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Who gets killed when?

posted 18 years ago by matwsussx
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I loved the original Dirty Dozen and accept the t.v. movie sequels as entertaining pieces of action. I always liked the 2nd sequel the best but this one is ok. I saw this as a kid and had it on video years ago as Xmas present and have driven myself crazy sometimes trying to work out who gets killed when as most of the dozen are killed in the climax's made rush to the plane. It all happens so quick and from such far-out camera angles that you never know quite whom is getting killed.

Lets see....
1) Ken Wahl - survives
2) The country hick who flys the plane - survives
3) The tall shaven headed ginger-nut - survives
4) The negro sniper - killed
5) The German guy - killed and you know its him cos Lee Marvin turns him over
6) The French guy - i aways thought hes the one killed chasing after the truck with valuables in it.
7 + 8) The 2 guys killed in the bus (one seen, one mentioned)
9) Guy with bandage on arm - killed in rush to plane
10) Guy with bandage on head - 1st one killed in rush to plane, done in by grenade i think, dies on his back.
11) Sonny Landham - def killed whilst firing big machine gun.
12) Last guy to be killed, shot in back during plane rush and body seen face down.

I dunno. I need to get out more though.

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[–] matwsussx 18 years ago

i think Lee Marvin didnt need to ask about the Saxon character cos he saw him die with his own eyes. If you count the number of men following Marvin around in the next few scenes - the best one to do so is when they are hunched up in the car - there are only ten plus Marvin. i think Anderson was the big guy in the dozen who didnt say a word and obviously wasnt even granted an onscreen death. There were a lot of "dozen members" in the tv. movies that are killed off without barely a mention or a close-up. In the one where they attack the monastery the majority of the prisoners are all European actors with Russian/Slovakian sounding names (which is where the movie was filmed) whilst the main 5 or 6 GIs are all relatively familiar U.S. actors

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[–] jdh1271 18 years ago

Ken Wahl-Louis Valentine survived
The country hick is Tommy Wells-survived
The ginger-nut is Conrad Perkins-survived
The negro is Arlen Dregors-died on the plane after being shot through the stomach.
The German guy is Otto Deutsch-killed
French Guy is Didier Le Clair is killed when he and Wells are chasing the truck
Sonny Landham is Sam Sixkiller-killed
Robert Wright is shot by Sixkiller in the beginning of the mission.
Anderson dies when the bus flips over
Other die when heading for the plane. (Baxley, Sanders, Reynolds)

[–] Koosh_King01 15 years ago

There's also a handful of non-Dozen individuals who bite the dust:

General Sepp Dietrich - The target of the mission; Dregors snipes him and his blood gets all over Hitler (heh)
Colonel Schmidt - Dietrich's adjutant who he plays chess with; Dietrich shoots him for...some reason (they imply it's because Schmidt is suspicious of Dietrich's motives, but it's maddeningly unclear)
Unnamed German officer - Admonishes the Dozen for the state of their SS uniforms; killed in a firefight
Unnamed Gestapo agent - Spots Dregors' black hands at the airport (a scene which always reminded me of the one in Blazing Saddles); killed in car turnover
Unnamed bus driver - Drives the German bus which the Dozen "borrow"; shot in the back by the Gestapo agent (I assume this fellow was French Resistance but it's never said that I recall)

And lots and lots of German soldiers.