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The submachine guns being used by most of the Dirty Dozen is the M3, .45 caliber ACP submachine gun [...]	D
Those in the Dirty Dozen that had death penalties were Franco, Jefferson, Maggot, Posey and Wladisla [...]	D
The script called for the chateau to be blown up, but it was built so solidly that 70 tons of explos [...]	D
Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, and Charles Bronson appeared in La battaglia dei giganti (1965).	D
Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin appeared in Caccia selvaggia (1981). They'd previously appeared in Il [...]	D
(at around 12 mins) The opening credits don't occur until several minutes into the movie. Although a [...]	D
Features John Cassavetes's only Oscar nominated acting performance. He lost to his co-star in this f [...]	D
The film was shot in various locations in England, primarily in Hertfordshire. The major part of it [...]	D
Operazione Canadian Bacon (1995) made a reference to this film about black characters dying first. R [...]	D
On the eve of their final battle, they are eating in the guards' hut. The fact that they are twelve [...]	D
Jack Palance turned down the role of Archer Maggott because he disapproved of the character's racist [...]	D
The fate of the twelve prisoners in chronological order, whether on- or off-screen, and their assign [...]	D
When Reisman and Captain Kinder discuss his psychological report on the prisoners the bottle he pull [...]	D
Lee Marvin later recalled how Robert Aldrich instructed his cast to get their contemporary hair styl [...]	D
Final film of Suzanne Fleuret .	D
When Col Breed takes over Maj Reismans training camp and then Maj Reisman sneaks into the camp, clim [...]	D
The pens that Wladislaw was collecting during the war games were pencil detonators, aka timing penci [...]	D
John Wayne was first offered the part of Major John Reisman, but he declined. The part was then offe [...]	D
Production ran so long that Jim Brown was in danger of missing training camp for the upcoming 1965-1 [...]	D
Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas appeared in CittÃ violenta (1970).	D
This was the first commercially produced Hollywood film to open the Edinburgh International Film Fes [...]	D
The building used for the Marston-Tyne military prison is a 1500s inspired, Tudor-style manor, built [...]	D
MGM's biggest moneymaker of 1967.	D
When MGM first announced this in 1964, George Seaton was being lined up to direct.	D
Many of the actors were considered too old to play World War II soldiers.	D
In this film, Wladislaw, played by Charles Bronson, keeps a prisoner from escaping through the wire. [...]	D
According to Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson was adamant that he wasn't going to cut his hair for [...]	D
The film changes quite a few major points from source novel. The novel is 95 percent training, and t [...]	D
This was Donald Sutherland's biggest payday so far in his career, earning $600 per week. As a strugg [...]	D
The cast learned judo and commando techniques.	D
When Trini Lopez left the movie, Richard Jaekel's part of Sgt. Boweren was added to be part of the a [...]	D
Lee Marvin had high praise for all the men in the film, commenting that everyone was ideally cast "a [...]	D
Wladislaw, Pinkley and Maggot are the only ones who speak German during the mission.	D
Film debut of Stuart Cooper.	D
The film was released at a time when there was considerable debate over the morality of the bombing [...]	D
Lee Marvin told an interviewer following the release of this film, "Life is a violent situation. It' [...]	D
Of the twelve prisoners, only Wladislaw survives the mission. Although it isn't shown on screen, it' [...]	D
Lee Marvin based the character of Reisman on John Miara of Malden, Massachusetts, who was a close pe [...]	D
Many of the actors were much older than their characters in the novel.	D
This movie was cited by Terry Nation as one of his influences behind Blake's 7 (1978).	D
Although Robert Aldrich had tried to purchase the rights to E.M. Nathanson's novel "The Dirty Dozen" [...]	D
Charles Bronson was originally chosen to play Colonel Nick Alexander in Delta Force (1986), but ulti [...]	D
In a TCM short about Lee Marvin and the filming of this movie, the working title of the film was sho [...]	D
Final film of Dora Reisser.	D
In the novel, Reisman was 30, and Wladislaw, Franko, Maggott, and Posey were in their twenties.	D
One of the two announcers in the movie's official trailer is veteran actor Gary Merrill.	D
Donald Sutherland was one of the easiest actors to cast in this film. He was already living in Londo [...]	D
Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine, and Donald Sutherland appeared in I 6 della grande rapina (1968).	D
Lee Marvin provided technical assistance with uniforms and weapons to create realistic portrayals of [...]	D
Lee Marvin referred to this movie as "crap" and "just a dummy moneymaker", although he enjoyed the f [...]	D
The film's financial success allowed Robert Aldrich to buy his own film studio, which opened in Augu [...]	D
The film was controversial when it was released, as it depicted Allied soldiers as no better than Na [...]	D
Robert Aldrich was attracted to both the story's action elements and to its core irony, that the her [...]	D
When John Wayne turned down the part of Major Reisner the producers asked Kirk Douglas. Douglas had [...]	D
Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland appeared in I guerrieri (1970).	D
According to Ernest Borgnine in his autobiography, during the shooting, Lee Marvin once talked about [...]	D
Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland appeared in I guerrieri (1970). Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin a [...]	D
Lee Marvin (Marines), Telly Savalas (Army), Charles Bronson (Army), Ernest Borgnine (Navy), Clint Wa [...]	D
