a5c7b9f00b It is 1944 and the Allied Armies stand ready for a major invasion of Germany from bases in England. As a prelude to D-Day, US Army Intelligence orders a top secret mission where convicted criminals will be offered a pardon in return for parachuting into the Reich on a suicide mission.
A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerous mission; To parachute behind enemy lines and cause havoc for the German Generals at a rest house on the eve of D-Day.
Wow, it's forty years since this film was made, and forty years since I last saw it. I've been revisiting some of the pictures I initially saw upon their original theatrical release in order to see how my impression of the movie might have changed over time. "The Dirty Dozen" still holds upa strong war time drama, made most compelling for me by the way Major Reisman (Lee Marvin) reads each of his 'recruits' in order to mold them into a cohesive unit. In fact it's the first third of the picture that I enjoy the most,the major characters are introduced and we get to know just enough about each to understand how their motivations might be exploited. John Cassavetes' portrayal of Victor Franko may have been the most complex on the surface, but Telly Savalas had an unusual assignment in the character of Archer Maggott. Although couched in religious extremism, I think the character went beyond that into a complex moral ambiguity. It was the kind of character that could have been the subject of a picture all by itself.<br/><br/>The casting surprise, if you grew up in the 1960's, had to do with Trini Lopezthe soldier Jimenez. Until this picture, my only recollection of Lopez would bea singer with some upbeat singles hits like "If I Had a Hammer" and "Lemon Tree". I'm curiousto how he was selected for a part in this picture, since the other main characters were already fairly well establishedactors (Marvin, Savalas, Bronson, George Kennedy), or on the rise (Donald Sutherland, Jim Brown). To his credit, Lopez did a fairly good job for the limited role he had.<br/><br/>What I couldn't quite understand was why the Robert Ryan character, Colonel Breed, wound up at odds with Major Reisman and the Dozen. He was aware from the start that Reisman would be training his men in secrecy for a behind the lines mission, so it didn't seem logical to me that he would try to thwart it's progress. It was mentioned earlier that Reisman and Breed didn't see eye to eye based on a former association, but still, the new objective for which Reisman was training his men was for the good of the war effort.<br/><br/>I've read with interest a number of the negative comments on the picture regarding the method of executing the mission via gasoline and explosives. I don't recall how that scenario was reviewed back in the late Sixties, but it seems we've come so far in terms of political correctness over the last forty years that there seems to be something to offend someone in every picture since, including cartoons. For my part, war is a dirty business where political correctness doesn't apply. Hitler didn't seem too concerned about incinerating women and children along with Jewish menpart of his ethnic cleansing program. If anything, the picture absolutely left out any hint of the savagery and brutality of Nazi officers, but I didn't read any complaints about that. Interesting.<br/><br/>Also interesting is the point that the fictionalized events of the story were set BEFORE America's entry into the European Theater with the Allied D-Day landing at Normandy. It's easy to overlook that fact while the movie goes through it's paces,the viewer's memory tends to recall events and battles of World War II that hadn't occurred yet relative to the story being told.
A dangerous mission to infiltrate the Nazis has been planned. It means certain death. Who better to recruit than prisoners who have already been sentenced to death (or at least hard labor) for murder, rape and theft? These twelve men will become the Dirty Dozen.<br/><br/>The cast here is amazing. Lee Marvin, Telly Savalasthe psychotically religious Archer Maggott, Donald SutherlandVernon Pinkley, and even an early uncredited appearance by Dick Miller. Savalas really steals the show with his uncontrollable behavior. Can he denounce the army for its immorality but yet be commanded by God to rape? He thinks so.<br/><br/>I found the film a bit unbalanced, with more focus on recruiting and training than the actual operation. I could have used more Nazi bashing. ("Inglorious Basterds" has a similar theme about men recruited to infiltrate the Nazis, though they are generally not criminals – but the focus there is more on the fighting, which pays off.) The recruitment is good, and the training is fine (establishing their "dirty dozen" name), I just think the divisions were slightly off.<br/><br/>A fine film, just the same. I would strongly recommend it to anyone who likes World War II flicks, or criminal rehabilitation, or Lee Marvin… or Telly Savalas. Really, it's a pretty great film.
There are some nice, amusing scenes, especially when one of the dozen (Donald Sutherland) pretends to be a general and inspects some troops. In fact, right up to the last scene the movie is amusing, well paced, intelligent.
