Movies
August, 1967
The plot couldn't be more of a cinematic cliché: A dozen court-martialed American Army prisoners--most of them awaiting execution--are to be taken from their stockade in England and trained for a delicate, deadly mission behind Nazi lines. Few, if any, will return, but those who do will have their sentences commuted. This time around, the film (and the collection of prisoners) is known as The Dirty Dozen--and it is easily the most exciting and entertaining war epic since The Guns of Navarone. He...
