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Titolo originale: The Dirty Dozen
Regia: Robert Aldrich |
Anno: 1967
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Azione Avventura Guerra
Tag: mission | based on novel or book | nazi | secret mission | world war ii | castle | hand grenade | training | us army | fistfight | shootout | suicide mission | soldier | explosion | commando | behind enemy lines | military police |
Cast: Lee Marvin | Ernest Borgnine | Charles Bronson | Jim Brown | John Cassavetes | Richard Jaeckel | George Kennedy | Trini López | Ralph Meeker | Robert Ryan | Telly Savalas | Donald Sutherland | Clint Walker | Robert Webber | Tom Busby | Ben Carruthers | Stuart Cooper | Robert Phillips | Colin Maitland | Al Mancini | George Roubicek | Thick Wilson | Dora Reisser | Michael Anthony | Leo Britt | Alan Chuntz | Gary Files | Judith Furse | Hal Galili | Romo Gorrara | Willoughby Gray | Gerard Heinz | John G. Heller | George Hilsdon | John Hollis | Alf Joint | Juba Kennerley | Hildegard Knef | Ann Lancaster | Richard Marner | Dick Miller | Lionel Murton | Suzanne Owens-Duval | Mike Reid | Terry Richards | Frederick Schiller | Richard Shaw | Warren Stanhope | Hedger Wallace | Theodore Wilhelm | Rocky Taylor | Burnell Tucker | Vicki Woolf | Michael Segal | Gerry Crampton | Jack Carter |

Nel 1944, alla vigilia dello sbarco in Normandia delle truppe alleate, un gruppo di dodici galeotti dell'esercito statunitense viene addestrato per compiere un'importantissima ma anche difficilissima missione segreta: assaltare un castello dove si trova il quartier generale tedesco della Francia. Se riusciranno nella missione avranno in cambio la libertà.La pellicola ha il merito di mettere in evidenza la formazione della "squadra". Inizialmente i dodici sono solo dei singoli disperati che stavano attendendo in carcere l'esecuzione delle loro sentenze. Dodici persone chiuse nel loro ego lentamente, sotto la guida del Maggiore, si trasformano in un gruppo affiatato e pronto a sacrificarsi per ognuno dei suoi componenti. Tutto questo arriverà a compimento nella parte finale del film, al momento dell'attacco alla villa occupata dai Nazisti.

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(at around 1h 7 mins) Jiminez plays guitar while singing The Bramble Bush. After a pause, his hands [...] D
The truck they are riding in while in town during the war games is an M-37 Dodge. This truck wasn't [...] D
(at around 1h 3 mins) When two of Breed's men are roughing Wladislaw up in the latrine, one of them [...] D
(at around 1h 10 mins) The clothing and hairstyles worn by the women in the "graduation ball" are 19 [...] D
(at around 4 mins) In the beginning of the movie, set in 1944, Major Reisman wears Infantry branch i [...] D
Although US military personnel were executed on British soil during WW2, the hanging sequence in thi [...] D
The Dirty Dozen are shown jumping into Brittany on their D-Day eve mission wearing green M43 field j [...] D
(at around 1h 30 mins) During the "war games" sequence, some of the "Dozen" are shown to exchange th [...] D
In one scene Posey says "Captain Kinder figures he can teach me letters" implying that he is illiter [...] D
During the war games, many of the dozen are armed with M3 Grease Guns, but wear magazine pouches for [...] D
(at around 1h 5 mins) When Wladislaw is beat up in the latrine, the men in the truck ask what happen [...] D
(at around 1h 30 mins) Windshields would appear and disappear for closeups. During the war games Wla [...] D
When the Dirty Dozen (minus Maggot) are admitted to the MP's quarters for their "date" with the hook [...] D
(at around 2h 25 mins) The German soldier that shoots Franko is carrying an M3 submachine gun, which [...] D
(at around 2h 5 mins) Prior to being killed by Maggot, the woman is calling for a man named Wolfgang [...] D
(at around 2h) As the German guard walks away after having lit his cigarette off Pinkley's, Pinkley [...] D
The ambulance in the movie is a M43 ambulance made during the Korean war (1950-1953) and not WWII (1 [...] D
(at around 3 mins) In the beginning when Major Reisman is being given his mission, one of the office [...] D
(at around 47 mins) Early in the training, while speaking with the psychiatrist, the major puts two [...] D
(at around 57 mins) When Major Reisman and his driver are coming up to the gate where the men will h [...] D
(at around 15 mins) After Sgt. Bowren dubs the "Dirty Dozen" with their titular nickname, he orders, [...] D
(at around 1h 28 mins) The howitzers shown were British not US and have chromed muzzle brakes. US ho [...] D
After Pinkley's pseudo general act, Col. Breed angrily calls his two sergeants "Clayton, Blake!" As [...] D
(at around 2h 25 mins) When the explosions go off, we see a lot of damage happening to the châtea [...] D
(at around 1h 35 mins) A group of the Dirty Dozen turn a jeep over and set it on fire to begin their [...] D
(at around 13 mins) When Sgt. Bowren is introducing Maj. Reisman to the twelve prisoners, he refers [...] D
The raid takes place on the night before D-Day, when paratroopers are being dropped behind the lines [...] D
(at around 1h 55 mins) As Wladislaw exits the room with the rope and hook, he drops the rope at his [...] D
(at around 1h 40 mins) In the dinner scene, at the end of the training and just before the Dozen are [...] D
Col. Breed wears Senior Parachutist Wings throughout this picture. This qualification badge did not [...] D
