copycats.
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.
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.
March 26, 2009
Lee Marvin heads a very strong, nearly all-male cast in an excellent performance.
