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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569793958
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Running Time: 149 minutes
Sales Rank: 15257
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 1967
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Warner Brothers The Dirty Dozen (Blu-ray)
They are convicts, psychos, lunkheads, losers - and champs at the box office and in movie lore. Decades after it burst onto the scene, 'The Dirty Dozen' remains a milestone among ensemble action flicks. Lee Marvin portrays a tough-as-nails major volunteered in the Army way to command a squad of misfits on a suicide mission against Nazi brass. Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland and Clint Walker are among the 12 jailbirds who will earn their freedom if they survive. And Robert Aldrich ('The Longest Yard') directs, blending anti-authority gibes with explosive excitement. Nominated for four Academy Awards, 'The Dirty Dozen' won for Best Sound Effects.
Amazon.com:
A model for dozens of action films to follow, this box-office hit from 1967 refined a die-hard formula that has become overly familiar, but it's rarely been handled better than it was in this action-packed World War II thriller. Lee Marvin is perfectly cast as a down-but-not-out army major who is offered a shot at personal and professional redemption. If he can successfully train and discipline a squad of army rejects, misfits, killers, prisoners, and psychopaths into a first-rate unit of specialized soldiers, they'll earn a second chance to make up for their woeful misdeeds. Of course, there's a catch: to obtain their pardons, Marvin's band of badmen must agree to a suicide mission that will parachute them into the danger zone of Nazi-occupied France. It's a hazardous path to glory, but the men have no other choice than to accept and regain their lost honor. What makes The Dirty Dozen special is its phenomenal cast including Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, George Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, Jim Brown, Clint Walker, Trini Lopez, Robert Ryan, and others. Cassavetes is the Oscar-nominated standout as one of Marvin's most rebellious yet heroic men, but it's the whole ensemble--combined with the hard-as-nails direction of Robert Aldrich--that makes this such a high-velocity crowd pleaser. The script by Nunnally Johnson and Lukas Heller (from the novel by E.M. Nathanson) is strong enough to support the all-star lineup with ample humor and military grit, so if you're in need of a mainline jolt of testosterone, The Dirty Dozen is the movie for you. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - I've always prefered The Devil's Brigade
I remember seeing this film when it originally played in the theaters in the summer of 1967 (the same summer as my favorite Bond Film, You Only Live Twice.) While I liked it a lot, especially the performances of Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, who I was already a big fan of from "The Great Escape" and "Battle of the Bulge," I was never that thrilled with the action sequences. I much preferred "The Devil's Brigade," which was a much more exciting film, much larger in scale and actually had some ... Read More
Rating:  - THE DIRTY DOZEN is not a great film.
Let's set the record straight. THE DIRTY DOZEN is not a great film, not even a great WW II flick. It is a fantasy on every level, from Donald Sutherland masquerading as a visiting general inspecting the troops to the impossible insubordination of the "dirty dozen" belting other G.I's and holding their commander at bay with machine guns. How about Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson passing themselves off as real Germans at a
Nazi chateau party without being detected. Or Lee Marvin, again, firing ... Read More
Rating:  - The Dirty Dozen
This is an excellent WWII movie. It has a marvelous cast and the characters are all "fleshed out". You know who and what they are. I have watched it numerous times on TV, and decided I needed it for my collection. Highly recommended.
Rating: - Great movie, good transfer
This is a great movie, and probably the best it has ever looked. Given the age of the source material, I'm guessing it would be almost impossible to get a better transfer than what they have here. The sound quality is decent, too, assuming the same issues.
Rating: - Not as good as the book
If you simply want to watch an average WWII movie, this is as good a choice as any. Lee Marvin does a good job and there is nothing really wrong with the movie. But I read the book when I was younger and it is MUCH better.
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