The movie was excellent. To me, it was a very funny version of the movie Dirty Dozen (although the Dirty Dozen did not come until 1967). In the movie Dirty Dozen, Lee Marvin tells the prisoners that if one screws up, the others go right back to prison, so therefore, they are depend on each other. Since he is in charge of the mission, Marvin also realizes that his life also depends on them too and pointed out that fact to his superiors.
In the movie Ten Tall Men, Burt Lancaster says almost the same thing: "The main reason we're going to do it is we have no other choice. And just one other thing: each man has got to depend on the next man. I'm going to see to it that the next man doesn't let him down." Only difference is that Lancaster has two corporals to back him up while Marvin has the MP sergeant to help him out plus the men under Lancaster's command are not facing a death sentence or long imprisonment for murder. The insults at the wedding and the big brawl which occurred was the highlight of the movie. It's too bad that the movie not available on DVD and I don't know why TMC doesn't have it in its inventory of movies to be purchase.
In the movie Ten Tall Men, Burt Lancaster says almost the same thing: "The main reason we're going to do it is we have no other choice. And just one other thing: each man has got to depend on the next man. I'm going to see to it that the next man doesn't let him down." Only difference is that Lancaster has two corporals to back him up while Marvin has the MP sergeant to help him out plus the men under Lancaster's command are not facing a death sentence or long imprisonment for murder. The insults at the wedding and the big brawl which occurred was the highlight of the movie. It's too bad that the movie not available on DVD and I don't know why TMC doesn't have it in its inventory of movies to be purchase.