{"id":15397,"date":"2013-07-22T14:36:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T13:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=15397"},"modified":"2013-07-22T14:36:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T13:36:06","slug":"operation-dirty-dozen-making-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2013\/07\/22\/operation-dirty-dozen-making-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Dirty Dozen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An old behind-the-scenes featurette for The Dirty Dozen<\/a> offers a glimpse in how movies were marketed in a bygone era.<\/p>\n

Long before DVDs, the internet and viral marketing, there were making of featurettes which were used to plug forthcoming films.<\/p>\n

In a sense they were like short films, using B-roll footage and scripted voice-overs to describe the stars and production.<\/p>\n

They seem like a long way from how movies are pushed to audiences now, with fans at Comic-Con lapping up news of projects yet to be made.<\/p>\n

The Dirty Dozen remains one of the ultimate ‘guys on a mission’ film, a huge hit in 1967 that spawned numerous imitators such as Kelly’s Heroes<\/a> (1970) and was a big influence on Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds<\/a> (2009).<\/p>\n

Below you can see Lee Marvin filming the opening sequence and also grooving in 1960s London, along with Donald Sutherland, John Cassavetes and Jim Brown.<\/p>\n