The Dirty Dozen: 12 Things You Don't Need to Know

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Before they recruited the Suicide Squad to go after super-villains, Lee Marvin assembled an all-star team of condemned military convicts for a suicide mission to take on the Nazis.
Today, I’m digging into a dozen facts about the 1967 classic, The Dirty Dozen.

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@patrickmcdaniel2048 3 жыл бұрын

Clint Walker came to my restaurant one time. We got a phone call from his assistant saying "we have a major celebrity with our party and we do not want anyone to know that he's coming because sometimes fans will form huge crowds to see him. We will be visiting your restaurant today if you can accommodate a group of 20 in a private room." I explained that we could put them in a somewhat secluded area of the restaurant, but that it would not be private. They agreed to those terms but they wouldn't tell us who the celebrity was. So everyone in the restaurant was super excited expecting Denzel Washington or Tom Hanks, but instead an 80 something year old Clint Walker came in. He was very old, but he was still a very large man. The young lady that served them asked who he was and his assistant explained to her that his name was Clint Walker and that he had been a big movie star, then she listed off some of the more major movies he had been in. Of course none of the young millennials had ever heard of any of the movies or TV shows he had been in, but The Dirty Dozen has been one of my favorite movies since I was a child. Everyone was so disappointed that it wasn't a movie star they knew of, but I was very happy and proud to have served Mr Walker that day. RIP Cheyenne Bodie

@nickgov66 2 жыл бұрын

If he was still alive and much younger he would have made a great Jack Reacher.

@the_trooper_72 Жыл бұрын

He was awesome, he knew his responsibilities to the generation he grew up with..

@michaeljudge5089 3 жыл бұрын

The Dirty Dozen. One of those movies you turn on “for a few minutes” and next thing you know its late at night and you’re still glued...

@ravipeiris4388 3 жыл бұрын

Never get tired of this movie 🍿. The first third of the movie is my favorite as you begin to see the bonds of friendship developing between the characters.

@mena94x3 3 жыл бұрын

The Big Red One, The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Day, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Guns of Navarone, Gallipoli, Midway, Sands of Iwo Jima, etc. . . . All hold a special place in my heart. My dad was always watching those, and old westerns, and thus, so was I.

@cobaltace62 4 жыл бұрын

Great movie, great actors, good script and Lee Marvin WAS a true badass.

@thomasjones7655 4 жыл бұрын

What's the difference between the dirty dozen and suicide squad? The dirty dozen was a good movie.

@Robbini0 4 жыл бұрын

Suicide Squad was a bunch of criminals who were captured strictly for the squad. The Dirty Dozen ( & sequels) was a bunch of soldiers who had all committed some serious crimes, were already sentenced and either imprisoned or awaiting sentences, and they were then 'convinced' to volunteer for the mission.

@d.e.b.b5788 4 жыл бұрын

Oh come on now. My 13 year old thought suicide squad was great, just like kids did with the dirty dozen so many years ago.

@GryphonArmorer 4 жыл бұрын

Oh now. ‘Suicide Squad’ wasn’t so bad. Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn is some really nice eye candy. 😍😜😂🤪🤣

@d.e.b.b5788 4 жыл бұрын

@@GryphonArmorer But then, Margot Robbie is some really nice eye candy in anything.

@bigblue6917 4 жыл бұрын

So true.

@NitaKerns 3 жыл бұрын

Donald Sutherland is absolute GOLD as Pinkley. Im glad they decided to us him for the inspection scene, he had made ROLLING 🤣 The Dirty Dozen is my dad's favorite film, and my favorite film is Kelly's Heroes- another great Donald Sutherland performance! THE MAN IS A LEGEND.

@PaulTesta Ай бұрын

R.I.P. Donald Sutherland

@jeffyoung2890 5 жыл бұрын

This movie is one of my most favorite ones. My Dad took me & the family to the drive-in to see this & "Planet of the Apes". Back then you usually saw two to three movies at the drive-in. I own this as well on DVD. LOVE the "Big Red One" too. Anything with Lee Marvin in it is worth owning or going to see! Thanks again Jeff... Until next time!

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

That's exactly the way I feel anything with Lee Marvin in it especially before the 1970s including his TV roles and his two TV shows M Squad and Lawbreakers

@Rhubba 4 жыл бұрын

Here are some other things about the movie: The scene where Donald Sutherland inspects the troops was filmed at Colindale, North London, on the site of the Royal Air Force Museum. The building in the background still stands and houses part of the collection. I used to live near it. Donald Sutherland and Al Mancini were cast in the film because it was shot in the UK and they hired American and Canadian actors who were living and working in Britain at the time. Sutherland was a supporting actor in many British TV shows in the mid-sixties and Kieffer was born in London shortly after The Dirty Dozen finished filming. And my mum was an extra in this movie. She was in the party scenes at the Chateau. Short blonde lady in a dark dress.

@peterb.2183 4 жыл бұрын

Watched some night time scenes at the old MGM studios in Borehamwood, so boring!

