They are convicts, psychos, lunkheads, losers...and champs at the box office and in movie lore. Decades after its burst onto the scene, The Dirty Dozen remains a milestone among ensemble action flicks. Lee Marvin is Major Reisman, a tough-as-nails officer assigned to command a dozen convicted murderers and misfits on a suicide mission of a mass assassination of Nazi German officers in World War II. Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland and Clint Walker are amongst the 12 jailbirds who will earn their freedom if they survive. Nominated for four Academy Awards in 1967, The Dirty Dozen won for Best Sound Effects.

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