IMDb plot summary: During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
Directed by Robert Aldrich. Starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, and Jim Brown.
What a strangely paced movie. In two and a half hours it barely has time to introduce any of characters and doesn't have time for any kind of denouement, leaving me genuinely confused about whether it thinks these characters were worth exploring or saving. I guess we're just supposed to be rooting for the Major and everyone else's story is expendable, which I'd say feels weirdly incongruous with the tone of the movie, but I suppose it isn't. While this plot should have an obviously arc of redemption through heroism, these men are only really ever seen as war fodder, even by our protagonist, it's just a question of whether or not they're going to be GOOD war fodder. It turns out they are, so... yay?
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Dirty Dozen < The Sasquatch Gang
The Dirty Dozen > Stardust Memories
The Dirty Dozen < The Giver
The Dirty Dozen > X2
The Dirty Dozen < The Lorax (1972)
The Dirty Dozen < Into the Wild
The Dirty Dozen < An Ideal Husband
The Dirty Dozen < Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Dirty Dozen > Cracks
The Dirty Dozen < The General
The Dirty Dozen < Syrup
The Dirty Dozen < A Christmas Carol (2004)
Final spot: #2089 out of 3047.
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