1967/06/15 (US) | Action, Adventure, War
Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay
Lukas Heller
Screenplay
Robert Aldrich
Director
Lee Marvin
Maj. John Reisman
Ernest Borgnine
Maj. Gen. Worden
Charles Bronson
Joseph Wladislaw
Jim Brown
Robert Jefferson
John Cassavetes
Victor Franko
Richard Jaeckel
Sergeant Bowren
George Kennedy
Major Max Armbruster
$ 5,400,000
$ 45,300,000
Released
E.M. Nathanson
Novel
Michael Luciano
Editor
Franklin Milton
Sound Designer
Claude Hitchcock
Sound Designer
Edward Scaife
Director of Photography
Cliff Richardson
Special Effects