United Kingdom, United States of America

ActionAdventureWarBritish MoviesEnglish MoviesHollywood MoviesDual Audio

MissionBased on novel or bookNaziSecret missionWorld war iiCastleHand grenadeTrainingUs armyFistfightShootoutSuicide missionSoldierExplosionCommandoBehind enemy linesMilitary police

Robert Aldrich

Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy

Lukas Heller, Nunnally Johnson

Seven Arts Pictures, MKH, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Taglines: Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.

Reviews:

Author: talisencrw
I loved this. Right up there with my favourite Aldrich films (though maybe 'Kiss Me Deadly' is still my number one), and of the greatest performances of both Lee Marvin and John Cassavetes (who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at both the Golden Globes and Oscars for his work here). This hearkened back to the heady times when if you got a great cast and director together, you were virtually guaranteed you'd come out of it, because of comparatively little studio interference, with a bonafide classic piece of cinema. People thought the studio system was broken and needed fixing, by films such as 'Easy Rider'? THIS, along with other fine Aldrich works from this period, age a lot better and hold up much finer today than Dennis Hopper's so-called 'masterpiece' and its ilk.