The Dirty Dozen [HD DVD]

The Dirty Dozen [HD DVD] Review

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I love this movie. My Mon took me to see it along with 10 or so friends. I was 8 years old. Lots of violence, guns and explosions. Even the bad Americans are the good guys, the Nazis are the bad guys. All very politically incorrect stuff. The hanging scene, Marvin kicking Cassavetes ass, Telly Savalas perving out, Sutherland impersonating the general, Jim Brown dropping hand grenades onto evil gasoline soaked Nazi people trapped in a cellar, Brown's almost making it to the giant half track - and getting shot by a sniper using an INFRARED scope ... these are the coolest, best, funniest scenes in the history of film - at least for a 8 year old in 1967.

After the movie we went to the park and played Army. I had a steel toggle action full size toy cap-gun Luger. The thing would get a kid shot these days - it looked very real. I also had a plastic .45 caliber Thompson SMG like Tom Hanks used in "Saving Private Ryan." When you pulled the trigger it made a gun sound. (I liked it because the Sgt. in the TV show "Combat" used it. And if "Combat" was not a "QUINN-MARTIN PRODUCTION," well it should have been.)

At the park we ran up and down the side of a pine straw covered hill. Somehow in our imaginary battlefield, sliding down the hill on the pine straw made perfect sense.

And then hot dogs cooked over charcoal, and lots of cake and ice cream.

Perfect movie.

Perfect day.

Five stars for both.

The Dirty Dozen [HD DVD] Feature

The Dirty Dozen [HD DVD] Overview

A group of conscripted convicts, most already destined for death row, are drafted to go on a near-suicide mission with the understanding that if the Nazis don't kill them, the U.S. Army won't, either. In the hands of hardboiled director Robert Aldrich and a tough-as-leather cast headed by Lee Marvin (as a troublesome U.S. Army major), that's all the plot that's needed to make one rip-roaring World War II action flick. Marvin's mission is two-fold: first turn his dozen prisoners into a fighting unit and then turn them loose on a French chateau occupied by partying German officers. His crime-minded charges include John Cassavetes as a chronic malcontent, Telly Savalas as a ready-to-blow psycho, Donald Sutherland as a lame-brained lummox, and Charles Bronson and then-just-retired NFL superstar Jim Brown as a couple of clutch performers. The first half of the film allows the colorful cast of character actors to have their fun as they get their tails whipped into shape and develop shaky bonds with their commander. The second part is all action, as the culprit commandos wreck havoc and then run for their lives. Despite the fact that few of the "heroes" survive the bloodbath, the message here isn't that war is hell. Rather, it seems to be: war can be a hell of a good time... if you've got nothing to lose. --Steven Stolder

The Dirty Dozen [HD DVD] Specifications

Twelve jailbirds will earn their freedom...if they survive a suicide mission against the Nazi brass. Tough-as-nails Lee Marvin leads a nothing-to-lose convict squad of Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker and more in the all-time action trendsetter.






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SuperSixties Classic, But... - Rob - Texas
The Dirty Dozen deserves all it's superlatives. It ran for weeks and weeks back when theaters had ONE screen. Lee Marvin was a big star before it, but this made him a SuperStar for years. Not having seen it for several years, I was impressed with Charles Bronson as he is virtually the second lead in the film. He had to turn down The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly for this, so all was most definitely not lost. He even gets the last line! My other favorite actor in the movie is Clint Walker, which brings up a problem with the script, editing, or whatever. What happens to him??? I watched carefully this time in the climactic battle and there's still no death scene! His picture and name shows up at the end with the roll call of those KIA, but where's the body? An explanation is in order! So, I guess I'll have to fill in the blanks: Posey is wounded and assumed dead by the remaining Dirty Dozen who under duress of fire leave the Chateau and make it back to friendly lines. At the time of their convalescence, Posey is still listed as KIA. Unknown to them, the friendly French staff of destroyed chateau has found him and hidden him with the French Resistance. As the Allies advance through France, he eventually rejoins the Army and restored to his former rank. Oh yeah, he also later marries the beautiful French girl who nursed him back to health!

Movie for Father`s 89th Birthday - Sandra Merz -
My Father-in-law has been looking for this movie "The Dirty Dozen" and hasn`t been able to find it anywhere so he mentioned it to us and I went right to Amazon.com and ordered it.A done deal. I`ll have to say we did go to Best Buy first but they didn`t have it. I promise next time I want something I`ll just go to Amazon first. He loves the movie and I bet he lets us watch it too.
Thank You
Sandra Merz
Phoenix, Arizona