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

That's pretty cool to have your mom in any movie but to have her in one of the biggest and most popular movies of all time is quite something!

@commentcopbadge6665 3 жыл бұрын

@@jameshuseby6290 Whoa whoa! Put the brakes on the "...any movie...", pal. LOL! There are some movies I'm sure you'd never want your mom in.

@rogerlynch5279 2 жыл бұрын

@@commentcopbadge6665 -fellow, keep your horses in the stable, the phrase IN ALL MOVIES just was a figure of speech

@stankygeorge 2 жыл бұрын

Great tidbits of behind the scenes, thanks!

@8-bitsteve500 5 жыл бұрын

Back when films were good and not the same old recycled crap because hollywood doesn't have an original idea anymore.

@bigblue6917 4 жыл бұрын

I remember the good old days when films did not include super hero's, just real human beings.

@lavrentivs9891 4 жыл бұрын

There were lots of crap films and perhaps even more recycling back then than there is now. E.g. "Cat-women of the moon" from 1953 had two-three almost identical films made in the following 10 years.

@jameshuseby6290 3 жыл бұрын

Most movies think they have to throw in CGI special effects to make a good movie even comedy like were all children it turns me off what ever happened to good scripts Dialogue interesting plots character development that would hold the public's attention instead of the crap action every second and phoney TV situational comedy Dialogue where every second there's a smart ass comment that's just not real life conversation

@franl155 3 жыл бұрын

Films used to be made by people with vision and passion - now they're scripted by committee and submitted to financial suits for their approval.

@lavrentivs9891 3 жыл бұрын

@robert beatty Normally you put actors *infront* of a green screen, not behind it.

@fabianpatrizio2865 4 жыл бұрын

This film was just a great classic......funny, great script, acting...timing...direction...music...everything...very rare...all the planets lined up :)

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

And great actors don't forget them without them very specific actors it just wouldn't have been as great a movie as it was

@TreeHead99 4 жыл бұрын

I htink it may have also inspired "The Devil's Eight", a 1969 movie with Christopher George, "A federal agent rounds up eight convicts to help fight a vicious moonshine gang."

@frankmoore3598 4 жыл бұрын

Lee Marvin was a real life bad ass.

@jeffburnham6611 4 жыл бұрын

But Marvin sucked in his role as a Marine in the movie 'Hell in the Pacific', with Toshiro Mifune. I expected more from him playing something he had actually been, a Marine in WW2.

@rowdyyates4273 4 жыл бұрын

He was buried in Arlington national cemtery with full military honours--

@munichbier1167 4 жыл бұрын

He played a shot down pilot not a marine.

@GeorgiaBoy1961 4 жыл бұрын

Many of the tough-guy actors of that generation were the real deal. Lee Marvin was a Marine infantryman who saw combat in the Pacific, wounded during the invasion of Saipan. His costar Charles Bronson was a teenaged tail-gunner in the USAAF in a B-29 Super Fortress heavy bomber over Japan. He, too, was entitled to wear the Purple Heart for wounds sustained in action. Another costar, Ernest Borgnine, served a decade in the U.S. Navy before being mustered out in 1945 as a gunner's mate 1st class. He was entitled to wear the WWII Victory Medal in his fruit salad, amongst other awards. Fellow cast member Clint Walker joined the Merchant Marine sea service during the latter years of WWII. Telly Savalis served from 1943-1946 in the U.S. Army, winning a Purple Heart. George Kennedy also served in the U.S. Army. Robert Ryan served in the Marine Corps during the Second World War, but did not see service outside of the U.S. Point being, many of these men knew about life in uniform and life during hard times, not only because of the war but because of the Great Depression. They were "real" tough guys.... and it showed in their performances.

@exexpat11 4 жыл бұрын

@@jeffburnham6611 I believe Lee Marvin felt uncomfortable in the role. Lee had a lot of bad experiences fighting the Japanese and kind of went off the reservation. A lot of his friends were killed in close battle with the Japanese. It effected him so much he REALLY did wear a necklace of ears from Japanese Army dead he fought. I would not screw with Lee Marvin. He was the real deal.

@footofjuniper8212 4 жыл бұрын

This is one of my favorites. Didn't know that about Trini Lopez quitting the movie. Great video!

@luisreyes1963 3 жыл бұрын

So that's why his character was killed off early.

@ppsh43 4 жыл бұрын

During WWII, Charles Bronson served on a B-29 in the USAAF

@509Gman 4 жыл бұрын

ppsh43 balls of steel

@whiskey1mantis357 3 жыл бұрын

Bronson, Steve McQueen were real life bad azzes

@johnbellamy1168 4 жыл бұрын

I was privileged as a 10 year old Cub Scout to be present at the Aldbury location for the filming of the scene when the armoured column was moving through a Devonshire village. I was sat behind the duckpond adjacent to the church and next to a real stationary Sherman tank. Highlights of the day were when the Sherman was moving out it ran over a stack of camera equipment which had been left under the tracks, presumably as it looked like a safe place to put it! The second highlight was meeting some of the main cast including Lee Marvin, we sat in a jeep with him.

