The Dirty Dozen (1967)
87%RT Audience Score: 90%
Awards & Nominations: Won 1 Oscar
4 wins & 9 nominations total
Amoral on the surface and exuding testosterone, The Dirty Dozen utilizes combat and its staggering cast of likable scoundrels to deliver raucous entertainment
The Dirty Dozen is a classic war movie that’s both thrilling and hilarious. Lee Marvin and the cast inject an abundance of humor that’s a blessed relief from the gory details of war. The bad guys are the heroes in this exciting World War II drama that will make you cheer. It’s a thoroughly rotten picture in the most wonderful ways, notably absent of any usual pieties about God and country or apple pie Americana. Director Robert Aldrich manages to capture the chaos and cohesiveness of Americans at war, making The Dirty Dozen a clean hit that packs a punch.
Production Company(ies)
Virgen Films,
Distributor
Creative Design [us], Warner Home Vídeo, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Ashridge Management College, Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England, UK
MPAA / Certificate
Approved
Year of Release
1967
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Mono
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:2h 29m
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Language(s):English, German, French, Spanish, Latin
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jun 15, 1967 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 3, 2005
Genre(s)
War
Keyword(s)
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Ernest Borgnine – Maj. Gen. Worden
Charles Bronson – Joseph T. Wladislaw
Jim Brown – Robert T. Jefferson
John Cassavetes – Victor Franko
Richard Jaeckel – Sgt. Clyde Bowren
and more…
Director(s)
Robert Aldrich
Writer(s)
E.M. Nathanson, Nunnally Johnson, Lukas Heller
Producer(s)
Kenneth Hyman
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 Oscar
4 wins & 9 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (52) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (10)
Director Aldrich manages to zero in on the griping and grime, the chaos and cohesiveness of Americans at war, and in so doing, makes The Dirty Dozen a clean hit that packs the highest-echelon example of wit and wallop.
June 2, 2021
Clifford Terry
Chicago Tribune
TOP CRITIC
The Dirty Dozen with a fairly sharp script, plenty of excitement and adventure and a good cast still doesn’t swim above the flood tide of over done World War II movie themes.
November 20, 2020
Robert E. Golden
Arizona Republic
TOP CRITIC
It is another magnificent performance by Marvin. Among his men are Telly Savalas Jim Brown Clint Walker, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland, Trini Lopez and Al Mancini. Every one is a scene-stealer at one moment or another.
November 20, 2020
George Bourke
Miami Herald
TOP CRITIC
In spite of an intelligent performance from Lee Marvin as the officer, director Robert Aldrich spins it out at such length that by the time the men actually get to France one has lost all interest.
November 20, 2020
David Wilson
Guardian
TOP CRITIC
The picture’s glorification of these swaggering, vicious criminals as heroes, its constant ridicule of discipline and authority and its depiction of the sadistic zeal with which the party goes about [killing] are grossly distasteful, sometimes revolting.
November 20, 2020
Myles Standish
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TOP CRITIC
An abundance of hilarious humor, injected by Mr. Aldrich, the star, Lee Marvin and the cast, is a blessed relief from the strain of gory details and grim aspects of war, fought by a mere handful of American on foreign soil.
November 19, 2020 | Rating: 4/4
Wanda Hale
New York Daily News
TOP CRITIC
An exciting war drama of World War II that will make the viewer cheer “the bad guys.”
May 4, 2022
Lee Steele
Toledo Blade
Notably absent any of the usual pieties about God and country or apple pie Americana, it is a thoroughly rotten picture in the most wonderful ways.
March 19, 2022
Sean Burns
Crooked Marquee
A well-directed and highly enjoyable movie which, as a whole, deserves the high crest of financial success it’s currently enjoying.
December 13, 2021
Walter Burrell
New Pittsburgh Courier
Robert Aldrich directs with great skill, but can’t conceal the spurious ethics and titillating violence.
November 20, 2020
Tom Milne
Observer (UK)
The Dirty Dozen is a powerful motion picture concerned with rugged men bent on a ruthless mission. The climactic sequence is revolting.
November 20, 2020
Dick Banks
Charlotte Observer
Is it possible to be seized by a melodrama strung up by its technical dexterity and hauled into a state of willing involvement without quite approving of the film in toe end?
November 20, 2020
Giles M. Fowler
Kansas City Star…
Plot
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.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The cast of The Dirty Dozen includes celebrated actors like Lee Marvin, Jim Brown, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, and Donald Sutherland.
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