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The Dirty Dozen

1967

Robert Aldrich

Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Ernest Borgnine ...

7.7

39,597

War An Army Major who likes to butt heads with his superiors, is being "given" a new assignment, to train 12 men who are either sentenced to death or life imprisonment, to go behind enemy lines raid a chateau that the Germans are using as an R&R center and kill as enemy officers as they can and disrupt the German chain of command. Now he not only has to train them; he has to get them to start acting like a unit. And when a Colonel whom the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie is amusing, well paced, intelligent (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Robert Aldrich dissects the underlying ideas with just enough craft and thoughtfulness to make the implications of this gritty 1966 war drama unsettling"	POS
United States	John Mahoney The Hollywood Reporter	"It is overlong, uneven and frequently obscure, but will succeed by virtue of its sustained action, even though what it attempts to say, if anything, remains elusive"	NEU
United Kingdom	Empire	"Unarguably one of the great war movies of all time"	POS
United States	Cindy White IGN	"It's pretty cheesy. But the action scenes are pretty solid and the sheer badassedness of the cast accounts for a lot (...) It still remains relevant today."	POS
United States	Variety	"Marvin delivers a top performance (...) John Cassavetes is firstrate (...) Charles Bronson stands out"	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Sloman Radio Times	"Whatever your tastes, there's no denying director Robert Aldrich's consummate skill with such material or the powerhouse impact of the starry all-male cast headed by Lee Marvin (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	BBC	"As the film progresses it is watching the various members of the dozen redeeming themselves in some way that is one of the film's strengths (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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