@davidjames579 3 жыл бұрын

Is that Aldbury in Hertfordshire?

@warp00009 4 жыл бұрын

Donald Sutherland was also a tank commander in Kelly's Heroes too...

@mrnegatively5125 4 жыл бұрын

Odd ball

@handimanjim4378 4 жыл бұрын

In Kelly's Heroes, he was a tanker in WWII, but he spoke in 60's hippie!

@handimanjim4378 4 жыл бұрын

So, I wasn't wrong!

@wyattdean5658 4 жыл бұрын

Arff, Arff, Arff...

@doughesson 4 жыл бұрын

And a Hospital Corpsman in The Bedford Incident. One of his first roles.

@natehill8069 4 жыл бұрын

Whenever I watch this, I always tell Franco not to jinx things by saying they survived until after they get out, but he always does; and he gets killed for it every time...

@BumMcFluff 4 жыл бұрын

He just won't listen.

@kennethlatham3133 3 жыл бұрын

I call that the "Cassavetes Rule"; no early celebration!

@rebeccaquick8623 4 жыл бұрын

The Dirty Dozen is one of two of my FAVORITE MOVIES of all times

@paulspears715 4 жыл бұрын

what's the other one

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

Didn't want to have to admit Love Story was your other one eh!

@stnwrd 4 жыл бұрын

All great movies. It brings back great memories watching the classics with my late GREAT DAD. :)

@ebriggs3498 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite Lee Marvin movie is Cat Ballou, for which he won a much deserved Academy Award as Kid Shaleen. The horse was great too! However, his points went through the roof in my book when I found out that he really was a US Marine! In fact, he is buried at Arlington cemetery. RIP Lee Marvin!

@AMillionMovies 3 жыл бұрын

Not his line, but Cat Ballou has one of the funniest lines. He’s drunk and trying to show he can still shoot. They put a target on the side of a barn and I think he ends up hitting the weathervane on top. One of the guys yells, “He did it! He missed the barn!”

@downton938 Жыл бұрын

Steiger should have won that year in my opinion. Still love Marvin though!

@ibleebinU 4 жыл бұрын

I saw this with my older brother in '67 when I was 11. Loved it then and have viewed it multiple times.

@keithklitses6433 4 жыл бұрын

Dirty Dozen also Inspired a British Science Fiction Series Called Blake's Seven. As the creator of the show Terry Nation puts it, "It was a Dirty Dozen Set in Outer Space"

@paulrybak4019 4 жыл бұрын

One possible error: Lopez, Jiminez, was not to blow up the Chateau. He was to climb the rope. When Riker shoots the bottom of the rope with a machine gun, he scurries up. Then Riker tells Franco he was next. Franco says, 'I thought only Jiminez had to climb up to that Chateau'. 'But what if Jiminez gets killed and can't climb up to that Chateau?' When he's reported dead, Riker reminds Franco why all had to do it.

@pwareham61 4 жыл бұрын

It's Reisman, not Riker.

@tuffguy0134 4 жыл бұрын

Franco called Jimenez "Mayonnaise" when he said "I thought Mayonnaise was the only one climbing to the top of the chateau".

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

Sargent Riker told him that with a gay inflection which made it really funny

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

That's right he did

@johnminehan1148 5 жыл бұрын

Robert Ryan was BOTH USMC AND USMM in WWII.

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

Yes he was a Drill Sergeant stateside at Camp Pendleton in California

@johnminehan1148 4 жыл бұрын

@@jameshuseby6290 I didn't know he had been "on the Street" (what Marines call "being on the Trail" in Army terms: being a Drill). My father was a friend of Ryan's from the USMM. He said Ryan was a good guy and very quiet.

@jeffj126 4 жыл бұрын

Lee Marvin believed that the film " Hell in the Pacific" best defined the horrors of battle in World War II.

@johnrogan9420 4 жыл бұрын

Watch him in Combat the tv series...shoots his rifle as a WW2 vet...other actors like Vic Morrow look like boy scouts in comparison!

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

I read a few years ago in this site from the combat TV show the actor that portrayed Little John in the TV show Combat saying how the whole cast and crew had such a great time on the set of Combat especially when Lee Marvin guest starred on the show and how they were so impressed by him

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

The TV show Combat came on the air in 1963 though 1967 Lee Marvin guest stars in Combat if I remember right in 1963 or at the latest 1964 The Dirty Dozen came out in 1967

@davidjames579 3 жыл бұрын

@Mark Richards Hell In The Pacific was the next year. Dir John Boorman met Marvin on the set of The Dirty Dozen and persuaded him to play the lead in Point Blank. Then he did Boorman's next film, which was HITP.

