9 Film Characters Who Randomly Disappear With No Explanation

4. Pedro Jiminez - The Dirty Dozen

World War II assassination ensemble The Dirty Dozen stars a range of amazing actors including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown and John Cassavetes. The film also starred Trini Lopez, the massively successful musician, as Pedro Jiminez. Jiminez is present for most of the film's first half, including all the training sequences in the second act.

After that, however, he disappears, not taking part in the mission he was trained for and reducing the dozen down to eleven. In the real world, what actually happened was that Lopez found musical success with his cover of Pete Seeger and Lee Hays' If I Had A Hammer, which went to number one in thirty-six countries and sold over a million copies.

He quickly demanded more money for his appearance in the film, and so the writers decided to remove his character. They clearly didn't try hard enough, because from an in-film perspective it still makes no sense.