The training segment of the story took two months to film.	D
Lee Marvin and George Kennedy would later reunite in Delta Force (1986).	D
Pin-ups of Betty Weider can be seen on the walls of the MP barracks.	D
Director Robert Aldrich intended the film as an anti-war allegory for what was happening in Vietnam.	D
At the end of the movie Charles Bronson (Joseph Wladislaw) is reading the Stars and Stripes, a milit [...]	D
The French chÃ¢teau that appears in the film was constructed especially for the production by art [...]	D
One scene required Lee Marvin to drive an armored truck with Charles Bronson riding shotgun. With ca [...]	D
George Kennedy, Clint Walker, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown reunited to play the voices of the sold [...]	D
Lee Marvin (Major Reisman) and Richard Jaeckel (Sergeant Bowren) both appeared in Prima linea (1956) [...]	D
The scene where one of the dozen pretends to be a General inspecting Robert Ryan's troops was initia [...]	D
Six of the Dozen were well-known American stars, while the "Back Six" were actors resident in the UK [...]	D
The decision to cast veteran actors in their forties as soldiers was widely condemned when the film [...]	D
Lee Marvin related a joke Robert Aldrich pulled on Charles Bronson, who was only about 5'9" and wore [...]	D
The cast apparently enjoyed England, spending a lot of time in what was then swinging London though [...]	D
The operation count-off was as follows: - One: down to the road block we've just begun. - Two: the g [...]	D
Woody Allen joined Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas to play poker when filming was fini [...]	D
In Spain, the dubbed version changed Franko's name to Franchi because the country's ruler at the tim [...]	D
(at around 2h 20 mins) When Jefferson is going to throw the grenades into the air shafts someone yel [...]	D
Joseph Wladislaw says his father was a coal miner from Silesia, an area of Poland known for coal min [...]	D
Reisman was a Captain in the novel. He was made a Major for the film, as Lee Marvin was forty-two.	D
In the novel, the black character's name is Napoleon White. It was changed to Robert Jefferson for t [...]	D
Charles Bronson didn't care for the film, claiming it was too violent. He even walked out of it in t [...]	D
Joseph Wladislaw (Charles Bronson) was one of the survivors and remained alive after the mission. In [...]	D
The film cast includes three Oscar winners: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and George Kennedy; and fou [...]	D
One of the German guards killed at the checkpoint ended up with a promotion. Richard Marner was the [...]	D
Robert Aldrich was told that he could be in line for an Oscar as Best Director for the film if he cu [...]	D
Had the unit left for Allied lines, they could have connected with Airborne pathfinders after the mi [...]	D
At a cocktail function in London, Lee Marvin got drunk and propositioned an older woman in the most [...]	D
Critics at the time the film opened considered many of the actors much too old for the parts they pl [...]	D
As film production ran over schedule, Frank Sinatra advised Trini LÃ³pez to quit, so that his reco [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American M [...]	D
In the film's original opening scene, while Reisman walked down the line of condemned men, all of th [...]	D
The hangman's noose used in the opening sequence, is an exact version of the noose used by Albert Pi [...]	D
The huge Chateau where the German Generals are quartered is actually a huge 240' x 50' set built in [...]	D
Final screenplay written by Nunnally Johnson.	D
Later followed by three television sequels in the 1980s.	D
(at around 25 mins) Early in the movie, Sergeant Bowren chastises Corporal Morgan for not finding so [...]	D
Although it is never mentioned in the film, Major Reisman was Jewish. His true forename was Jacob. " [...]	D
"The Dirty Dozen" author E.M. Nathanson may have gotten the idea for the title (if not the plot) of [...]	D
During World War II, the American forces detained some U.S. servicemen convicted of criminal acts at [...]	D
Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin, and Ernest Borgnine appeared in Giorno maledetto (1955).	D
British stand up comedian (and later a straight actor) Mike Reid appears as an extra in this film.	D
Jim Brown later recalled: "I loved my part. I was one of the Dozen, a quiet leader, and my own man, [...]	D
Although Aldrich had a reputation for making excellent macho-man movies like this one and "The Fligh [...]	D
Posey is never shown to have been killed. There is a quick cut of Bravos bleeding and falling alongs [...]	D
Lee Marvin had worked with Robert Aldrich before, on Prima linea (1956). He found the director "a tr [...]	D
This was Charles Bronson's fourth film for director Robert Aldrich. They had previously worked toget [...]	D
According to Guinness, this movie was the top money maker of 1967 in the US and Canada.	D
This is one of the few Hollywood movies showing American soldiers intentionally committing acts that [...]	D
Donald Sutherland was a late casting decision, replacing an actor who dropped out because he thought [...]	D
(at around 1h 21 mins) General Worden choking his drink upon hearing of the Dozen's party was ad-lib [...]	D
When Cleveland Browns' fullback Jim Brown signed on as Jefferson, Robert Aldrich beefed up his part [...]	D
Director Robert Aldrich hated to work in England. British crews were too slow for his fast pace of w [...]	D
According to Jim Brown's autobiography, Trini Lopez's part was supposed to be larger, but he demande [...]	D
John Cassavetes directed Ben Carruthers in Ombre (1958).	D
In August 1966 Muhammad Ali visited the filming set of The Dirty Dozen. Ali was in England for his t [...]	D
Most of the events in the film were taken from the final part of the novel.	D

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