@davidjames579 3 жыл бұрын

@Mark Richards No problem. Marvin made Boorman. He was a British TV director who'd mainly done documentaries and one film, a Hard Day's Night rip off featuring the band The Dave Clark Five. But Boorman approached Marvin as he luckily was in England to film DD.

@44hawk28 4 жыл бұрын

The primary technical advisor for the movie The Dirty Dozen, was named Duff Matson, if memory serves me correctly. If I remember correctly he was either a member of one of these groups in World War II always very closely associated with one of the groups. I do understand there may have been more than one. The story is roughly based on actual events of soldiers that they would release from prison because of their unique talents.

@slickmouse 4 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine was in this film Tom Busby, he's shot in the head near the end of the film. He said he made more money playing poker than his wages for making the film. He was a real nice guy too.

@kennethlatham3133 3 жыл бұрын

Vladek.

@brentlittle8075 4 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed your show,thanks!

@tonymurphy528 4 жыл бұрын

Some great info I didn't know about, great research, you obviously have a great love of movies, just subscribed and looking forward to watching the rest, thanks for posting.

@northbound-yx5el 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent trivia. Thank you.

@AMillionMovies 5 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.

@rohnkd4hct260 4 жыл бұрын

The Dirty Dozen was a good movie. I remember going to see it in the theater.

@hugh-johnfleming289 4 жыл бұрын

... at the Cornell Theatre, Burbank, on a double bill one Saturday afternoon with 'Grand Prix.' Like six hours of movie because my Mom had a boatload of errands to accomplish and probably didn't want to wrangle my presence all afternoon. I was a happy camper.

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

My twin brother and I did to when we were 13 years old

@J0MBi Жыл бұрын

My favourite thing about these videos - the honest title, it really is things I don't need to know! But I still enjoy hearing about them.

@mickyfrazer786 4 жыл бұрын

There's "the Devil's Brigade" which is similar but I believe based on a real regiment.

@BigDaddy-fx4nx 4 жыл бұрын

My friend's dad was in that regiment and yes they were real and climbed that mountain as far as I know.

@doughesson 4 жыл бұрын

The 1st Special Service Force was real. The movie glossed over a lot of their actions.

@GeorgiaBoy1961 4 жыл бұрын

The 1st Special Service Force, a joint Canadian-American unit of elite alpine/mountain troops and commandos, were most-assuredly not recruited from inside the military prison system. The selection process itself was open only to outstanding soldiers with excellent service records, and the force cadre took the cream of the crop for inclusion in the unit. The 1st SSF ranks amongst the finest special-operations units of the entire war.

@anthonyhargis6855 5 жыл бұрын

Nice. An all-time favorite movie.

@tacticalgreengecko7369 6 жыл бұрын

I felt that the dirty dozen was a good movie a very well written script amazing speical effects. Something that can never be recreated by cgi. New movies are easy to make old movies are so clever and good no bright lights just a well written story with good acting and the best casting choice for the roles of the dirty dozen.

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

I feel the same way they just can't get the gritty part down like in the older movies and they definitely don't have the same type of men to even get near filling the shoes of the men that were actors then

@straitjacket8689 4 жыл бұрын

Lee Marvins headstone reads PFC USMC

@tomservo7005 4 жыл бұрын

I believe he went ashore 23 times. I'm not sure..

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

That's was the most important thing in his life was his experiences in the USMC after he made it in Hollywood he couldn't get out of there quick enough he felt it was a phony place to live in

@brianjones7907 4 жыл бұрын

you missed 1998`s "SMALL SOLDIERS" the voices of the small soldiers are clint walker, jim brown ,george kennedy & ernest borgnine......

@kathydegeer4548 Жыл бұрын

Loved the comments about The Dirty Dozen.Been going to movies since I was a kid. Lee Marvin was a real badass,loved it!

@wolfgangholtzclaw2637 4 жыл бұрын

John Casavetes and Lee Marvin are the soup that bring the DD 12 Off... the interplay and reactions as they make a point to get on each other's uncomfortable side are unforgettable... in particular the early scene where Lee Marvin Beats Victor Franco into the ground until he is unconcious. The scene which ends with Lee Marvin's boot in Franco's face... incredibly wild scene.

@michaelweizer7794 4 жыл бұрын

Bubba Holtzclaw I will never Never forget the fight scene between Lee Marvin and Clint walker!. Much the same as the fight scene a couple decades later in the first fast and the furious between the late Paul Walker and Vin Diesels best friend fight that Dominick Torreto had to break up.

@wolfgangholtzclaw2637 4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelweizer7794 OH yes, another fav of mine also, he gets under his skin, because he has to know he will fight when the time calls for it... Great, thanks for bringing that one out too!

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

I thought you were going to say the fight scene in the movie Emperor of the North between A1 Lee Marvin and Shack Ernst Borgnine on the train that was a brutal fight scene

@michaelweizer7794 4 жыл бұрын

@@jameshuseby6290 So long as the subject is fight scenes on trains I still think it's pretty hard to top the James Bond classic from Russia with love!.And that was in 1963.

