Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
I’m not a real big fan of war movies, but when you put together a crazy-awesome cast like this, it really doesn’t matter what they end up doing, it’ll still be a good movie. And it is. It’s a good war movie.
An army colonel with a bad attitude is given twelve military convicts who are all sentenced to either die or be in prison for life. His mission: To train this rag-tag bunch of hoodlums into an elite strike team to go on a suicide mission and help end the war! Can they do it? HUH?! CAN THEY?!!
It’s funny that the plot to this movie is so amazingly cliche by now, but this is really the first big movie to do that. But again, the reason this movie is good is because of the amazing cast (of B-list actors, but still, they’re the best of the B-list, and this is very, very obviously a B-movie in itself). Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker… all the guys that I’m always relieved to see in a bad movie because I know that at least there’s someone good in it. And they’re all in one place! Wowsers!
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