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THE DIRTY DOZEN
November 8, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Every time this 1967 WWII movie is televised, I like to point to a different performance and character, and it’s a trick that doesn’t seem to get tired. I could do it a dozen times, easy. And tonight, let’s look beyond the likes of Lee Marvin and Jim Brown, and pay special attention to Donald Sutherland. He has a minor role here – but three years later, in the delightful 1970 WWII movie Kelly’s Heroes, he, like Telly Savalas, managed to star in a comic variation on the same war-movie theme. Of course, while Savalas played the same same basic tough guy in both movies, Sutherland was a true study in contrasts.

 
 
 
 
 
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