@ReverendZen 4 жыл бұрын

Since you've segued into Lee Marvin, how about doing Donovan's Reef Staring Lee Marvin and John Wayne!

@paulspears715 4 жыл бұрын

very funny movie

@rogelioVela1985 4 жыл бұрын

it is awesome some of the dirty dozen cast did voice overs in the film, "Small Soldiers". totally worth watching :D

@MrOnemanop 4 жыл бұрын

Cool. Another great (Movie!)

@stevemcnary4301 4 жыл бұрын

Telly Savallas as Maggot was an incredible performance!

@Zeldarw104 4 жыл бұрын

I don't like war or combat movies, but, The dirty dozen was all that! I think the standout performances are Lee Marvin, Jim Brown, and John Cassavetes I gotta be real all the acting was top-notch and outstanding!💯 Great movie facts! BTW, this was one of my father's favorite films!

@AMillionMovies 4 жыл бұрын

All were good, but Cassavetes was the highlight for me.

@caryrodda 5 жыл бұрын

Great video! I would have loved to have seen those poker games!

@salvadorhurtado9988 2 жыл бұрын

I love the dirty dozen, and it has always reminded me of The Guns of Navarone.

@vividwatch47 4 жыл бұрын

There was "The Secret Invasion" which dealt with five criminals and a widow who try to save an Italian general which came out three years before "The Dirty Dozen".

@MeryToste 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing Movie.. Amazing Cast.. Beautiful Song The Bramble Bush 🎸 Sung By Unforgettable Brilliant TRINI LOPEZ (Pedro Jimenez)🎸👏👏👏🙏

@musgrovebarry 4 жыл бұрын

Lee Marvin said it wasn't real to war how ever he had a very specific experience

@thrashpondopons2776 4 жыл бұрын

Little factoid... Richard Jeckel also served in the Merchant Marines.

@grahameprince4773 3 жыл бұрын

Try not to forget the television series , called “ Garrison Gorillas “ made in 1966

@vincentkosik403 2 жыл бұрын

Saw it at summer camp back in 67....just resaw it today on TV and it hasn't aged a bit...great cast, story and one of the best war movies ever made

@Nigelg68 4 жыл бұрын

nice one. very informative about one of my fav movies thanks

@tomservo7005 4 жыл бұрын

What a movie and cast. Lee Marvin top notch actor and war hero.

@joelwillems4081 2 жыл бұрын

One of the first times I watched this with my dad, he recalled everyone in the theater clapping when Jim Brown was running to set off the explosives.

@randyacuna3248 4 жыл бұрын

There is a war film that was like a pre- dirty dozen in 1964 called the secret invasion. This very good war film also has a all star cast such as Mickey Rooney, Henry silvia, ed barnes, William Campbell and Stewart Granger among others, this film is well worth watching.

@randyacuna3248 4 жыл бұрын

The secret invasion is from gean and roger corman.

@rickcourier8451 4 жыл бұрын

Here's a suggestion for a movie "The Nanny" starring Betty Davis. British film from the sixties. It terrified me as a child. I have copy and it still creeps me out.

@alhodge4051 4 жыл бұрын

very informative, thanks.

@tentleytoy3420 3 жыл бұрын

If you want me to blow your mind with another fact that was left out!! The movie Small Soldiers, all the Commando Elite Characters are played by the actors in the Dirty Dozen. Lee Marvin was cast for the roll of Major Chip Hazard but died before the movie was finished, so they recast Tommy Lee Jones for the roll

@NitaKerns 3 жыл бұрын

OMFG I HAD NO IDEA!!! I loved Small Soldiers before I even knew of The Dirty Dozen! I just looked it up and George Kennedy, Clint Walker, Ernest Borgnine and Jim Brown were voices of the Elite!!! Thats SO AWESOME!!!

@SERESurfer 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for mentioning the Merchant Marines ! 🇺🇸

@thrashpondopons2776 4 жыл бұрын

Little extra... Richard Jeckel was in the Merchant Marines as well! & Thank You for your service!

@GeorgiaBoy1961 4 жыл бұрын

The members of the Merchant Marine were not entitled to combat pay, combat decorations or awards, and other honors and recognition due members of the line navy who served in combat or in war zones. Yet, they were arguably the bravest of all since they sailed into harm's way aboard vessels largely unarmed and extremely vulnerable to attack by German aircraft and submarines. The regs were finally changed, and the Merchant Mariners got their just due recognition. They were brave men. Going into the water in the far north Atlantic was almost a death sentence, a man in the water would last only a few minutes before freezing to death.

@donkeydump63 4 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite movies. A great cast.

@raycope2086 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderfully interesting my fiend. Thank you. I wish you rainbows.

@craigsavarese8631 4 жыл бұрын

My favorite stay in home during a storm/iced road day movie marathon is The Dirty Dozen, Patton, The Longest Day, and Kelly’s Heroes. That or just a Band of Brothers day.

