The Dirty Dozen

Directed by Robert Aldrich

Written by Nunnally Johnson, Lukas Heller

Cast: Lee Marvin as John Reisman, Ernest Borgnine as General Worden, Charles Bronson as Joseph Wladislaw, Jim Brown as Robert T. Jefferson, Richard Jaeckel as Sgt. Bowren, Telly Savalas as Archer Maggott, Donald Sutherland as Vernon Pinkley, Robert Ryan as Col. Breed, Clint Walker as Samson Posey

Released 1967

OSS officer Major John Reisman is directed "to undertake 'Project Amnesty', a top secret mission to train some of the U.S. Army's worst convicts into highly-skilled commandos to eliminate Wehrmacht officers at a château near Rennes, disrupting the German chain of command in northern France ahead of D-Day. If any of the convicts survive, they will be pardoned."