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LIST PRICE
$12.97
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Format: DVD
Jan 2007
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
Color
UPC: 012569675247 |
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In general items shipped via Media Mail should arrive in 2-9 days (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) from the time of shipping
* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
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Details
Movie Description
An all-star cast energizes Robert Aldrich's classic World War II action drama about a group of 12 American military prisoners assembled by tacticians and ordered to perform a suicide mission: infiltrate a well-guarded château and kill the Nazi officials vacationing there. The incarcerated soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, jump at the chance to redeem themselves. Major Reisman (Lee Marvin), the noncriminal in charge of the group, whips the men into a crack unit, uses them to best the troops of his by-the-book superior officer, Colonel Breed (Robert Ryan), in war games, then leads the steely antiheroes on their perilous assault.
The film is studded with standout performances, including Telly Savalas as a religious psychopath with a febrile animosity toward Germans and John Cassavetes in an Oscar-nominated portrayal as an insubordinate, poison-tongued hothead. Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson, and football legend Jim Brown further round out the impressive collection of talent. Aldrich, who by the time of THE DIRTY DOZEN had been fathoming the darker side of life onscreen for more than a decade (KISS ME DEADLY, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?), scored a huge hit with this rousing thriller laced with a stinging cynicism perfectly in tune with the increasingly skeptical tenor of the times.
Industry Reviews
"Any movie with Telly Savalas as a psychotic named A.J. Maggott is already halfway home....[A] red-meat classic..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (06/05/1998)
"[P]owerful..."
Total Film - Matthew Leyland (01/01/2004)
"[I]t's a relentless work -- violent, funny and deeply cynical."
Uncut - Danny Leigh (08/01/2004)
4 stars out of 5 -- "Robert Aldrich's gleefully nasty, willfully daft action adventure is ageing well."
Total Film - Ceri Thomas (07/01/2006)
3 stars out of 5 -- "A new twist -- in its time -- on the war movie....It's a good cast..."
Ultimate DVD - Jan Vincent-Rudzki (07/01/2006)
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Other Editions
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Laserdisc - $9.99 Save 75%
Laserdisc - $9.99 Save 66%
DVD, Apr 1998 - $3.95 Save 84%
VHS - $1.99 Save 90%
VHS, Jul 1996 - $0.75 Save 94%
VHS, May 2000 - $2.10 Save 78%
DVD, Oct 2000 - $20.00 Save 74%
DVD, May 2000 - $0.75 Save 94%
VHS, Jun 2000 - $0.75 Save 92%
VHS, Jun 2001 - $2.45 Save 75%
VHS, Jun 2001 - $6.00 Save 39%
DVD, May 2006 - $4.24 Save 84%
HD DVD, Sep 2006 - $3.12 Save 89%
Blu-ray Disc, Apr 2007 - $9.98 Save 65%
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