Saugatuck Red Barn Theatre Movie Night- "The Dirty Dozen"

Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Start Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Red Barn Theatre

Category: Saugatuck & Douglas Events

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The Red Barn Theater’s film series continues April 24 with “The Dirty Dozen," the classic 1967 war movie starring Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine and a great ensemble cast playing a host of reprehensibles especially trained to assassinate Nazi officers.

Directed by Robert Aldrich and written by Nunnally Johnson, the film won an Oscar for best effects and John Cassavettes was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. “Dirty” was also nominated for a host of other awards.

The action ensemble featured Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Cassavetes, Richard Jaekel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, and Clint Walker. Marvin plays a major with a bad attitude but ways of getting things done. His mission is to take a bunch of Army prison fodder and lead a stealth attack on a posh vacation chateau for German officers in occupied France, in hopes of disrupting German command before D-Day.

The convicts include Wladislaw (Bronson), a German-speaking former officer who attacked a superior rather than follow a stupid order, black activist Jefferson (Brown), gangster Franco Cassavetes), psychopath Maggott (Savalas), and mentally slow Pinkley.

Much of the film covers the training of the group and the harsh discipline Major Reisman (Marvin) lays down to convert the misfits into a team. Once they land in France, all hell breaks loose and the ensuing action is brilliantly directed and acted.

Join host John Hardy at 7 p.m. in front of The Big Screen at The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Suggested donation is $5. Free popcorn from CNJ Popcorn Co. and $1 concessions. Call (269) 857-5300 for more information or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net.


Location Details

Red Barn Theatre
63RD & Blue Star Hwy.
Saugatuck Mi 49453

Location Phone: 269-857-5300