Robert Aldrich's 1967 film The Dirty Dozen is often cited as one of the most famous male films ever made. Set up in 1944, he followed the traces of the Major Johnon Reisman (Lee Marvin), as he was appointed to lead a 12-man ex-suitable and ultra-violent armies. Reisman is tasked with training some of the worst and worst people in the army, to get them to settle down and lead them in a secret mission in a Nazi stronghold in France. The soldiers are all terrible in one way or another, so their mission to kill Nazi higher windows offers them something violent heroically to do with their templates. In the dirty dozens were significant actors such as Charles Bronson, Johnon Casetets, Teli Savalas, Jimim Brown and Donald Sutherland. Ernest Borina played a colleague General.

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The Dirty Ten was a huge success, earning over $ 45 million at the box office with a budget of $ 5.3 million. Many critics have praised this, although most of the reviews have emerged with the extreme level of film violence. Aldrich made an sweaty, aggressive film that - in a side way - claims that military heroism and bloodshed, as concepts, have always been a little crazy. Interestingly, Aldrich has made some of the brightest, most testosterone dipped films of all time ("Flight of Phoenix", "Ten seconds to Hell", "The Longest Court"), but also some of the most incident and melodramatic ("What happened to the baby Janeain?" "Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte", "The Murder of Sister George"). Both gender halves of the director are celebrated by the cinemas.

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"Dirty Tens" is probably your father Aldrich's favorite movie, and many boys of a certain age probably have the experience of watching the film with their fathers. Of course, it is super-violent, but it celebrates its violence in a way that some audience members considered it vital; There is a reason why the boomer suffocates in "sleepless in Seattle" moving to tears only by describing it.

Did you know "Dirty Tens" there are four extensions? Yes, four of them.

It is just a similar thematic, but the "unofficial" sequel to "Dirty Tens" is Aldrich's film in 1970 "Too Late Hero", starring Finally, finally in retirement Michael Caine. That film was uploaded to the new Hebrides in the South Pacific in 1942 and followed a dirty dozens of British troops as they prepare to take a dangerous mission: the destruction of a Japanese radio transmitter. The British dozens are not as dirty as weak will, seeking similar "training" by the Heavy Nail Commander (Denholm Eliot). Kane plays the sarcastic, cocktail doctor on the line. In an interview in the 70'sAldrich said ABC Pictures wants him to make another "dirty tenth" as soon as the first has become a hit, but that "too late the hero" is the closest thing he prepared to leave. He also said he had rejected MGM's $ 9.7m budget offer, feeling too high for such a movie.

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Aldrich died in 1983, and just two years later, NBC began to strive for proper monitoring of the original "dirty dozen". This eventually led to "Dirty Tens: The Next Mission" in 1985, a TV film that returned Marvin and Borginine. Although it was made 18 years after the fact, the "next mission" was set only shortly after the original and saw Major Reisman training a new dirty dozens of convicts to take on another dangerous mission. This time, the dirty dozens are tasked with killing someone who wants to kill Adolf Hitler. The idea is that Hitler is such an incompetent leader that would more hurt Nazi military effort if he stayed alive. It is a strange sense, but one of the "Next Mission" crew had to rejoice. Larry Wilcox of Chips was one of the new dirty dozens.

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No one cared much about the "next mission", but that did not prevent studio directors from milking IP twice as much.

After the "next mission", Marvin was out, and other actors from the original film had to be brought to provide weak connection material. For TV film in 1987 "Dirty Tens: Deadly Mission", Salavas returned to repeat the role of Major Wright. Oh wait. Scratch it. Savalas returned, but very confusing, he played a new character. An actor named Wolf Caller of "Next Mission" has also returned, but he also featured a new character. Borginin, at least, played the same role. I think the audience only had to accept that Borgnn had now looked 20 years older, although World War II was still raging.

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There is another dirty tenth in a "deadly mission", and Wright is tasked with training them to infiltrate the Nazi poison factory in France to stimulate the axis' efforts to make deadly nerve gas. Bo Swenson, Randall "Tex" Cob and Gary Graham are among the new dozens. The film aired on March 1, 1987, and no one paid much attention.

Finally, Ann -Bi tried to continue Aldrich's film, last time in 1989 with "Dirty Tens: Fatal Mission" (and never bothered that "deadly" and "fatal" mean the same thing). The Savals returned once again to play Major Wright, this time with a truly bizarre mission. It seems that a splitter group of super-Nazi escaped from Germany and boarded a train from Munich to Turquie. The Nazi flee aims to settle in the Middle East and form a fourth Reich all theirs. Major Wright should recruit (Natch) 12 inmates in the army and lead them on a mission to stop the train. This time, the cast includes Eric Estrada and Ernie Hudson.

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Few also took care of the "fatal mission". Even less care for a completely vague TV series "Dirty Dozens", which runs only about a dozen episodes. Man, oh, man, someone did not want this franchise to die. Maybe they should have. Only two of the original members of "Dirty Dozens" are still alive today.