# The Dirty Dozen (1967)

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**Runtime**: 149 min
**Genres**: Action, Adventure, War
**Directed by**: Robert Aldrich
**Written by**: Nunnally Johnson, Lukas Heller
**Starring**: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel

> *Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A wartime prison yard, summer, barbed wire. 
Convicted soldiers train for a high-risk mission behind enemy lines, a château looming as their target. 
Aldrich shoots with a tough, unvarnished eye.

**Mood tags**: epic, raw

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