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...getting a bad name, but it still pays at the box office. Ask Director Robert Aldrich. His 1967 movie The Dirty Dozen made millions by drafting a gang of incorrigible convicts into a mission behind enemy lines. Too Late the Hero is a kind of sequel to The Dirty Dozen, based once again on a World War II suicide mission...
...most aggravating thing about Too Late the Hero is that Aldrich is a film maker of some accomplishment. He possesses a strong sense of atmosphere and characterization, and his actors all perform with roistering energy. Fraser whines expertly as a craven Scotsman, and Elliott proves once again that he is one of the most accomplished character actors at work in films today. Robertson gives his role just the right mixture of dumb impudence and shrewd calculation. And then there is Caine, an extraordinarily good performer with an apparent weakness for taking any role that comes along. Despite his mighty skills...
...strike began Monday morning when black students picketed the main classroom building, Aldrich Hall and distributed a statement entitled "Murder at Jackson State and Murder...
Harvard let loose with the big guns Saturday as the Crimson swept Brown in a doubleheader. 8-7, 8-4 at the Bruins'Aldrich-Dexter Field...
...money and the experience." From the scare flicks it was a struggle to MGM's The Dirty Dozen in 1968. As one of the bottom six of the Dozen, a slack-jawed soldier with a head as impenetrable as a Government-issue helmet, Sutherland so impressed Director Robert Aldrich that he ordered up the tour-de-farce scene where Sutherland impersonates a general and inspects the troops on an American Army base...