Highly Entertaining.

Rating: 8/10 (6 September 2013)

Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, who is recruited by his superior officers to organize and lead a top secret mission comprised of 12 condemned military prisoners to infiltrate Germany, and kill a bunch of high-ranking Nazis in a castle fortress. Training these men(played by John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, among others) proves to be almost as difficult and dangerous as fighting the actual enemy! Superb cast shines in this grand World War II action adventure, well made and directed, it's long(but not overlong) and always involving, balancing humor and serious drama in exemplary fashion. Not always plausible I suppose, but great fun.