Robert Aldrich's great war film "The Dirty Dozen" wasn't the first men-on-a-mission movie, but it is generally held up today at the apotheosis of the form. The tale of the U.S. Army's most vicious convicts getting assigned to a suicide mission deep behind enemy lines during World War II, with the promise of a pardon should they survive, is stocked with the toughest of the tough guys of the late 1960s. Lee Marvin heads up the brass-knuckle ensemble as the no-nonsense Major John Reisman, who's stuck with the unenviable task of shaping up a unit of anti-authoritarian malcontents or straight-up psychopaths. With troublemakers and nose-breakers like Charles Bronson, George Kennedy, Jim Brown, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, and John Cassavetes along for the ride, "The Dirty Dozen" became more than just the perfect "men-on-a-mission" movie: it was the ultimate guy flick.
We call them "Dad Movies" nowadays. They're the...
We call them "Dad Movies" nowadays. They're the...
- 3/19/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
David Ayer once referred to Suicide Squad as "Dirty Dozen with supervillains," so it's no surprise that the director is now setting his sights on the action classic. According to Deadline, Ayer is slated to write and direct a contemporary remake of The Dirty Dozen for Warner Bros. [Seemore] The original 1967 film starred Lee Marvin as Maj. John Reisman, an Oss…...
- 12/16/2019
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Okay, yes, "The Expendables," ended up being better as an "idea" than a reality. Sylvester Stallone gathered a bunch of over-the-hill action stars (including his "Rocky IV" opponent, Dolph Lundgren, and his "Get Carter" pal, Mickey Rourke) for a bloody shoot-'em-up designed to show all the young whippersnappers out there that the old men still got it. The resulting film had its moments but was ultimately too confusing, too haphazard and too, well, expendable.
But what are sequels for if not a chance to make things all better (don't answer that)? Stallone has gathered an even more impressive cast for "The Expendables 2" -- Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme will be contributing to the mayhem this time around, and Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, both of whom only had cameo appearances in the original film, will have much larger roles in the new adventure. And, of course, all of the old gang is back,...
But what are sequels for if not a chance to make things all better (don't answer that)? Stallone has gathered an even more impressive cast for "The Expendables 2" -- Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme will be contributing to the mayhem this time around, and Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, both of whom only had cameo appearances in the original film, will have much larger roles in the new adventure. And, of course, all of the old gang is back,...
- 9/15/2011
- by IFC
- ifc.com
Article by Jim Batts, Dana Jung, and Tom Stockman
We’re celebrating one of Hollywood’s great tough guys and one of our favorite actors September 6th at The Way Out Club in St. Louis with Super-8 Lee Marvin Movie Madness.
Lee Marvin rose through the ranks of movie stardom as a character actor, delivering mostly villainous supporting turns in many films before finally graduating to leading roles. Regardless of which side of the law he was on however, he projected a tough-as-nails intensity and a two-fisted integrity which elevated even the slightest material. Born February 19, 1924, in New York City, Marvin quit high school to enter the Marine Corps and while serving in the South Pacific was badly wounded in battle when a machine gun nest shot off part of his buttocks and severed his sciatic nerve. He spent a year in recovery before returning to the U.S. where...
We’re celebrating one of Hollywood’s great tough guys and one of our favorite actors September 6th at The Way Out Club in St. Louis with Super-8 Lee Marvin Movie Madness.
Lee Marvin rose through the ranks of movie stardom as a character actor, delivering mostly villainous supporting turns in many films before finally graduating to leading roles. Regardless of which side of the law he was on however, he projected a tough-as-nails intensity and a two-fisted integrity which elevated even the slightest material. Born February 19, 1924, in New York City, Marvin quit high school to enter the Marine Corps and while serving in the South Pacific was badly wounded in battle when a machine gun nest shot off part of his buttocks and severed his sciatic nerve. He spent a year in recovery before returning to the U.S. where...
- 8/30/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Columns, Cinematical
A group of murderers, psychopaths and other offenders are sent on a mission during World War II to destroy a chateau which has become a hotbed for Nazi officers. Its location is so far behind enemy lines that few of the prisoners turned military men are expected to survive, so the twelve undesirables are shuffled off to war with the promise of pardons if they manage to make it out alive. It's a motley crew of characters featuring the likes of some of cinema's favorite tough guys -- many of them relative unknowns at the time: Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown and the always weird and wonderful John Cassavetes (who would have been 81 on December 9). They've been dubbed the Dirty Dozen, because of their less than savory bathing habits (the group refused to bathe in protest against their living conditions...
A group of murderers, psychopaths and other offenders are sent on a mission during World War II to destroy a chateau which has become a hotbed for Nazi officers. Its location is so far behind enemy lines that few of the prisoners turned military men are expected to survive, so the twelve undesirables are shuffled off to war with the promise of pardons if they manage to make it out alive. It's a motley crew of characters featuring the likes of some of cinema's favorite tough guys -- many of them relative unknowns at the time: Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown and the always weird and wonderful John Cassavetes (who would have been 81 on December 9). They've been dubbed the Dirty Dozen, because of their less than savory bathing habits (the group refused to bathe in protest against their living conditions...
- 12/7/2010
- by Alison Nastasi
- Cinematical
Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Columns, Cinematical
A group of murderers, psychopaths and other offenders are sent on a mission during World War II to destroy a chateau which has become a hotbed for Nazi officers. Its location is so far behind enemy lines that few of the prisoners turned military men are expected to survive, so the twelve undesirables are shuffled off to war with the promise of pardons if they manage to make it out alive. It's a motley crew of characters featuring the likes of some of cinema's favorite tough guys -- many of them relative unknowns at the time: Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown and the always weird and wonderful John Cassavetes (who would have been 81 on December 9). They've been dubbed the Dirty Dozen, because of their less than savory bathing habits (the group refused to bathe in protest against their living conditions...
A group of murderers, psychopaths and other offenders are sent on a mission during World War II to destroy a chateau which has become a hotbed for Nazi officers. Its location is so far behind enemy lines that few of the prisoners turned military men are expected to survive, so the twelve undesirables are shuffled off to war with the promise of pardons if they manage to make it out alive. It's a motley crew of characters featuring the likes of some of cinema's favorite tough guys -- many of them relative unknowns at the time: Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown and the always weird and wonderful John Cassavetes (who would have been 81 on December 9). They've been dubbed the Dirty Dozen, because of their less than savory bathing habits (the group refused to bathe in protest against their living conditions...
- 12/7/2010
- by Alison Nastasi
- Moviefone
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