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Format: DVD August 29, 2023
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They had no rules, no plan and no way out! This riveting adventure stars Michael Caine as a fuel expert hired to aid a renegade troop on a sure-fire suicide mission: Cross the unforgiving Sahara Desert and destroy a strategic Nazi oil reserve.
Genre: Drama
Format: NTSC, DVD
Contributor: Nigel Green, Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Andre De Toth
Language: English
Runtime: 118 minutes
MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions : 0.5 x 5.35 x 7.5 inches; 2.72 ounces
Director : Andre De Toth
Media Format : NTSC, DVD
Run time : 118 minutes
Release date : August 29, 2023
Actors : Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green
Studio : Allied Vaughn
Country of Origin : USA
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So glad this was finally rereleased and made available. One of Caines best sleeper films that so few of us have seen as its been hidden or tucked away for so long.
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2025 by Urban Farmer
If you enjoy movies like Tobruk or the old Sahara movie with Humphrey Bogart or the current series Rogue Heroes, you probably will find this entertaining. Michael Caine and Nigel Green.
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2025 by EastBayBear
I kind of love Play Dirty. I like how cool Michael Caine is in this movie and how he works with the other actors, even though I’m not sure any of the characters make that much sense. I love how brutal and unforgiving the desert is—how our heroes don’t just get thirsty or stuck in sand—though they sure do get stuck in sand. I like how nasty, brutish and short the combat is. You might not love it; you might find it too cynical (it certainly revels in its cynicism) or think there are stretches where nothing happens or not find the characters particularly sensical. You wouldn’t hurt my feelings if you felt that way, but I really enjoy watching this movie, even though it’s flawed. I keep coming back to the feeling that the movie is just cool; it looks cool, and its attitude is not like other war movies. It’s like Where Eagles Dare for grownups. I need to write a whole essay to explain that idea, but I don’t want to. Where Eagles Dare is a romantic idealization of war and the people involved, with an intricate plot and, eventually, with clear good guys and bad guys. Play Dirty may have no good guys—or the people we think are bad may be good—or good and bad may be inadequate concepts. In both movies you want to be the protagonists anyway because they act and dress cool and have cool guns. Play Dirty somehow meets that childish need I admit I have while not romanticizing war, or at least not over-romanticizing it. If it weren't for Ice Cold in Alex, I would say this is the best World War II desert movie
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Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2023 by Kenny Broyles
A previous reviewer has done an excellent job describing the movie's plot and characters. I would like to emphasize that Play Dirty, in my opinion, is one of the more accurate portrayals of the North African theater of operations in World War 2. I have been hooked on this movie for almost 30 years! I watch it probably 6-8 times a year and never tire of it! Michael Caine is fabulous as Captain Douglas. It is rewarding to watch as Captain Douglas learns the ropes, gains confidence and ultimately, some respect from his group. I like the ironic plot twist that has Captain Douglas group succeed when the High Command suddenly does not want them to! I rank this movie as one of my all time favorites right up there with the Desert Rats (Richard Burton)The Desert Rats and The Desert Fox (James Mason)The Desert Fox which I also very highly recommend! There is also a real good Italian film titled El Alamein that you may equally enjoy!El Alamein Two other titles came to mind after I wrote this review: Humphrey Bogart's classic Sahara Sahara and another oldie but goodie Five Graves to Cairo Five Graves to Cairo.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2008 by P. A. Panozzo
This is a good movie, though it does not have the magic it held when I first saw it as a kid. PLAY DIRTY was another film I missed seeing on the wide screen in a cinema. It was not until years later that I saw the "edited for television" version on a TV network's movie of the week. Remember back then there were only three networks: CBS, NBC and ABC. At the time I was just getting interested in military history with my primary inspiration coming from war movies. PLAY DIRTY was essentially a grittier version of television's RAT PATROL. Back in the early 1970s I would have ranked this movie as one of the best war films ever made. It might also be that my parents bought their first color television about that time and PLAY DIRTY was one of the first televised movies I was able to watch in color. The story: A small group of ad hoc commandoes is dispatched behind enemy lines to destroy a remote German fuel dump. The group is led by two officers Captain Douglas (Michael Caine) and Captain Leech (Nigel Davenport). Unbeknownst to our heroes they are considered expendable rejects by their superiors and have been sent out on their mission as decoys. The actual raiding force subsequently sets off into the Qattara Depression with