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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, War Violence Movie Release: 1967 DVD Release: 11/07/2000 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Studio: Creative Design Art Members Wishing: 4 Genres: War, War Adventure, Ensemble Film See Also: The Dirty Dozen [Widescreen], The Dirty Dozen [Widescreen], The Dirty Dozen, The Dirty Dozen [Special Edition], The Dirty Dozen [HD DVD], The Dirty Dozen [Blu-ray]

Director Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by Lukas Heller and Nunnally Johnson and fashioned The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s--and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, assigned to coordinate a suicide mission on a French chateau held by top Nazi officers. Since no "normal" GI can be expected to volunteer for this mission, Reisman is compelled to draw his personnel from a group of military prisoners serving life sentences. This "dirty dozen" includes a sex pervert (Telly Savalas), a psycho (John Cassavetes), a retarded killer (Donald Sutherland), and the equally malevolent Charles Bronson, Trini Lopez, Jim Brown, and Clint Walker. On the dim promise of receiving pardons if they survive, the criminals undergo a brutal training program, then are marched behind enemy lines dressed as Nazi soldiers, the better to overtake the chateau and kill everyone in it--including the innocent wives and mistresses of the German officers. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Lee Marvin - Maj. Reisman
Ernest Borgnine - Gen. Worden
Charles Bronson - Joseph Wladislaw
Jim Brown - Robert Jefferson
John Cassavetes - Victor Franko
George Kennedy - Maj. Max Armbruster
Richard Jaeckel - Sgt. Bowren

This special edition release of the classic war adventure movie serves up the picture with all the bells and whistles. The Dirty Dozen has been transferred to disc in letterboxed format at the widescreen aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and the audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Surround. Viewers may choose between the original English soundtrack and a dubbed version in French, while optional subtitles in English, French, and Spanish have also been included. The disc has been stocked with an impressive array of extras, including a new introduction from Ernest Borgnine, a documentary on the making of the film, the original theatrical trailer, production notes, and a trivia section. This edition also comes with deluxe packaging, including a reproduction of the movie's original lobby poster, sets of lobby cards and black-and-while still photos, and a film frame taken from a print of the movie, along with a blow-up of the frame image. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide