
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
Cast

Lee Marvin
Maj. John Reisman

Ernest Borgnine
Maj. Gen. Worden

Charles Bronson
Joseph Wladislaw

Jim Brown
Robert Jefferson

John Cassavetes
Victor Franko

Richard Jaeckel
Sergeant Bowren

George Kennedy
Major Max Armbruster

Trini López
Pedro Jiminez

Ralph Meeker
Captain Stuart Kinder

Robert Ryan
Col. Everett Dasher Breed

Telly Savalas
Archer Maggott

Donald Sutherland
Vernon Pinkley

Clint Walker
Samson Posey

Robert Webber
General Denton

Tom Busby
Milo Vladek

Ben Carruthers
Glenn Gilpin
Stuart Cooper
Roscoe Lever

Robert Phillips
Cpl. Morgan - MP Guard

Colin Maitland
Seth Sawyer

Al Mancini
Tassos Bravos
George Roubicek
Pvt. Arthur James Gardner
Thick Wilson
Gen. Worden's Aide

Dora Reisser
German Officer's Girl
Michael Anthony
German Officer in Staff Car (uncredited)
Leo Britt
German General in Staff Car (uncredited)

Alan Chuntz
French Servant (uncredited)

Gary Files
Ambulance Driver (uncredited)

Judith Furse
Drunken General's Wife (uncredited)
Hal Galili
MP Master Sergeant / Hangman (uncredited)
Romo Gorrara
Airborne Soldier (uncredited)

Willoughby Gray
German Officer (uncredited)

Gerard Heinz
Card-Playing German Officer (uncredited)

John G. Heller
2nd German Sentry at Chateau (uncredited)
George Hilsdon
Medical Officer at Hanging (uncredited)

John Hollis
German Porter at Chateau (uncredited)

Alf Joint
German Sentry Wanting Light (uncredited)
Juba Kennerley
German Officer (uncredited)

Hildegard Knef
(uncredited)

Ann Lancaster
Prostitute (uncredited)

Richard Marner
German Sentry at Chateau (uncredited)

Dick Miller
MP at Hanging (uncredited)

Lionel Murton
MP Lt. Col. in charge at hanging (uncredited)

Suzanne Owens-Duval
Prostitute (uncredited)

Mike Reid
Sergeant at War Games HQ (uncredited)
Terry Richards
Staff Sergeant MacIntosh Blake (uncredited)

Frederick Schiller
Drunken German General (uncredited)
Richard Shaw
German Officer Who Seals the Bunker (uncredited)

Warren Stanhope
German Officer (uncredited)

Hedger Wallace
German Officer (uncredited)
Theodore Wilhelm
German Officer (uncredited)

Rocky Taylor
Airborne Soldier (uncredited)
Burnell Tucker
Army Doctor (uncredited)

Vicki Woolf
Prostitute (uncredited)

Michael Segal
Airborne Band Conductor (uncredited)
Gerry Crampton
Staff Sergeant Alistair Clayton (uncredited)
Jack Carter
Military Policman (uncredited)
Crew

Robert Aldrich
Director

Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay
Lukas Heller
Screenplay
E.M. Nathanson
Novel

Michael Luciano
Editor
William Parnell
Assistant Editor
Edward Scaife
Director of Photography
Bert Batt
Assistant Director
Kenneth Hyman
Producer
Raymond Anzarut
Associate Producer
Alan McCabe
Camera Operator
Ernest Gasser
Makeup Artist
Wally Schneiderman
Makeup Artist
Colin Grimes
Assistant Art Director
Claude Hitchcock
Sound Designer
Franklin Milton
Sound Designer
John Poyner
Sound Editor
Van Allen James
Sound Editor
Aaron Rochin
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Cliff Richardson
Special Effects

Frank De Vol
Original Music Composer
Tim Hutchinson
Set Designer
Larry Shaw
Still Photographer
Angela Allen
Script Supervisor
Jim Dowdall
Stunts, Stunt Double, Armorer

Loren Janes
Stunts
Terry Richards
Stunts
Maurice Marks
Stunts
Romo Gorrara
Stunts
Terence Plummer
Stunts

Roy Scammell
Stunts

Paul Weston
Stunts
Joe Powell
Stunts

Mike Reid
Stunts

Alan Chuntz
Stunts
Ken Buckle
Stunts
Bernard Barnsley
Stunts
Mark McBride
Stunts
Joe Dunne
Stunts

Alf Joint
Stunts

Rocky Taylor
Stunts

Nosher Powell
Stunts
Rick Lester
Stunt Driver
Gerry Crampton
Stunt Coordinator
Mickey Lennon
Assistant Property Master
David Wynn-Jones
Clapper Loader
Julian Mackintosh
Production Manager
William Hutchinson
Art Direction
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