The Dirty Dozen
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. From TMDB
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60 of 174 · most liked firstwatching THE DIRTY DOZEN for the first time in years and god does this movie rule.
unlabelledView post →2009 INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Tarantino) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ Pleased to discover what had been marketed as a dumb gloss on The Dirty Dozen was instead a punchy deconstruction of war film, audiences that consume it, and crimes demanding redress. Tarantino often swings big—this time he tosses the rules and connects.
unlabelledView post →Born 3 Nov 1921, actor Charles Bronson had a tough-guy on screen persona & is best known for many action & vigilante movies. The Magnificent 7, The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen & Hard Times are some of his notable films. Death Wish was his most popular film & it led to 4 sequels. #CharlesBronson
unlabelledView post →Heavy on the Bronson this week. Love and Bullets (1979) Death Wish (1974) The Dirty Dozen (1967) Kelly’s Heroes (1970) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky
unlabelledView post →I watch The Dirty Dozen once a year because it's a good movie.
unlabelledView post →What, Spinal Tap goes to 11. Also, most people think next is 12 angry men, but, no, it is The Dirty Dozen (Some think it is Cheaper by the Dozen, but that is a different movie series, starting with one flew over the cuckoos nest)
unlabelledView post →It always feels a little weird when AMC plays THE DIRTY DOZEN on Veteran's Day because star Lee Marvin, who saw brutal action in WWII, hated the movie and called it "Unrealistic crap." It's like my Vietnam vet friends going to similar movies just to laugh at the bullshit.
unlabelledView post →For my money, I would love to see a Wookie-centric, subtitled, all-Shryiiwook movie about the Wookiee revolt. Like, The Dirty Dozen x The 13th Warrior x Wookiees. And a Star Wars horror movie, with the Ewoks as the bloodthirsty antagonists.
unlabelledView post →Thursday movie: The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission (1985) *½
unlabelledView post →THE DIRTY DOZEN, a WWII movie set in the 1960s. (It kills me to see the 1960s hairstyles and costumes 😆). But I still love this movie! #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched “Only cops with fast fists and fiery 45's answer “POLICE-CALL 9000!” Whatever the Dirty Dozen did they do it dirtier!" "The first international martial arts movie sensation "They're at the rebel point...And there's no turning back"
unlabelledView post →also dad movies and movies with a lot of guys are related but not the same category Eg Tombstone is the latter (so is Aliens, Predator, etc) but I don't think it's automatically the former The only film that is clearly in both categories is The Dirty Dozen
unlabelledView post →Rewatch complete with my internet twin of Sammo’s most intense and mean spirited action movie. Huge ensemble cast with Yuen Biao once again is the coolest effortlessly steeling the movie. Full contact fight scenes and back breaking stunts highlight this HK take on The Dirty Dozen.
unlabelledView post →Donald Sutherland’s death has led me to watch The Dirty Dozen for the first time. Good lord, that cast. And Lee Marvin. What a force.
unlabelledView post →- Saving Private Ryan - Fury - The Big Red One - Force Ten From Navarone (it is a sequel to The Guns of Navarone, which is also great) - The Dirty Dozen - Patton - Memphis Belle - Victory (While no Nazi’s are killed in the movie watching them get humiliated is nice) It is sometimes called “Escape to Victory”.
unlabelledView post →Remember the old movie “The Dirty Dozen”? That’s what we need to do
unlabelledView post →Hud, The Color of Money, The Dirty Dozen, BlackBerry, Wrath of Man, and this overlooked gem from a couple of years ago: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bloo...
unlabelledView post →Trump is crazy, but my experience is that most leaders just can't resist the siren song of shit they saw in a movie. This isn't even the most egregious case, which is probably still South Korea's Unit 684 the year after The Dirty Dozen came out.
unlabelledView post →The second part of my appearance on the Dirty Dozen Movie Podcast is about Powell & Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death. Which is really not anything like a Baby Assassins movie at all.
unlabelledView post →I'm 72 and had uptight Irish-Catholic parents. Media arriving in the home was very much G-rated. My mom even forbade us seeing movies the weekly Catholic paper "condemned." Couldn't go to Boing Boing, the Dirty Dozen, or Goldfinger. Snuck out to see the St Valentine's Day Massacre instead. 🤪
unlabelledView post →#RIP Donald Sutherland, Star of ‘MASH,’ ‘Klute,’ ‘Animal House,’ and ‘The Dirty Dozen,’ Dies at 88 variety.com/2024/film/ne...
