The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
| The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission | |
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| Genre | Action War |
| Written by | Mark Rodgers |
| Directed by | Lee H. Katzin |
| Starring |
Telly Savalas Ernest Borgnine Vince Edwards Bo Svenson Wolf Kahler Vincent Van Patten Randall "Tex" Cobb |
| Music by | John Cacavas |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) | David Gerber |
| Producer(s) |
Mel Swope Clive Reed (associate producer) Boris Gregoric (associate producer) |
| Location(s) |
Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia Zagreb, Croatia Brezice, Slovenia |
| Cinematography | Tomislav Pinter |
| Editor(s) |
Ronald J. Fagan Ronald LaVine Richard E. Rabjohn |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
MGM/UA Television Jadran Film |
| Distributor | NBC |
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| Original network | NBC |
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The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission is a 1987 made-for-TV film and is the second sequel to the original The Dirty Dozen. It features an all-new 'dirty dozen,' this time under the leadership of Major Wright (Telly Savalas), playing a different role than in the 1967 film.
Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.
The film opens with Major Wright fighting alongside Italian partisans in a town near Turin. While the partisans battle the occupying German soldiers in the streets, Major Wright enters a bordello in search of Benito Mussolini. However, after shooting up a closet only to find a dead German officer, Wright is informed by one of the women that 'Il Duce' had already left town. Disappointed, Major Wright opens the window to the sound of the victorious partisans and lifts a glass of brandy to "Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Spencer Churchill."
Back in England, Major Wright is summoned to the U.S. Army Headquarters by General Worden (Ernest Borgnine), and is informed that the Germans appear to have the capability to send long-range missiles filled with deadly nerve gas to America. General Worden then orders Major Wright to "find another dirty dozen" and take them deep into occupied France to the monastery at Saint-Michel, where six captured scientists are being forced by the Nazis under the direction of the SS Colonel Krieger (Wolf Kahler) to produce the deadly gas, and destroy the containers of nerve gas and rescue the scientists.
Joe Stern - sentenced to death by hanging for drunkenly (Stern claims he wasn't drunk) killing an Englishmen in a bar; Stern is a Jewish refugee from Germany with a history of petty theft and gun smuggling. Joe Stern also isn't his real name, but his real name isn't important as "everyone who had it is probably dead."
Eric 'Swede' Wallan - sentenced to death by hanging; killed two British citizens who tried to rob him by crushing their skulls with his bare hands.
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