U.S. Army Major John Reisman (<a href="/name/nm0001511/">Lee Marvin</a>) is "asked" by General Worden (<a href="/name/nm0000308/">Ernest Borgnine</a>) to train a dozen hardcore military prisoners, some of them sentenced to death by hanging, so that they can be led on a dangerous mission, called "Project Amnesty", behind enemy lines. In return for their service, the prisoners will have their sentences commuted …if they survive. The Dirty Dozen is also a 1965 novel by E.M. "Mick" Nathanson, said to be inspired by the Filthy Thirteen, a real life Demolition Section of the U.S. Army whose job it was to demolish enemy targets behind the lines. The book was adapted for the movie by Nunnally Johnson and Lukas Heller. A sequel, <a href="/title/tt0089026/">The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985)</a>, followed in 1985. They are: (1) Tassos Bravos (<a href="/name/nm0541438/">Al Mancini</a>), (2) Victor Franko (<a href="/name/nm0001023/">John Cassavetes</a>), (3) Glenn Gilpin (<a href="/name/nm0141092/">Ben Carruthers</a>), (4) Robert Jefferson (<a href="/name/nm0000987/">Jim Brown</a>), (5) Pedro Jiminez (<a href="/name/nm0530382/">Trini López</a>), (6) Roscoe Lever (<a href="/name/nm0003837/">Stuart Cooper</a>), (7) Archer Maggott (<a href="/name/nm0001699/">Telly Savalas</a>). (8) Vernon Pinkley (<a href="/name/nm0000661/">Donald Sutherland</a>), (9) Samson Posey (<a href="/name/nm0907636/">Clint Walker</a>), Seth Sawyer (<a href="/name/nm0537944/">Colin Maitland</a>), (11) Milo Vladik (<a href="/name/nm0123918/">Tom Busby</a>), and (12) Joseph Wladislaw (<a href="/name/nm0000314/">Charles Bronson</a>). To parachute into France, infiltrate a guarded French château in Rennes, Brittany, being used by high-ranking German officersa rest house, killmany Germanspossible, and destroy the communications tower in an effort to disrupt their chain of command before the Allied invasion on 6 June 1944. It's evident in the movie that Colonel Breed (<a href="/name/nm0752813/">Robert Ryan</a>) and Major Reisman greatly dislike each other, but no details about their backstory is provided. It's explained in the book that the mutual contempt between them began in Italy. Reisman, an OSS officer, was working undercover with local partisans in Italy and had observed Breed's arrogant and dismissive treatment of the paratroopers under his command. Reisman, dressedan Italian peasant, had seen Breed order his men out of a small cafe in which some of the troopers had stopped to have a drink. Reisman broke character and called Breed out for the jerk he was in English, telling him that he ought to give his guys a break and let them drink because tomorrow some of them might be dead. The pompous Breed, embarrassed in front of his men, was furious and had Reisman arrested and held until his identity was confirmed. Those were pencil detonators aka timing pencils, basically pens with blasting caps and short-duration timers, settable by turning. Reisman signals to Jefferson that it's time. Jefferson tosses live grenades down the ventilation shaftsquicklypossible, knowing that he has only 20 seconds to join Reisman, Wladislaw, Franco, and Sgt Bowren () in the German half-track before the grenades begin exploding. He almost makes it but is shot and killed by a German soldier. As the grenades start exploding, Reisman heads the half-track out of the courtyard and over a bridge. Sawyer and Lever, who have been servinglookouts, head for a boat to meet Reisman on the other side of the river but they are shot by Germans and their boat blown up. The half-track makes it across the river, and Franko begins shouting, "We made it!" Suddenly, a German solder steps out from under the bridge and shoots him in the back. The half-track continues its escape, carrying Reisman, Bowren, and Wladislaw, the only one of the dirty dozen to survive, a narrator states: Among the many reports of the raid on the château near Rennes, perhaps the most objective is the one by General Worden in which he states, "We are recommending that those members of the group knownthe Dirty Dozen who survived this operation should have their service records amended to indicate that they are returning to duty at their former ranks and that the next of kin of those prisoners who were killed be advised that they lost their lives in the line of duty." In the final scene, Reisman, Wladislaw, and Bowren are recuping at a military hospital. They are visited by Generals Worden and Denton (<a href="/name/nm0916434/">Robert Webber</a>) to commend them on a job well done. Just before leaving, Denton says to Wladislaw, "Hurry up and get well…we need men like you out there." After Warden and Denton have left the room, Wladislaw says, "Boy oh boy, killing gnerals could get to be a habit with me."
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