a considerably beefed up force. Unfortunately the main force blunders into a deadly German ambush while the "decoys" watch undiscovered from the safety of a nearby escarpment. The desert force penetrates fuel depot only to find that it is a dummy installation. In pursuit of the real depot they make their way into a Libyan coastal town where they are betrayed to the Germans by their own superiors. As the British Eighth Army is now pursuing the Germans into Libya, and thus in desperate need of captured fuel, the original mission is scrubbed. Failing to contact the commandoes the British leak their mission to the Germans. Michael Caine plays the part of Captain Douglas, a British officer on loan from British Petroleum, whose primary mission was to oversee the unloading fuel in Egypt. As his position is deemed superfluous he is assigned to the decoy team to satisfy the requirement to have a British officer along. Nigel Davenport is Captain Leech, a hardened and battle wise veteran who spends most of his time behind enemy lines attired in various enemy uniforms. Unfortunately his most recent failed raids, as well as his stint in jail, likewise deem him as expendable. A majority of the film focuses on the conflict and competition between the two officers with Douglas being the more academic problem solving officer and Leech as the experienced desert raider. As you might expect they eventually develop professional respect for one another. PLAY DIRTY has not held up well over the years. The movie is punched full of musical cues beginning with the theme music, Lili Marlene, in German. Later scenes are accompanied by Italian and other German music blasting from the team's portable radio. Out of place music worked in BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID and KELLY'S HEROES, but is a distraction in PLAY DIRTY. There are also an excess of zoom in and zoom out shots. Again, this technique was very common in films of the late 1960s and early 1970s. There is also a very lengthy sequence of vehicles being winched up the steep escarpment. It is one of those scenes where you have already gotten the point when the first vehicle reaches the top and it is not necessary to spend as much time with the remaining jeep and truck. The combat scenes are limited to two major engagements. The first is the ambush of the main British raiding force and the second are the pyrotechnics during the destruction of the fuel depot. On the other hand there is a good segment involving the team crossing rocky terrain. So rocky that they find themselves short of spare tires to replace those damaged by the rough ground. This sequence is worthy of some of the stories written about the Long Range Desert Group. In many respects PLAY DIRTY looks like it could have been a television movie. The plot is one typical of 1960s and early 1970s commando-type fare where a select group sneaks behind enemy lines, plan goes awry, yet the target is successfully destroyed anyway. The story gets a bit confusing with the team switching back and forth between Italian and German uniforms. At one point we see the team armed with Spanish Z-45 submachine guns, a postwar Spanish copy of the German MP-40, and later carrying German MP-40 Schmeissers. PLAY DIRTY was one of several films devoted to special operations teams aimed at destroying the Afrika Korps' fuel supplies. The original, of course, was the 1943 Billy Wilder film FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO. A year prior to PLAY DIRTY there was a similar storyline in TOBRUK where a long range patrol sets out to destroy Rommel's heavily guarded fuel. In 1971 there would be a remake, of sorts, of TOBRUK with borrowed footage to create RAID ON ROMMEL. If you take time to think about it the portrayal of war in North Africa is almost always tied to fuel or water. PLAY DIRTY was primarily lensed in Almeria, Spain. Almeria was a common location for movie making involving desert venues. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, PATTON, and numerous other films have used southeastern Spain to portray various desert locations. Without looking too hard you will recognize some familiar first season RAT PATROL film locations. The widescreen DVD copy of the movie is very good quality. Indeed the DVD was the first time I ever saw the complete film. I was somewhat disappointed in that there were no special features - not even an original movie trailer. So be it. I encountered the same malady when I finally got around to buying a DVD version of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. The price was right and the DVD finally replaces my tired old 1980s heavily edited VHS copy.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2009 by Kevin R. Austra
I love history and movies that follow detail actions that defined the hardships of WWII veterans. Play Dirty lives up to all that. Michael Caine is the reluctant hero thrust into commanding an odd group of commandos on a mission to destroy a fuel depot deep behind German lines. Nigel Davenport is superb as the criminal anti-hero and the tense relationship between him and Caine keep you interested. This movie describes the hardships of desert warfare in true form. It is vast, dangerous, edge-of-your-seat action that won't leave you disappointed. David Lucero, author of THE SANDMAN
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Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2011 by David Lucero