The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988) (TV)

Director:

Lee H. Katzin

Writers (WGA):

Nunnally Johnson (characters in screenplay) and
Lukas Heller (characters in screenplay) ...

Release Date:

14 February 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | War

Plot:

A team of renegade soldiers of World War II try to avoid the constitution of the IV Reich. |

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Sequel | TV Sequel To Theatrical Movie

Cast

Telly Savalas	...	Maj. Wright
Ernest Borgnine	...	Gen. Worden
Hunt Block	...	Joe Stern
Matthew Burton	...	Gen. Richter
Jeff Conaway	...	Sgt. Holt
Alex Cord	...	Dravko Demchuk
Erik Estrada	...	Carmine D'Agostino
Ernie Hudson	...	Joe Hamilton
James Carroll Jordan	...	Lonnie Wilson
Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini	...	Tim Ricketts (as Ray Mancini)
John Matuszak	...	Fred Collins
Natalia Nogulich
Heather Thomas	...	Lt. Carol Campbell
Anthony Valentine
Richard Yniguez		(as Richard Yñiguez)

Also Known As:

Dirty Dozen 4 (International: English title) (informal title)
Dirty Dozen IV (International: English title) (informal title)
The Dirty Dozen 4 (International: English title) (informal title)
The Dirty Dozen IV (International: English title) (informal title)

Runtime:

Spain:100 min | USA:100 min

Country:

USA | Yugoslavia

Language:

German | Serbo-Croatian | English

Colour:

Colour (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Zagreb, Croatia

Company:

Jadran Film

Trivia:

The dozen are armed with M3 submachine guns, called 'Grease Guns' because of their resemblance one.

Goofs:

Factual errors: A US WWII M1 steel helmet consists of two major parts, the outer steel shell which affords some ballistic and fragmentation protection together with the inner lightweight (non-steel) helmet liner. Telly Savalas wears the helmet liner without the steel shell - that would never occur in combat. It is a common Hollywood war movie cheat to reduce fatigue and strain on the actor's head and necks.

Movie Connections:

Features Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) (TV)

Soundtrack:

In the Mood

Liverpool??????

Another made for TV piece of junk! This is an insult of a war movie (I use the word movie in it's loosest possible form!) I thought Telly Savalas's career had hit rock bottom when he did the voice over on that visit Birmingham video that's shown on Tarrant on TV on a semi regular basis, but then I'd forgot he was involved in this! I'd tried to push it into my subconscious memory, but cable TV brought the memory kicking and screaming out of me!!

I like the bit (laughs sarcastically!) in the film which claims to be a scene from Liverpool in the forties, but it's blatantly a shot of Zagreb Cathedral in the late eighties. Also the steam train the Commando's are training on shows the JZ (Jugoslavia Zeleznice, or Yugoslav state railways) logo's on the side of the locomotive quite clearly, even though the makers have tried to black them out. Why not just film in the UK, if that's where most of the film is set?

Cheap rubbish, and a waste of celluloid!