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LOVE this film!

posted 17 years ago by rogerscorpion
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I saw it during its original run. Silva rocked, but the entire cast was very good.

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[–] bmodica 16 years ago

I saw this when I was 13, and was SHOCKED when the woman breast-fed her baby. The same baby Henry Silva accidently murdered later on. What a thrill for a young teen-ager.

Billy the Kid

[–] rogerscorpion 15 years ago

I, too, saw the original run. I was 14. Silva rarely has had parts that good.
And this was a Roger Corman film!

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[–] britten_mark 15 years ago

I came on here trying to find out about a film , parts of which have stayed with me for some time, I only watched it once maybe 30 years ago. This is the one where the baby is accidentally smothered whilst being kept quiet, right? And didn't Mickey Rooney have his fingers broken whilst being tortured?

Winston Wolf: "Well, let's not start suckin' each others dicks just yet......"

[–] bmodica 15 years ago

Britten, the baby was smothered, but I don't recall Micky Rooney. I saw this film more than 40 years ago, once. But it does ound familiar.

Billy the Kid

[–] ksf-2 15 years ago

pls remember to use spoilers alerts in these posts for those of us who havent seen the film yet... Jeez

[–] bmodica 15 years ago

Oh give it a rest, ksf. This movie is long forgotten; is shown on TV maybe once a decade. It's not as if I said "Rosebud" or "I see dead people".
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[–] britten_mark 15 years ago

Agreed, if you are going to watch a film, watch it, don't go digging around the smallprint and footnotes of forums and then get humpty when you find stuff out about it!

Winston Wolf: "Well, let's not start suckin' each others dicks just yet......"

[–] railyard 15 years ago

Mickey Rooney ruined this film with his Irish accent and always looking for a bottle. He acted like the dumb companion of the stalwart hero in many a western. If he just played it straight, it would have been OK. And how about Kookie's Hair? I don't think they had hairdos for men like that during World War II. And Raf Vallone was monotonous sounding like a priest giving a sermon all the time.

[–] intexor 12 years ago

I liked it a lot too. Pretty underrated and unknown movie, which is strange to me because Corman is such a legend and quite a few people like the typical low-budget Corman productions. He certainly didn't disappoint in my opinion with this studio production. It's also strange that The Dirty Dozen went on to become a classic, the benchmark for what I call WW2 mission movies (stories not based on real life events and about a group of men performing some act of sabotage), while a movie that did it all years before went on to be forgotten by most. I do think The Dirty Dozen is a slightly better movie but this one deserves recognition too and should definitely be recommended to people who like The Dirty Dozen.