unlabelledView post →Watching "The Dirty Dozen." this afternoon, was wanting to watch a #Movie I haven't watched that often so watching one of my favorite classic films. #Filmsky Loved this bit with one of the Prisoners Impersonating a General lol "I'd rather be a Civilian Sir." lol btw I love the Band Music here.
unlabelledView post →I rewatched THE DIRTY DOZEN recently and it reminded me that the concept for that film was inspired by the story "The Filthy Thirteen" by Arch Whitehouse in TRUE, Oct. 1944, which we reprinted in the MEN'S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #5, the Dirty Missions issue (amzn.to/4jWMvyU). Cover art by Rico Tomaso.
unlabelledView post →This is why Rogue One for all its flaws remains the best post-Disney SW movie: it was The Dirty Dozen _and_ The Guns of Navarone _and_ Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman and it was not remotely subtle about what it was riffing on!
unlabelledView post →Happy LBF! Babygirl (2024) The Dirty Dozen (1967) Tom Horn (1980) Violent Saturday (1955) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky 🎬🍿📽️
unlabelledView post →The Dirty Dozen was actually based on this, but the cowards in Hollywood changed it to a war movie
unlabelledView post →Rewatching THE DIRTY DOZEN reminded me…the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #5 (amzn.to/3RzoQFk) reprints the story from TRUE, Oct. 1944 paratroopers who were the real-life inspiration for that movie. They were initially called the "Dirty Dozen" until they added a member, then became "The Filthy Thirteen."
unlabelledView post →In 1967, there was no rating system. My mom took me (8), sister (10) and brother (7) to see The Dirty Dozen because she thought we would enjoy a good war movie. In retrospect, Dr. Doolittle might have been better.
unlabelledView post →Just once, l would like someone responding to one of those red carpet questions from @letterboxd.social about their four favourite films of all time, to say THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967), a western, or a Hammer horror film.
unlabelledView post →It’s just telling that someone like Spielberg — for all his flaws — can make a half dozen World War Two movies alone, and they don’t have a lot in common. Tarantino can only imagine one WW2 movie, and it’s a mashup between THE DIRTY DOZEN and a cheesy Italian remake of THE DIRTY DOZEN.
unlabelledView post →The Dirty Dozen has a very cathartic finale, nearly on the level of the cinema fire from Inglorious Basterds.
unlabelledView post →Also Lee Marvin thought the Dirty Dozen sucked & everyone was too old (presumably his character was promoted to major for the movie adaptation because a white-haired captain would look silly)
unlabelledView post →Realized part of the reason I like the DEN OF THIEVES movies is that they're structurally a lot like old school action movies like THE DIRTY DOZEN. Less throwing big set pieces at you constantly and more building up to a big sequence or two that takes up the last big chunk of the movie.
unlabelledView post →It was a reference to The Dirty Dozen, where their characters raid a Nazi conference. And kill Nazis. Great movie.
unlabelledView post →THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PERSONNEL REMIND ME OF THE MOVIE FROM BACK IN THE DAY THE DIRTY DOZEN... THEY WERE GOOD AT THEIR JOBS AND GOT THE JOB DONE IN THE MOVIE BUT THIS GROUP OF JOKERS.. ARE AN ABSOLUTE LOST CAUSE... THEY WILL SUCCEED AT NOTHING EXCEPT FAILURE AND THEIR OWN DOOM😳
unlabelledView post →thinking of watching the Dirty Dozen, was told once it was the only film where adult men watching it are allowed to cry - true story.
unlabelledView post →Next thing you know, Trump is going to sign executive orders to re-establish The Dirty Dozen, The Magnificent Seven, and rebuild The Bridge on the River Kwai, or whatever else is playing on the late, late movie.
unlabelledView post →Tonight on TCM #TCM THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967) Robert Aldritch's movie changed action films forever. An incredible cast featuring Lee Marvin, Jim Brown, Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaekal, and more. Recommended. "Killin' generals could get to be a habit with me." 🎥
unlabelledView post →Coincidentally, I watched the Dirty Dozen for the first time a couple weeks ago. That movie has some problems (alarmingly glib treatment of sexual violence, the casual execution of a bunch of Nazis and civilians) but a very young Donald is delightful, particularly when he’s irritating Lee Marvin.
unlabelledView post →Really was brilliant to slap The Dirty Dozen template onto a Star Wars movie.