At the training camp when chatting with the psychiatrist, the major puts two glasses on the table an [...] D
In the US Field Artillery, Batteries are referred to by letter not number, Headquarters and Service [...] D
(at around 16 mins) When Franko refuses to participate in the close order drill, the direction he is [...] D
Several times the characters fire their M3 Grease Guns with the dust cover closed. The dust cover do [...] D
Most of the men are far too old for the mission. D
(at around 2h 25 mins) Towards the end of the film, the Major is shot in the shoulder as he drives a [...] D
In the prison courtyard Reisman tells the sergeant to line up the prisoners according to height, rig [...] D
While almost all of the male hairstyles and uniforms look like they could be from the 1940's, not on [...] D
(at around 2h 25 mins) As the armored car is shown falling into the water at the end of the mission, [...] D
Although Major Reisman correctly wears an officer's overseas cap with the mixed black-and-gold braid [...] D
During the war games, Charles Bronson's character meets Colonel Breed at his command headquarters, a [...] D
After the General decides that the DD will be tested against Colonel Breed's Red forces, the entire [...] D
Wladislaw tells Franco that he (Franco) can't go with them on the advance team to Breed's headquarte [...] D
when the unit parachutes behind enemy lines for the mission, the major is wearing a helmet with a br [...] D
As Reisman, Bowren, Franko and Wladislaw retreat in the half-track, their weapons change from M3s to [...] D
(at around 2h 5 mins) In the chateau scene, the German girl has a 1967 hairstyle and clothing. D
(at around 2h 10 mins) When Major Reisman is in the cellar at the chateau, there is a German soldier [...] D
(at around 1h 19 mins) Just after Major Reisman fires into the ground of the camp with Colonel Breed [...] D
Wires visible on a flare during the attack on the German compound. D
(at around 2h 25 mins) At the end when Reisman is driving over the bridge, another vehicle of German [...] D
When Wladislaw and Reisman enter the chateau they are masquerading as regular-army officers. If they [...] D
(at around 1h 6 mins) The C-47 Dakota aircraft used in the jump scenes at parachute school is marked [...] D
(at around 1h 6 mins) When going through the airborne school, the static lines are not connect to th [...] D
The mission was pointless as the Allies could have just ordered an air strike. D
Pinkley is on a ladder attaching electric wires when Maggot opens the door which is clearly on the h [...] D
The château is basically a glorified brothel for officers without a significant protection detail [...] D
(at around 1h 50 mins) After Wladislaw spills the ink on the guestbook at the château, the German [...] D
(at around 2h 10 mins) Wladislaw uses a suppressed Beretta 950 Jetfire pistol to take out some guard [...] D
Major Riesman's men deliberately kill large numbers of innocent female civilians, namely the wives a [...] D
General Worden's barracks cap has gold braid on the visor, incorrect for the World War II period. Do [...] D
(at around 2h 20 mins) The Chateau scene: When Jefferson shoots the soldier through the 2nd-floor wi [...] D
(at around 1h 30 mins) As the group rests following the crossing of the impact area, Maj Armbruster [...] D
(at around 1h 35 mins) During WWII no Black man could have attained the rank of major in an all whit [...] D
(at around 1h 20 mins) After the scene where the Dirty Dozen remove the weapons from the regular sol [...] D
(at around 1h 45 mins) When the unit parachutes behind enemy lines for the mission, the major is wea [...] D
At around 3:24, when Reisman first meets General Worden and his staff indoors, Reisman salutes him w [...] D
It is clear that Major Riesman, who impersonates a German officer in the chateau, does not speak Ger [...] D
In several scenes where Col. Breed's men are knocked down, you can see they are wearing "trouser blo [...] D
(at around 1h) An airplane in the sky during the "fake General's inspection" scene disappears a fram [...] D
As Maggott was obviously insane he would never have been allowed on the mission. In fact it is likel [...] D
There would be no reason to pick Posey to play the injured soldier on a stretcher at Breed's headqua [...] D
The U.S. Armed Services were not desegregated until 1948, yet outside the core group, nobody even bl [...] D
(at around 1h 50 mins) Wladislaw admits that he couldn't understand the German officers who greet hi [...] D
(at around 1h 28 mins) The 25-pounder howitzers used during the war games do not appear to recoil. T [...] D
(at around 1h 13 mins) After the girls are left alone to "get better acquainted" with the prisoners, [...] D
(at around 56 mins) The 101st Airborne's band (when playing during the visit by the "General") was p [...] D
(at around 47 mins) When Kinder and Reisman sit down at the table to discuss the 12, a canteen appea [...] D
There appears to be no military reason for Jefferson to be ordered not to blow up the air vents unti [...] D
(at around 2h 20 mins) While the Germans did actually have early night vision scopes in the Second W [...] D
During the hanging, the metal eye on the noose must be placed under the left jaw in order to produce [...] D
General Dentons single star is pinned on the end of the epaulet, it should be in the middle. D