The Dirty Dozen
The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin with an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker and Robert Webber. Set in 1944 during World War II, the film follows the titular penal military unit of twelve convicts as they are trained as commandos by the Allies for a suicide mission ahead of the Normandy landings.
Plot
In March 1944, OSS officer Major John Reisman is ordered by the commander of ADSEC in Britain, Major General Sam Worden, to undertake "Project Amnesty", a top secret mission to train some of the U.S. Army's worst convicts into highly-skilled commandos to eliminate Wehrmacht officers at a château near Rennes, disrupting the German chain of command in northern France ahead of D-Day. If any of the convicts survive, they will be pardoned.
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author | Lukas Heller Nunnally Johnson |
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award | Academy Award for Best Sound Editing |
contentLocation | Brittany United Kingdom |
director | Robert Aldrich |
editor | Michael Luciano |
events | World War II |
genre | western |
keywords | 101st airborne division adsec bomb shelter chain of command château condemn d-day end exonerate force france german officer hard labor kill lock military exercise military police military police corps military prison northern france office of strategic services officer os parachute pardon project a rennes secret mission shave survive top secret training camp u.s. army war game war games wehrmacht |
musicBy | Frank De Vol |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Sound Editing Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
producer | Kenneth Hyman |
productionCompany | Kenneth Hyman |
publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
theme | war |