 is that I saw The Dirty Dozen when it came out in 1967. That was the Robert Aldrich World War II film about a major, played by Lee Marvin, who gathers together 12 hardened convicts from military prison to undertake a dangerous mission. It was not realistic, but very popular, with a lot of big names in the cast, like Robert Ryan and Charles Bronson. One of The Dirty Dozen was a dim-witted psychopath named Vernon Pinkley.