50 Greatest Action Movies Of All Time

16. The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Thanks to an ingeniously simple set-up and a cast so macho that they make The Expendables look like a knitting circle, the action-packed, violent and often very funny Dirty Dozen remains one of the greatest boys-own adventure movies ever made.

Lee Marvin leads the group of military misfits, tasked with launching what is essentially a suicide mission in Nazi-occupied France. The movie's cast of well-developed characters, sense of realism and string of thrilling action scenes have gone on to inspire almost every 'men on a mission' movie since.