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Release year: 1987

Storyline

During WW2, American General Worden orders Major Wright to pick 12 condemned soldiers from the brig and parachute into occupied France where they must destroy a Nazi nerve gas facility and extricate the foreign scientists working there.

Top credits

Directors

Lee H. Katzin

Writers

Cast

Telly Savalas — Maj. Wright
Ernest Borgnine — General Sam Worden
Vince Edwards — Sgt. Holt
Bo Svenson — Maurice Fontenac

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Did you know

• Ernest Borgnine is the only actor from the original The Dirty Dozen (1967) movie to appear in all four original "Dirty Dozen" movies [See: The Dirty Dozen (1967) ; The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985) ; The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) and The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988)]

• Lee Marvin was too ill to reprise his role as Major Reisman.

• The character of Major John Reisman played by Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen (1967) and The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985) does not appear in this movie nor in the next "Dirty Dozen" TV movie sequel, The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988). His character was replaced by the character of Major Wright for these two movies and is played by Telly Savalas. Savalas had appeared in the original The Dirty Dozen (1967) movie as Archer Maggott where his character was killed-off.