Corrected entry: As the convicts are building their training camp, Posy is shown with blueprints and a clipboard on which he is writing something. Later, when Posy comes out from talking with the psychologist, it is firmly established that Posy is illiterate: "The captain thinks he can teach me letters." How can he be reading blueprints and lists?
Grumpy Scot
11th Dec 2007
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Correction: Being illiterate wouldn't keep you from reading a diagram or drawing like blueprints. Posy could have been putting markings on the blueprints, not actually writing words.
Correction: That's not the point. Posey is functionally illiterate. There is no way he would be trusted with an important task like keeping track of designs and the progress of his team through written lists, which would inevitably demand skills he simply did not possess.