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This movie is a great movie and to have it on blu ray is amazing. The picture quality is perfect.
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I'll bet you're a big Lee Marvin fan (quite from Reservoir Dogs, Michael Madsen to Harvey Keitel). Well I am and this has been a classic for years. Still holds up, and the extra disc and special features were very well put together. Worth it.
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It's a given that this is a classic movie and I'm glad I added it too my DVD collection. You can definitely see a huge contrast in quality from the original film and the made for TV second Dirty Dozen. Lee Marvin even has the same or very similar lines from the film - which wasn't a good thing. You would have thought that the writer of the second movie would realize that this would be picked up by viewers. However, this Special DVD Edition is worth it to see and hear some of the actor's reviews who are still alive 40 years later - such as Clint Walker, George Kennedy, Donald Southerland, Jim Brown, Trini Lopez and Ernest Borgnine.
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When Memorial Day came this year, I realized so many young people in our family have little knowledge of what WW II was about, why we fought in it, or how that fighting happened. Then I discovered that our local library has almost no movies about WW II, and same at our local movie rental place. I watched this movie, and a couple of others, (The Longest Day, and Saving Private Ryan) with two of my grandchildren, just to give them an idea of the sacrifices made by others so they may enjoy their lives in freedom in this country. Even tho this plot mostly fiction, the basic idea of the obstacles to our freedom posed by our enemies comes through, and generated lots of useful questions from the young people. I am grateful to the film makers, too, for providing this means to educate our children. Schools seem not be be including a lot of important history these days.The Longest Day
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The main problem with The Dirty Dozen is that is shown virtually every night on a TV channel somewhere, so its difficult to justify owning the DVD at all. However this is a good film (and the package would make it 4 and half stars for me) and one I have watched over and over again.
It's an 'A' list cast:
Lee Marvin
Ernest Borgnine
Telly Savalas
Donald Sutherland
Charles Bronson
John Cassavetes (who was nominated for Best supporting actor in 1967)
Robert Ryan
The first 2/3 of the film works best where The Major (Marvin) has to train his bunch of no-hopers. Of course they are under-cover so he upsets some of the top brass and this leads to some run-ins with Col Breed (Ryan). These scenes are wonderfully done and the acting and the script all work brilliantly. For me the last part of the film is less successful. This is where they go into battle. I'm not sure why I find this less interesting, but perhaps its because really the Army is fighting itself in the first part of the film and as soon as they are fighting the Germans I don't care as much.
The extras are worthwhile in this release. There are some interesting commentaries from members of the original cast and a few 'experts'. On the 2nd disc you also get the 1985 sequel movie "The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission" (which still has members of the original cast in it), plus three documentaries.
So superb entertainment from director Robert Aldrich, which does hold up to repeated viewings - even if you have already seen it 25 times!
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