The Dirty Dozen (1967)

GLORY & PROPAGANDA is July’s theme. That means wartime movies all month long and we got some 60s dadcool cinema to discuss today. Two fisted but not too “heel clickey” Robert Aldrich’s 1967 film “THE DIRTY DOZEN” holds solid ground in the history of good war movies. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, a not very well liked officer, who is assigned a dozen military prisoners who are set to either hang or serve hard time for acts of thievery, murder and rape. The goal is to parachute into France and kill a shit-ton of nazi officers the night before D-Day. Shooting nazis sounds fun but this is pretty much a suicide mission. Death by gallows or one last chance to die by glory. Reisman has to figure out how to unify these misfits even if one or two of them might actually be pretty terrible people. Every dad saw this 50 years ago but when a cast is stacked with the likes of Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, George Kennedy, Telly Savalas and plenty more, you can bet THE DIRTY DOZEN is a good time at any time. Check it out and hear us tell it. Also, you gotta check out the poster for this movie. It’s cool as hell. An all timer. 

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