The Dirty Dozen (Special Edition) (2-DVD)

Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!
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DVD Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 29 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 23, 2006
  • Originally Released: 1967
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Academy Awards 1967 - Best Sound Effects Editing: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 41,318
[I]t's a relentless work -- violent, funny and deeply cynical.
Uncut
Aug 1, 2004
Rating: 3/4 -- Right up to the last scene the movie is amusing, well paced, intelligent. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 24, 2004
Rating: 4/5 -- Slambang funny, and extremely violent for its time. Full Review
TV Guide
Aug 3, 2015
Overriding such nihilism is the super-crudity of Aldrich's energy and his humour, sufficiently cynical to suggest that the whole thing is a game anyway, a spectacle that demands an audience. Full Review
Time Out
Jan 26, 2006
One could, no doubt, if sufficiently determined, see all this as some deep, dark (in fact, practically subterranean) satire on the military mind. But there's precious little evidence of irony in Robert Aldrich's direction or the script. Full Review
The Spectator
Aug 3, 2015
It must just be taken as another violence-fantasy no better and no worse than a dozen others. Full Review
Esquire Magazine
Feb 10, 2019
A raw and preposterous glorification of a group of criminal soldiers who are trained to kill and who then go about this brutal business with hot, sadistic zeal is advanced in The Dirty Dozen, an astonishingly wanton war film. Full Review
New York Times
May 20, 2003

Description by OLDIES.com:

Often imitated, never bettered." -Charles Matthews, Oscar A To Z

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.

Product Description:

An all-star cast energizes Robert Aldrich's classic World War II action drama about a group of 12 American military prisoners assembled by tacticians and ordered to perform a suicide mission: infiltrate a well-guarded château and kill the Nazi officials vacationing there. The incarcerated soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, jump at the chance to redeem themselves. Major Reisman (Lee Marvin), the noncriminal in charge of the group, whips the men into a crack unit, uses them to best the troops of his by-the-book superior officer, Colonel Breed (Robert Ryan), in war games, then leads the steely antiheroes on their perilous assault.

The film is studded with standout performances, including Telly Savalas as a religious psychopath with a febrile animosity toward Germans and John Cassavetes in an Oscar-nominated portrayal as an insubordinate, poison-tongued hothead. Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson, and football legend Jim Brown further round out the impressive collection of talent. Aldrich, who by the time of THE DIRTY DOZEN had been fathoming the darker side of life onscreen for more than a decade (KISS ME DEADLY, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE'), scored a huge hit with this rousing thriller laced with a stinging cynicism perfectly in tune with the increasingly skeptical tenor of the times.

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  • Sales Rank: 128,105
  • UPC: 012569679214
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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