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The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, with an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker and Robert Webber. Set in 1944 during World War II, the film follows a penal military unit of twelve convicts as they are…
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*Two days ago I saw the movie The Dirty Dozen. These types of films have tried to celebrate the heroic actions of certain individuals or the collective actions of war, especially for propaganda purposes. This type of film was closely related to the American participation in World War II at the height of the 1940s, and for the next ten years, they focused on telling their great victories. However, in the 1960s, when…More
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If you had to choose a handful of military films to show a young audience what the past was like, *The Dirty Dozen*, would have to be on the list. It's one of those movies that made it to the Christmas time rerun lineups on that thing we used to watch all day, the TV. A lot of actors were WWII veterans back in the day. It's not that common today. Adam Driver is the only modern actor that comes to mind thinking of ve…More
Use criminals for good? This movie was quite a thing given the amount of censorship that was in place at the time of it's release (1967). It did cause a number of critics to write unfavourable reviews. Thankfully then as now most people take the critics reviews with a major grain of salt, the box office revenue did make it very successful. The main idea behind this film is take a number of prisoners on death row or…More