The film of the week this time is THE DIRTY DOZEN.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061578/

Lee Marvin is one of the the manliest actors ever. He just looks like someone who could beat you up by staring at you. Speaking of badass, this film also has Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, and John Cassavetes. It's an overdose of testosterone. Really that should be enough to convince you to watch the film, but I suppose you probably want to know about a plot of some kind. The Dirty Dozen is about a US Army Major who is assigned to train a dozen convincts to do a mass assassination mission of German officers in WW2. The director of this film Robert Aldrich is quite underrated. He made this, The Longest Yard, Kiss Me Deadly, and a few other films I really like.

What Makes this film so good is the characters. They don't exactly have a lot of depth, but to be fair there are a lot of them. The German assassination mission is the reason these men are together, but the best part of the film to me is how they are forced to unite against American General Staff who want to shut the operation down. Heck their mission isn't really mentioned until later in the film. The men's anti establishment behavior toward the American General staff makes this film very entertaining. It helps that the action scenes later on are very well done, and have aged surprisingly well.