@gabrielshear4298 5 жыл бұрын

Casino Royale , another movie mentioned ..

@rpryce2140 5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget that the Dirty Dozen scene in Sleepless in Seattle was ad libbed!

@odysseusrex5908 5 жыл бұрын

Did not know that.

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

That scene is so funny doesn't surprise me knowing how good at ad libing Tom Hanks is on talk shows

@packingten 4 жыл бұрын

"Listen you slob you slob",#2 Sir","Everybodys slipping on the soap"

@tmrezzek5728 4 жыл бұрын

Acting in The Dirty Dozen was a canny move on Lee Marvin's part. He wasn't enthusiastic but knew it'd be "a dummy moneymaker" and give him leverage for 'Point Blank' which he REALLY wanted to make (also for MGM.) And it worked--'The Dirty Dozen' made a fortune and for 'Point Blank' Marvin got cast approval, script approval, and final cut..all of which he deferred to director John Boorman. 'Point Blank' is one of the finest films Marvin ever did.

@jondrew55 4 жыл бұрын

Right behind Cat Ballou

@LadyTurpitude 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe The BIg Heat?

@plasticweapon 2 жыл бұрын

point blank is the FINEST film lee marvin ever did.

@brianwinters5434 4 жыл бұрын

A classic guy movie which guys can watch again and again just like there are chick flicks which women can watch again again. I can watch the dirty dozen again again.

@NitaKerns 3 жыл бұрын

Im a chick, and Ive seen this movie at least a dozen times. Kelly's Heroes is the one I watch again and again and again!

@leondillon8723 4 жыл бұрын

#1) The unit was always called "The Filthy 13" even when the mission had up to 18 men.They were led by Private First Class (E-2 then) Jake "McNasty" McNiece and were hid in the 506th Parachute Regiment. They made 4 jumps into hostile territory. Two of the men, in the wartime film, putting camoflage paint on each other's faces are Pvt.Clarence Ware and Pvt. Charles Plaudo. A still shot of them is between pages 208 & 209 of George Koskimaki's "D-Day With The Screaming Eagles". PFC. McNiece survived the war. Stephen C. DeVito wrote "Fighting With The Filthy Thirteen: The World War II Story of Jack Womer, Ranger and Paratrooper". The 13 took part in Operation Market and was in The Bulge.

@SidneyBroadshead 2 жыл бұрын

The _Filthy Thirteen_ were a Pathfinder platoon. They were supposed to go behind enemy lines and designate landing zones for the rest of the division. They were the inspiration for the "Filthy Few" in the Hell's Angels. The Filthy Few would ride ahead and clear the campsite the rest of the group would use when they arrived. They were not allowed to bathe or wash their gang cuts (a denim vest with the gang's colors on the back).

@erswnn 2 жыл бұрын

A gun club in Pennsylvania, just outside of Philly has a 200 yard range named after Jack Agnew, one of the 13, or 18...numbers are unsure it seems. I was a member there and maintained the range along with others. We took pride in caring for his work and legacy. He built the original.

@leondillon8723 2 жыл бұрын

@@erswnn The number of men sent was set by the mission.

@erswnn 2 жыл бұрын

@@leondillon8723 Thank you for the clarification on the numbers I've read.

@gloria3098 3 жыл бұрын

the film was made at little chalfont buckinghamshire and i visited the set and met clint walker, and charles bronson in the little thatched cottage. nice day out

@MrRyomo 4 жыл бұрын

Dirty Dozen, one my favorites...," Major Riceman...That's Right ! "

@jimkennedy5202 4 жыл бұрын

Great video. Subscribed!

@magistrumartium 5 жыл бұрын

Lee Marvin actually took part in 21 landings on Pacific shores. He was shot up at Saipan, where most of his company was killed, and he got a Purple Heart. The memories haunted him for the rest of his life. He hated this movie because, he said, it's nothing like war at all.

@satchhuntzhall1 4 жыл бұрын

Telly Savals also got the purple heart

@mikegrossberg8624 6 ай бұрын

Marvin was right; it WASN'T a "war" movie It was a "caper" flick! In essence, it was like "Ocean's Eleven"; a group of men planning, and conducting, an operation against a target, whether casinos or a German occupied chateau, with the intent of either robbery or assassination! One other thing, Mr Marvin; if the movie wasn't made to MAKE MONEY, then what the HELL was it made FOR! I don't remember Hollywood being so altruistic that they would throw away a few million dollars without the expectation of getting at least SOME of it BACK!

@leggettnada1 4 жыл бұрын

WOW Jeff you really do your homework. I'm really impressed. You have a new subscriber. I love this channel. Because this was done three years ago I really hope this comment reaches you. I guess I'll never know... :( BTW I watched your vlog on It's A Wonderful Life and found it to be very informative plus it's my all time favorite Christmas movie. Thank you

@AMillionMovies 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I read every comment and appreciate the kind words. I’m glad you liked it.

