The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 fictional war movie directed by Robert Aldrich from the novel by E.M. Nathanson . It stars Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Ernest Borgnine, Clint Walker, Robert Ryan, Al Mancini , Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez, Ralph Meeker , Robert Webber , Tom Busby , Ben Carruthers , Stuart Cooper and Colin Maitland .
Tagline: Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!
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The movie takes place during World War II. Twelve Allied soldiers, all imprisoned and facing sentences of death or long terms of imprisonment, are given the chance to go on a very risky mission. If they survive, their sentences will be set aside.
John Reisman (Marvin) is in charge of the mission. It is an assault on a chateau in Normandy, frequented by German officers. The mission is set to happen just prior to the D-Day invasion.
Also worth noting is war movie fixture Telly Savalas. He plays the highly religious, psychologically unstable Archer Maggot.
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