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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Drama /
War /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Andrew V. McLaglen
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Actors:
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Claude Akins,
Jeremy Slate,
Jack Watson,
Bill Fletcher,
William Holden,
Cliff Robertson,
Vince Edwards,
Andrew Prine,
Richard Jaeckel,
Richard Dawson
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Duration:
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130 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)58
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Plot Summary:
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During World War II a specialized fighting section is formed combining a crack Canadian outfit and a conglomeration of US Army misfits previously serving frequently in military jails. After an initial period of conflict between the two groups, their enmity turns to pay homage to and friendship and the unit is sent Italy to take a crack at a dangerous mission which has heretofore been considered preposterous to successfully complete.
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The Devil's Brigade
This may be a brazen rip-remote of Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen, but at least it's based on truth. Morosely, that's the best that can be said of this under-par wartime adventure from head Andrew V MacLaglen that contains past-the-numbers manners scenes and situations that are unequivocally predictable. The normally exuberant William Holden seems becalmed by the surrounding cheerlessness, playing the officer who's ordered to train a class of thugs to fight the Nazis in the Norwegian mountains, all the same the picture did reunite him with his real-life friend Bluff Robertson who had his ahead passable duty opposite Holden in Torture in 1955. Dana Andrews and Vince Edwards are the mere supporting actors while Patric Knowles makes a to the point bearing as Admiral Cou...
The Devil's Brigade
Outwardly based on fact, this emerges as a tolerably slavish reprise of Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen. This delay globe-shaped,...
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