Product Information
A strike force of violent criminals are recruited to tackle one of the most bizarre and dangerous combat missions of World War II.Product Identifiers
EAN7321900650793
eBay Product ID (ePID)30481052
Product Key Features
ActorRichard Jaeckel, Charles Bronson, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, John Cassavetes, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin
Film/TV TitleThe Dirty Dozen
DirectorRobert Aldrich
FormatDVD
Release Year2005
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesFeaturette\Trailer, With Subtitles
GenreWar
Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Danish\English\French\German\Italian\Romanian\Spanish
Run Time143 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
Additional InformationAn all-star cast energizes Robert Aldrich's classic World War II action drama about a group of 12 American military prisoners assembled by tacticians and ordered to perform a suicide mission: infiltrate a well-guarded chateau and kill the Nazi officials staying there. The incarcerated soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, jump at the chance to redeem themselves. Major Reisman (Lee Marvin), the noncriminal in charge of the group, whips the men into a crack unit, uses them to best the troops of his by-the-book superior officer, Colonel Breed (Robert Ryan), in war games, then leads the steely antiheroes on their perilous assault.<BR>The film is studded with standout performances, including Telly Savalas as a religious psychopath with a febrile animosity toward Germans and John Cassavetes in an Oscar-nominated portrayal as an insubordinate, poison-tongued hothead. Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson, and football legend Jim Brown further round out the impressive collection of talent. Aldrich, who by the time of THE DIRTY DOZEN had been fathoming the darker side of life onscreen for more than a decade (KISS ME DEADLY, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE
Movie/TV TitleThe Dirty Dozen
Director of PhotographyEdward Scaife