The Dirty Dozen

“Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!”

Twelve American soldiers, most of them waiting on death sentences for violent crimes, are offered a deal in 1944: train as commandos and raid a château full of Nazi officers, and their sentences may be commuted. Robert Aldrich puts them under Maj. John Reisman (Lee Marvin), who has to turn a mess of convicts into a unit before the Normandy landings. Reisman answers to Maj. Gen. Worden (Ernest Borgnine), and neither man trusts the other.