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With the WBZ book Club. I'm
Jordan Rich. Movie lovers might like this

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one. Killing Generals The Making of
the Dirty Dozen, most iconic World War

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Two movie of all time. It's
by Dwayne Epstein, and it comes to

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mind with the recent passing of actor
and football star Jim Brown. This film

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tells the inside story of the ragtag
group of criminals and nutcases coming under the

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command of Lee Marvin, who takes
them on a suicide mission to destroy a

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Nazi compound. I love the film. I've seen it many times, enjoying

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the work of Robert Ryan and Charles
Bronson, John Cassavetti's Lee Marvin, of

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course, and at his villainous best, Telly Savalis. It's a late sixties

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film that inspired many directors, a
war movie that became an all time cult

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classic, breaking a lot of rules
along the way. Killing Generals The Making

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of the Dirty Dozen, the most
iconic World War Two movie of all time.

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