@kevinnealon4321 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic and informative

@kenshores9900 5 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite movies.

@michaelmyers7425 Жыл бұрын

A great film for the whole family to watch together.

@davidfrost2819 3 жыл бұрын

You didn't mention that The Dirty Dozen was made entirely here in England. With a virtually all British crew and a few British actors like John Hollis who later appeared in The Empire Strikes Back, Flash Gordon and For Your Eyes Only

@roz7056 4 жыл бұрын

Private Benjamin took the whole war games scene from the Dirty Dozen

@maxinewatermaker6162 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, that movie springboarded Goldie Hawn to her breakout role in Wildcats

@antona.8659 4 жыл бұрын

Fifty+ years later, and it's still the gold standard for the men-on-a-death-misson movie. And I don't care if Tarantino fans will get mad (they will), but Inglorious Basterds is no match for the classic. I know it was only used as an inspiration, and I know it wasn't an action movie, but was I disappointed in how little stuff the so-called Basterds got to do. Their leading man kills only one unarmed guy in the whole movie while half of their teammates disappear from the script after they just appeared in the movie. The Dirty Dozen gives its character the due they deserve. Every character is integral to the movie's climax. And Major John Reisman goes full-on Wolfenstein mode on Nazis and doesn't just sit on his ass while his men die. This is a classic.

@grahck4391 4 жыл бұрын

John Wayne was asked to play Lee Marvin's role but he turned it down to film the Green Berets.

@michaelmorrismorris6113 4 жыл бұрын

the real Green Berets love that movie as it is pretty accurate, they think that Rambo is a comedy

@AndrewAMartin 4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmorrismorris6113 The Green Berets is about as accurate as any other propaganda movie, which is to say, not very... Now, Rambo is pure fantasy...

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

John Wayne also said that he wouldn't play in the Dirty Dozen because he didn't like the way the armed forces were portrayed in the script

@jameshuseby6290 4 жыл бұрын

Apparently you've never seen The Undefeated with John Wayne Rock Hudson and two LA Rams Players that never acted in their lives and apparently never had a acting lesson quarterback Roman Gabriel who also had the worst makeup job on to supposedly make him look like a Indian it was so red it literally looked like they painted it on his face with a paint brush and LA Rams DT Merlin Olsen in his first acting gig and neither one them had ever had a acting lesson and it showed the script was terrible too I suppose they wanted to be sure and cover all the bases if it wasn't so boring of a movie I could have tried to watch the whole thing to see if there were any more laughs than looking at and listening to Roman Gabriel and Merlin Olsen try to portray American Indian characters or watch John Wayne and Rock Hudson's stiff and lame so called acting

@joestephan1111 4 жыл бұрын

There is a Dirty Dozen film trailer that shows Lee Marvin on a rare filming day off spectating a British motocross. Marvin, who caught the motorcycle bug during the filming of the Wild One, in his younger years became an avid motorcycle racer.

@TheFacefinder 4 жыл бұрын

There was also an American military prison in Frankfurt, Germany that I toured enroute to my duty station at Field Station Augsburg (in the early 70's).

@augustinecerronejr7968 2 жыл бұрын

I saw the Dirty Dozen in the movie theater when I was 10. 1 of my favorite movies.

@ALLENWEIMER 3 жыл бұрын

I would recommend the movie Matewan for you to review. It starred Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Bob Gunton and several other famous actors

@petercole8798 2 жыл бұрын

They don't make actors like that any more. What a cast..

@mist_oldskoolakatherollinr616 5 жыл бұрын

Our Neighbour was Lee Marvins double.. I am going to inter him soon... I LOVE OUR NEIGHBOURS. STAY STRONG ❤️❤️❤️ I want to tell people about you P.. Xx

@akizeta 4 жыл бұрын

The scriptwriter of this movie, Lukas Heller, was a friend of my dad's, which is a bit weird, since my dad was a trawlerman based in Devon.

@hugh-johnfleming289 4 жыл бұрын

A fun movie but having studied the "European Theater" with modest diligence at the hand of some experienced and learned Academic it a somewhat preposterous idea. That being said it is a terrific story. I would tend to stand in Mr. Marvin's corner and rate 'The Big Red 1' as a finer effort but consider all of the components... primarily Fuller. It is a considered, beautiful piece of cinema dismissed by snobs because of subject and cast. Certainly worthy, in some form, of one of your essays.

@koroba01 4 жыл бұрын

Another movie that could have been aligned with the DD and that is The Professionals, of which Marvin and Ryan starred in. It’s about a railroad tycoon that brings together 4 professionals to bring back his supposedly kidnapped wife...great movie.

@davidweston8757 4 жыл бұрын

I was the girl Telly Savalas killed at the end of the movie. Still going strong at 82,

@monstersofthemidway7125 4 жыл бұрын

I don't know any girls with the first name "David"

@doughesson 4 жыл бұрын

@dbltrplx Sex change maybe?

@johnrogan9420 4 жыл бұрын

Very pretty!