unlabelledView post →I met Richard Jaeckel once, outside the Brattle Theater in Cambridge while waiting in line to buy tickets for a matinee showing of LA STRADA. Nice guy. He seemed tickled that knew so many of his credits. He was superb in SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION. THE DIRTY DOZEN remains my favorite war film.
unlabelledView post →The bunker-ballroom idea makes me think of the scene in the movie The Dirty Dozen where they trap all the NAZIS in a wine cellar and blow the place to kingdom come. No place is completely safe.
unlabelledView post →The Dirty Dozen. King of this type of movie.
unlabelledView post →In memory of the legendary Ernest Borgnine, Oscar-winning & Emmy-nominated actor and Navy veteran on his 109th birthday, beloved for his work in film, television, theatre, and voice, for roles in MARTY, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK, THE DIRTY DOZEN, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, and more.
unlabelledView post →Morning #clz collection shake Justice League of America #66, 1968 Cover art by Neal Adams #comics #comicbooks #nealadams The film The Dirty Dozen was released in June, 1967, one year before this issue's publication
unlabelledView post →And my take on The Dirty Dozen @film-authority.bsky.social cinephiliabeyond.org/the-dirty-do...
unlabelledView post →Remembering film icon and The Dirty Dozen star, Trini Lopez, on the anniversary of his date of birth. . R.I.P. (1937 - 2020)
unlabelledView post →Born on this day January 21 in 1922, Telly Savalas had an amazing career in film & television. Best known for his role as Kojak, Savalas also appeared in 3 of The Dirty Dozen movies (as two vey different characters) “Who loves you, baby?” We did Telly. We still do.
unlabelledView post →Just watched The Dirty Dozen for the thousandth time. Psychotic, cynical, hateful, film. I’m very fond of it.
unlabelledView post →Appreciate that the men get to show a little emotion over a movie too. And The Dirty Dozen is great. #SleeplessInSesttle #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →Archer Maggott from The Dirty Dozen legitimately makes me uncomfortable in a non-parody sense. Like otherwise the film is a buddy comedy, but oh yeah, here’s a literal rapist to spice things up.
unlabelledView post →Me: I hate when comic book movie nerds see an actor and the first thing that do is fancast them as a superhero Also Me, rewatching THE DIRTY DOZEN for the first time in forever: How did they not fast track a Superman movie with Clint Walker back in the ‘60s ffs??
unlabelledView post →I generally enjoy movies that are stereotypically thought of as “manly.” I love Die Hard, Butch Cassidy, Total Recall, The Godfather, Saving Private Ryan and The Dirty Dozen. But dang it, this movie is a masterpiece and I won’t hear otherwise. I also like the song. #TCMParty #TheWayWeWere
unlabelledView post →World War II was not the Dirty Dozen. He knows nothing about history so he should stay the fuck away from it. His best films were somebody else's work (the first two and Jackie Brown especially). The guy is a tool. Who the fuck has their first film open on their own yapping FACE???
unlabelledView post →21 November 1920 – 1988 Ralph Meeker, (b. Rathgeber), 67, US actor. Broadway: Mister Roberts (1948–51) Picnic (1953) Film: Jeopardy (1953) * Kiss Me Deadly * Paths of Glory * The Dirty Dozen * The Anderson Tapes * Night Stalker * The Dead Don't Die * Food of the Gods * Winter Kills (1979)
unlabelledView post →I have been writing about film for the last three weeks straight and the only thing between me and being done is proofreading a paper on The Dirty Dozen… and writing an 8 page script about Super Mario Bros. (1993)
unlabelledView post →A common thread in millennial #milsky PME is using “The Dirty Dozen” film clips to show the importance of rehearsals, having everyone call out each step, and everyone knowing the plan. “Where’s Donald Duck?” “Donald Duck is across the way with a machine gun.”
unlabelledView post →Inglourious Basterds is the best anecdotal equivalent we can think of for how Canada treated prisoners in WWII. The hunt for Nazis was inspired by the movie The Inglorious Bastards, inspired by the movie The Dirty Dozen, inspired by the real-life Filthy Thirteen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filthy_...
unlabelledView post →Watching a good heist films is like watching a Rube Goldberg machine in slow motion #FridayThrillerClub #TheDirtyDozen
unlabelledView post →today i learned: the two opposing factions of action figures depicted in the 1998 film Small Soldiers were both cast based on previous films the Commando Elites were mostly cast members from The Dirty Dozen (1967) and the Gorgonites were all cast members from This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
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