Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 149 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- mission
- based on novel or book
- nazi
- secret mission
- world war ii
- castle
- hand grenade
- training
- us army
- fistfight
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Lee Marvin
Maj. John Reisman
Ernest Borgnine
Maj. Gen. Worden
Charles Bronson
Joseph Wladislaw
Jim Brown
Robert Jefferson
- John Cassavetes — Victor Franko
- Richard Jaeckel — Sergeant Bowren
- George Kennedy — Major Max Armbruster
- Trini López — Pedro Jiminez
- Ralph Meeker — Captain Stuart Kinder
- Robert Ryan — Col. Everett Dasher Breed
- Telly Savalas — Archer Maggott
- Donald Sutherland — Vernon Pinkley
- Clint Walker — Samson Posey
- Robert Webber — General Denton
- Tom Busby — Milo Vladek
- Directed
- Robert Aldrich
- Written
- Lukas Heller, Nunnally Johnson
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 1,339 ratings
- Studio
- Seven Arts Pictures, MKH, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1967 · You’re hereThe Dirty Dozen
Where it starts.
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
1985
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
1988
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
