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The Dirty Dozen
Why this pick
Its wartime mission assembles condemned, unruly men under hard military command, delivering the same abrasive team dynamics, cynical humour and escalating behind-enemy-lines pressure.
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MOVIE1969 1h 58m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
During the North African Campaign in World War II, Captain Douglas (Michael Caine) is a British Petroleum employee secondment to the Royal Engineers to oversee incoming fuel supplies for the Eighth Army (United Kingdom). Colonel Masters (Nigel Green) commands a special raiding unit composed of convicted criminals, and after a string of failures he is told by his commander, Brigadier Blore (Harry Andrews), that he must have a regular officer to lead a dangerous last chance mission to destroy an Afrika Korps fuel depot, lest his unit be disbanded. Despite Douglas' objections, he is chosen for his knowledge of oil pipelines and infrastructure. Douglas is then introduced to Cyril Leech (Nigel Davenport), a convicted criminal rescued from prison to lead Masters' operations in the field.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Nigel Davenport
Capt. Cyril Leech
Daniel Pilon
Capt. Allwood (Blore's adjutant at Special Forces HQ)
Patrick Jordan
Maj. Alan Watkins
Harry Andrews
Brig. Blore
Michael Caine
Capt. Douglas
Nigel Green
Col. Masters