The Dirty Dozen poster
Director Robert Aldrich
Screenplay Lukas Heller, Nunnally Johnson

The Dirty Dozen

Tagline: Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!

Release Date: 1967-06-15

Duration: 149 minutes

Synopsis

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.

Casting

  • Donald Sutherland
    Vernon Pinkley
  • Rocky Taylor
    Airborne Soldier (uncredited)
  • Charles Bronson
    Joseph Wladislaw
  • Lee Marvin
    Maj. John Reisman
  • Ernest Borgnine
    Maj. Gen. Worden
  • Richard Jaeckel
    Sergeant Bowren
  • George Kennedy
    Major Max Armbruster
  • Telly Savalas
    Archer Maggott
  • John Cassavetes
    Victor Franko
  • Richard Marner
    German Sentry at Chateau (uncredited)