Dirty Dozen [Blu-ray] (WSE)

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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.

Bonus movie The Dirty Dozen: Next MissionCommentary by cast members Jim Brown, Trini Lopez, Stuart Cooper, and Colin Maitland, producer Kenneth Hyman, original novelist E.M. Nathanson, film historian David J. Schow and the Veteran Military Advisor to Movies Capt. Dale DyeIntroduction by Ernest Borgnine2 exiting new documentaries: Armed and Deadly: The Making of The Dirty DozenThe Filthy Thirteen: Real Stories From Behind the LinesMarine Corps Combat Leadership Skills: vintage recruitment documentary featuring Lee MarvinVintage featurette Operation Dirty DozenSoundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1Theatrical trailer.

Bonus movie The Dirty Dozen: Next MissionCommentary by cast members Jim Brown, Trini Lopez, Stuart Cooper, and Colin Maitland, producer Kenneth Hyman, original novelist E.M. Nathanson, film historian David J.