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…
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