He followed that film with the hugely successful World War II epic The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ) in which top-billed Marvin again portrayed an intrepid commander of a colorful group ( future stars John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, and Donald Sutherland ) performing an almost impossible mission.

His remaining films were Death Hunt ( 1981 ) with Charles Bronson, Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Dog Day ( 1984 ), and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ( 1985 ; a sequel with Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Jaeckel picking up where they'd left off despite being 18 years older ); his final appearance was in The Delta Force ( 1986 ) with Chuck Norris.

* The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 )

* The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ( 1985 )

According to Michael Jeck's DVD commentary, Seven Samurai was among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean's Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven.

By the early 1960s films based on commando missions like The Gift Horse ( 1952 ) based on the St. Nazaire Raid, and Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1956 ) had begun to inspire fictional adventure films such as The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), The Train ( 1964 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ) and Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ), which used the war as the backdrop for spectacular action films.

* The Dirty Dozen

The sousaphone is an important fixture of the New Orleans brass band tradition, and is still used in groups such as the Dirty Dozen Brass Band by Kirk Joseph.

* 4th mission ( Restore Pride ): Taking down the German villa ( to cause confusion in the Wehrmacht's middle-level command ) is akin to " The Dirty Dozen ".

* 15th mission ( End of the Butcher ): An assassination mission as in " The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ".

A photograph in Stars and Stripes loosely inspired the exploits of PFC Jack Agnew in the 1965 novel and the 1967 film, The Dirty Dozen.

In 1929, the boogie-woogie pianist Speckled Red recorded a song entitled " The Dirty Dozen ", which includes lyrics such as " I like yo ' momma — sister, too / I did like your poppa, but your poppa would not do ./ I met your poppa on the corner the other day / I soon found out he was funny that way.

The series was inspired by a range of fictional media including The Dirty Dozen, Robin Hood, Brave New World, Star Trek, classic Westerns and real-world political conflicts in South America and Israel.

Series creator Terry Nation pitched Blake's 7 to the BBC as " The Dirty Dozen in space ", a reference to the 1967 Robert Aldrich film in which a disparate and disorganised group of convicts are sent on a suicide mission during World War II.

Robert Ryan was ultimately cast in the part after Peckinpah saw him in the World War II action movie The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ).

Ernest Borgnine was cast based on his performance in The Dirty Dozen.

Byrne wrote the Dirty Dozen Brass Band-inspired score for Robert Wilson's Opera The Knee Plays from The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down.

* The character " Maggot " from E. M. Nathanson's novel The Dirty Dozen was from Phenix City.

Hartford is the birthplace of actor Clint Walker, known for the television series Cheyenne and for the movies The Ten Commandments and The Dirty Dozen.

Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in popular war movies such as The Dirty Dozen, MASH and Kelly's Heroes, as well as characters in other popular films such as Klute, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, JFK, Ordinary People and, more recently, The Hunger Games as President Snow.

" Escape Route " was directed by the show's star, Roger Moore, who later recalled that Sutherland " asked me if he could show it to some producers as he was up for an important part ... they came to view a rough cut at the studio and he got The Dirty Dozen ".

Sutherland was then on course for the first of the three war films which would make his name: as one of the The Dirty Dozen in 1967, alongside Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson ; as the lead " Hawkeye " Pierce in Robert Altman's MASH in 1970 ; and, again in 1970, as hippy-like tank commander Sgt.

In 1968, after the breakthrough in UK-made The Dirty Dozen, Sutherland left London for Hollywood.

The World War II figure Jack Agnew ( 1922 – 2010 ), an inspiration for the novel and film, The Dirty Dozen, spent his last year at a retirement community in Hatboro.

* 1988-The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

* 1967 The Dirty Dozen -- John Poyner

* The song playing during the first bar-fight sequence is " La Grange " by ZZ Top, the same song that plays during The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 )- style, and in intro of the characters in Armageddon ( 1998 ), an earlier film which starred Owen Wilson.

His other movie credits include The Young Savages ( 1961 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), The Scalphunters ( 1968 ), supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Kelly's Heroes ( 1970 ), Pretty Maids All in a Row ( 1971 ), Inside Out ( 1975 ), and Escape to Athena ( 1979 ).

Savalas was memorable as the weirdly religious and very sadistic convict Archer Maggott in The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), the seminal ensemble action film by director Robert Aldrich.

* The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ) as Archer Maggott

The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 war film directed by Robert Aldrich and released by MGM.

* 1967: The Dirty Dozen

* Dirty Story ( 1967 )

** 1967: The Dirty Dozen ( the scene at the beginning of the training exercise )

Noteworthy police detective dramas of the period include The French film The Sleeping Car Murders ( 1965 ), In the Heat of the Night ( winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture in 1967 ), Bullitt, Madigan ( both 1968 ), Klute ( 1971 ), Electra Glide in Blue ( 1973 ), and two non-mysteries: Dirty Harry, and The French Connection ( both from 1971 ).

( 1962 ), Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ), The Flight of the Phoenix ( 1965 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), and The Longest Yard ( 1974 ).

( 1962 ), featuring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as spiteful sisters and faded child-actresses, the follow-up Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte, with Bette Davis as a Southern woman who lives in a mansion and thinks she is going insane ( both Joan Crawford and Davis were to appear, but Crawford left the film ); the sexually controversial The Killing of Sister George ( 1968 ); and the war film formula template, The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ).

* The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ) ( director )

* Dirty Old Man ( At the Age of Sixteen ) / Square Room-( August 1967 ), Sully Records 1021

* Dirty Old Man ( At the Age of Sixteen ) / Square Room-( December 1967 ) Tower ( newly-recorded versions of both tracks )

* The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 )

* Dalle Ardenne all ' inferno ( 1967 ) as Kristina von Keist ... aka Dirty Heroes ( Philippines: English title ) ( USA )