Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) Body Count Breakdown by Kooshmeister
[CHARACTER KILLS]
Major Wright (Telly Savalas): 10
Ernesto Ferruci (Paul Picerni): 8
Joe Stern (Gary Graham): 3
Maurice Fontenac (Bo Svenson): 3
David Webber (James Van Patten): 3
Eric “Swede” Wallan (Randall “Tex” Cobb): 2
Sgt. Holt (Vince Edwards): 2
Ronnie Webber (Vincent Van Patten): 1
Lieutenant Karl Hoffler (Ivo Kristof): 1
[CORPSE BREAKDOWN]
Northern Italy: 14
-4 German soldiers killed with a grenade flung by an Italian resistance member
-5 German soldiers shot by Italian resistance
-1 German officer shot by Italian resistance
-1 German officer shot by Wright
-Wright’s partner killed by a German soldier
-Wright shoots the soldier in revenge
-Wright shoots a German officer hiding in the closet
Live Ammunition Training: 1
-Hallet is accidentally shot with a machine gun manned by Holt
Ambush in the Woods: 2
-German soldiers shoot Paul Verlaine
-German soldiers shoot the British agent
Attacking the Patrol Boat: 12
-Stern shoots 1 German sailor
-Fontenac shoots 1 German sailor
-David shoots 1 sailor
-Wallan breaks a radio operator’s neck
-Ronnie shoots 1 sailor
-David shoots another sailor
-Hoffler shoots Sturdivant
-Stern shoots 2 more sailors
-Holt shoots 1 sailor
-Ferucci shoots 1 sailor
-David shoots Hoffler
Retaliation: 6
-The Germans hang 6 French resistance members
St. Francis Abbey: 29
-Wright shoots the SS sergeant
-4 German soldiers shot by unidentified Americans
-1 unidentified American shot by German machine-gunners
-Wright shoots 1 German soldier
-Ferucci shoots 2 German soldiers
-Wright shoots a radio operator
-Fontenac shoots 1 German soldier
-3 more Germans shot by unidentified Americans
-2 Germans killed by an exploding truck
-Ferucci blows up a guard tower with a grenade, killing 2 Germans
-Ferucci shoots 2 German soldiers
-Wright shoots 1 German soldier
-2 German soldiers shot by unidentified Americans
-1 unidentified American shot by German machine-gunners
-Wright blows up 2 German machine-gunners with a grenade
-Wright shoots 1 German officer
-Wallan shoots 1 German soldier
-Ferucci shoots 1 German soldier
Running the Blockade: 6
-David’s partner shoots 2 German soldiers
-The Germans shoot the partner
-David crashes his truck into another vehicle and dies in an explosion
-Ronnie’s partner is shot by the Germans
-Ronnie is shot by German gunfire through his windshield and crashes the truck
Escaping: 2
-Fontenac kills 1 German with a machine gun
-The Germans shoot Fontenac
[THE UNCONFIRMED AND UNCOUNTED]
-General Worden also shows Wright a film stolen from Nazi scientists in which a woman is exposed to an experimental nerve gas and killed but I hesitated to include this in the body count as it wasn’t happening in realtime.
-Karl, Krieger’s aide, says they hang six French resistance members, however we see only four hanged onscreen. I counted all six anyway.
-Although I initially included Pierre Claudel in my video breakdown of all the deaths in this film, when Dr. Flamands grabs him and drags him offscreen, I decided it’s impossible to tell whether Flamands killed him or not. He could’ve simply been knocked out, especially as Flamands, a civilian scientist, probably wouldn’t know how to (or be willing to) kill someone.