The Drink Choking Scene Was Improvised
Nunnally Johnson wrote the script for The Dirty Dozen and was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the project. On a few occasions, though, the members of the cast who participated in bringing his comments to life on film were given the opportunity to improvise. Borgnine is an excellent illustration of this. The soldiers’ antics cause General Worden to nearly choke on his rage, which is a wholly unexpected change of events for the character of the general.
The Drink Choking Scene Was Improvised
Several Spinoffs
If you’re like most people, you’re probably unaware that the adventures of The Dirty Dozen were elaborated upon in a variety of 1980s television and film spinoffs. When the Next Mission series was relaunched in 1985, Borgnine, Marvin, and Richard Jaeckel all returned to their roles. A few years later, Savalas appeared in The Deadly Mission, as Major Wright, who was in an entirely different movie from the one in which he appeared in The Deadly Mission. In the 1988 film The Fatal Mission, he co-starred with Ernest Borgnine, who was also in the picture. Additionally, in the same year, a brief television series with a completely different cast was broadcast on the station’s channel.
Several Spinoffs
