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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.
US army Major John Reisman, based in London, is an inventive man who often thinks outside the box which causes many problems in the structured military. But it is because of this mentality that in March 1944, he is assigned, or as his superiors put it volunteers for a near suicide mission. Prior to the Allied forces invading continental Europe, he and his team, who he will train personally with Sergeant Bowren as his second in command, will infiltrate a highly fortified and guarded French château being used by the Nazis as respite house and meeting place primarily for high ranking German officers, kill as many of the officers as possible and take out the communications tower. His squad will consist of twelve of the most heavily sentenced GI convicts, many whose sentence is death. Reisman, who doesn't like the assignment because of the involvement of the convicts, adds one caveat to doing this job: that the convicts have their sentences commuted if they survive. Reisman quickly learns that besides a resentment to authority, the twelve convicts are a disparate group, each with their own button issues and motivations. Reisman not only has to get them to cooperate, but work as a team, which includes having a zero tolerance policy for the group as a whole on issues such as escape attempts while under his command. Even if he can achieve these goals, Reisman also faces the obstacle of Colonel Everett Breed, who is the antithesis of Reisman and who will be at the parachute training base at the same time as Reisman's squad, for which Breed has disdain.
I've seen this movie several times. It really is a "man"-movie, tough and all. However its attitude is very disturbing. The allied soldiers are a bunch of crooks (were they??) who are sent to Europe to kill german officers and their wifes (!) at a recreation center. Well, someone who calls himself a soldier fights on the battlefield for one thing. I'm not saying the allies were not crooks, but the glorification of that is very perverse. After having read the book of german officer Otto Skorzeny (he freed Mussolini from a mountain retreat in an operation that would make Lee Marvin look like a first grader) "My command operations" I threw the dirty-dozen-tape into the garbage can. NOT because we are the "bad-guys" in this movie, but because the attitude of the movie is so very wrong. Real life Skorzeny gave out the order to his crew: "no shot is fired unless you hear ME shoot" and he did not use his gun during, e.g., the entire daredevil Mussolini-operation. That was how the "real-life-good-guys" handled these things. So maybe you can understand that the dirty-dozen-massacre-movie is in a way both very pathetic and evil.
This is one of the many WWII fantasy movies to come out of the 60's where a small group of American soldiers massacres Nazi's by the millions to win some mission or the other. Others include "Where Eagles Dare", and "Kelley's Heroes". The actors are quite good, and the premise is interesting, but the way its carried out and scripted is completely unrealistic, silly and downright cheesy. That's why they're fantasy movies, as there's no connection to reality in any movies in this genre.<br/><br/>This is really on par with "Lord of the Rings", except instead of slaughtering Orcs by the millions, they're slaughtering Nazi's. Some prefer Elves and swords, others prefer GI's and machine guns, but its all the same. So, if you like to see wacky American misfits killing Nazi's like its no tomorrow while delivering one snappy liners, then this is the flick for you. Otherwise, I would skip it and watch "Three Kings" or "Black Hawk Down" which are far superior war movies.
It is overlong, uneven and frequently obscure, but will succeed by virtue of its sustained action, even though what it attempts to say, if anything, remains elusive.
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 officers as a rest house, kill as many Germans as possible, 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, dressed as an 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 shafts as quickly as possible, 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 serving as lookouts, 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 known as the 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." a5c7b9f00b

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