This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

A big bunch of great great actors in this, actors that I love very much, specially: Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Telly Savalas, George Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine, and John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland, Richard Jaeckel, Ralph Meeker, etc. Great director, Robert Aldrich, a man who made only super films like "Emperor of the North"(with the same Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine), "The Flight of the Phoenix"(again with Borgnine and George Kennedy), "4 for Texas"(with Charles Bronson and Richard Jaeckel), "Kiss Me Deadly"(with Ralph Meeker), "Vera Cruz"(with Bronson and Borgnine again), "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"(with the great Bette Davis). Great film, super action, well directed, well acted, one of the most popular film of all time.

A band of miscreants up to no good. Drinking stolen Thunderbird...egging each other on with loaves of bread ...manage to commit enough war crimes in every scene long enough to get into a good old fashioned brawl...this movie would be a hoax to the warehoused who are prisoners and criminally insane.The action falls apart like a moth in a blast furnace.Must not see.These later bunch of gangsters are sickening and a company of discarded scripts lit.taking refuge... for these hooligans to create these paper dragons.(you wouldn't expect such a bad movie with all that fuss)

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.

Over forty years and this movie continues to thrill and entertain. I have seen it several times. If you like the war film genre or just exciting action with ironic humor then you MUST make time to see the original Dirty Dozen.wow, I need ten linesCharles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Telly SavalisIf you are a young person then you might want to watch these actors - greats in their time. The movie does lack a significant female lead but that was typical for the times.