They are convicts psychos lunkheads losers
- & champs at the box office & in movie lore. Decades after it burst onto the scene THE DIRTY DOZEN remains a milestone among ensemble action flicks. Lee Marvin portrays a tough-as-nails major volunteered in the Army way to command a squad of misfits on a suicide mission against Nazi Brass. Charles Bronson Jim Brown John Cassavetes Trini Lopez Telly Savalas Donald Sutherland & Clint Walker are among the 12 jailbirds who will earn their freedom if they survive. & Robert Aldrich directs blending anti-authority gibes with explosive excitement. Nominated for four Academy Awards THE DIRTY DOZEN won for Best Sound Effects.