@holton345 4 жыл бұрын

david weston - Well, I'm Telly Savalas. Nice to hear from you, Miss David.

@mrtulipeater 4 жыл бұрын

david weston volfgang, vor est du?

@MrsMcKee-og2yn 3 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed hearing the rarely mentioned information about the Dirty Dozen movie and actors. I did not know any of it. I love many of the movies made prior to the 1990s particularly 1932-1969. Would you feature unknown facts about Island In The Sun, The Heiress, and (1969's Slaves)? A Million Movies and Jerry Skinner's Star Biographies are a part of movie history in my opinion. During COVID-19 we cannot attend the Cinemas and A Million Movies was entertaining. I gave you a thumbs-up, a saved, and I subscribed. Thanks.

@AMillionMovies 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I’ll keep those movies in mind.

@orvillehusk7666 2 жыл бұрын

@@AMillionMovies do the great escape

@marccolten9801 4 жыл бұрын

My contributions: When the movie came out there were large posters on subway platforms in NYC with a glaring error. In the movie the mission was codenamed "Operation Amnesty" but the posters said it was "Operation Overleaf". This is from the line in the movie where Marvin is being briefed and told the full plan is described on the next page, "overleaf" There was also a T.V. ripoff called Garrison's Gorillas (1967-1968) based on the same idea.

@tolfan4438 4 жыл бұрын

Those posters were in Philly too

@josephspringer7432 4 жыл бұрын

In the May 2006 Special Edition DVD commentary for the film The Dirty Dozen, author E.M. Nathanson never mentions the "Filthy Thirteen" or anyone else from the 101st Airborne Division (as his inspiration for The Dirty Dozen). Nathanson does however reference a "small commando unit" made up of men who had been in the brig or had done hard time AND " ... who in late 1943 sailed to Europe on the troopship RMS EMPRESS of SCOTLAND," (formally known as RMS Empress of Japan). This was Nathanson referencing the multi-national US/Canadian commando unit, the First Special Service Force, who sailed to North Africa in November 1943. I suspect Nathanson read the fantastic article about the First Special Service Force in the April 1963 of SAGA magazine. In addition, around that same period of Nathanson's Dirty Dozen release, Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton released the book The Devil's Brigade, based on the First Special Service Force. Adleman/Walton wrote of the men of the Force who served hard time or were recruited from stockades. It truth there were less than fifty (as far as I've found) who were recruited (drafted) for the Force. They were doing time in east coast stockades, mostly around Norfolk. The commander of the FSSF, Colonel (General) Robert T Frederick, knew the unit was heading into combat in Italy where men were swallowed up as fast as snowflakes hitting warm ground. The FSSF had just 1,800 officers and men (perhaps less). Frederick needed numbers ... and he knew where to get fighters. Frederick avoided men who were doing time for capital crimes and only recruited those doing time for less serious infractions as AWOL, Drunk & Disorderly, Fighting, etc. Adleman/Walton exaggerated the "stockade soldiers" (later to be made into a 1968 film by United Artists) and (IMO) apparently Nathanson took note. Ultimately, the FSSF is the only source I've found where Nathanson admitted to finding his inspiration for the novel The Dirty Dozen. Nathanson is now gone. So, who really knows. ~Joe Springer~ Author of The Black Devil Brigade: The True Story of the First Special Service Force

@lancesurgeon7614 4 жыл бұрын

Dirty Dozen was also spoofed in “Top Secret".

@Macros1971 4 жыл бұрын

Good catch!

@cratus2748 4 жыл бұрын

@@Macros1971 if they ever did a remake of the dirty dozen here's what I got 1.)Connor McGregor 2.)Jon bernthal 3.)Matthew Alan 4.)Norman reedus 5.)Danny Trejo 9.)Travis fimmel 10.) Scott Adkins 11.)Charlie hunnam 12.) Cm punk

@Ricklawrence 4 жыл бұрын

Great video.

@docmalthus 4 жыл бұрын

You forgot to mention Devil's Brigade from 1968, which was practically a knock-off of The Dirty Dozen.

@ericseal4453 3 жыл бұрын

I thought that Victor Franco (John Cassavetes) was the one who was going to go crazy, at the Chateau scene at the end. Not Archer Maggot (Telly Savalas).

@Slipmahoney21 3 жыл бұрын

Charles Bronson..”Now I’m going to Emmetts fix it shop to fix Emmett!”

@twilightman2816 4 жыл бұрын

13. In the movie "Small Soldiers", the soldiers serving under the commanding officer toy soldier (voiced by Tommy Lee Jones) were ALL VOICED by "members" of "The Dirty Dozen". Ernest Borgnine voiced Kip Killigan (Kill Again) Jim Brown voiced Butch Meathook George Kennedy voiced Brick Bazooka Clint Walker voiced Nick Nitro kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtlla5ZlzcjXo4E.html even Dick Miller had an uncredited bit as an MP at the hanging.