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== Other information ==
== Other information ==

Jim Brown announced his retirement from professional football during the filming of this movie.


For its time, the film was an unconventional and extremely violent depiction of war. [[Roger Ebert]], in his first year as a movie critic for the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'', was shocked by its violence. He wrote (sarcastically):
For its time, the film was an unconventional and extremely violent depiction of war. [[Roger Ebert]], in his first year as a movie critic for the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'', was shocked by its violence. He wrote (sarcastically):

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The Dirty Dozen
File:The Dirty Dozen movie.png
Tagline: Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!
Directed byRobert Aldrich
Written byE.M. Nathanson (novel)
Nunnally Johnson
Lukas Heller
Produced byKenneth Hyman
StarringLee Marvin
Ernest Borgnine
Charles Bronson
Jim Brown
Music byFrank De Vol
Distributed byMGM
Release dates
June 15, 1967
Running time
145 min.
LanguagesEnglish
French
German
This article is about the well-known movie; Dirty Dozen may also refer to the rap group D12.

The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 war film directed by Robert Aldrich from the novel by E.M. Nathanson. Starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, and NFL Hall of Famer turned actor Jim Brown, it was a huge box office success for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the year's high-grossing film. It was nominated for four Oscars, including a supporting actor nomination for John Cassavetes, and won one Oscar for its sound effects. In 2001, the American Film Institute included it on its list of 100 Years...100 Thrills.

Template:Spoiler The movie takes place during World War II, not long before D-Day. Twelve Allied soldiers, all imprisoned and several facing sentences of death, are given the chance to go on a very risky mission. If they survive, their sentences will be set aside.

Major John Reisman (Marvin) an outspoken US Army officer, already viewed unfavourably by his superiors, is "volunteered" to take command of the mission, in which his team is to assault and destroy a chateau in Normandy, frequented by German officers, and kill all occupants. The mission is set to take place just prior to the D-Day invasion, as the chateau is frequented by German officers on leave from their units.

The soldiers don't take kindly to Reisman's tough training regime, and some try to sabotage it, but eventually they start to work as a team and prove that they're ready for anything. The mission goes ahead, and the chateau is assaulted. Most of the occupants are killed when the building is blown up. Only Reisman, Sergeant Bowren, and one of the Dirty Dozen, Wladislaw (Bronson), survive the mission.

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For its time, the film was an unconventional and extremely violent depiction of war. Roger Ebert, in his first year as a movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, was shocked by its violence. He wrote (sarcastically):

I'm glad the Chicago Police Censor Board forgot about that part of the local censorship law where it says films shall not depict the burning of the human body. If you have to censor, stick to censoring sex, I say. ... But leave in the mutilation, leave in the sadism, and by all means leave in the human beings burning to death. It's not obscene as long as they burn to death with their clothes on.

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