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Kelly's Heroes
starring: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland
directed by: Brian G. Hutton

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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790752389
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0790752387
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: August 01, 2000
Running Time: 145 minutes
Sales Rank: 21678
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 23, 1970

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Amazon.com:
This tongue-in-cheek 1970 variation on The Dirty Dozen looks less fresh than it did in the year of its release, but it still has some enjoyable moments. Clint Eastwood stars along with Donald Sutherland, Harry Dean Stanton, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, and Gavin MacLeod in the story of American soldiers who try to steal gold behind enemy lines in World War II. Sutherland's hippie G.I. doesn't have the sardonic and timely appeal he did during the Vietnam War, but the film's irreverence and several of the performances are worth a visit. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Overlooked WWII cult classic
This is one of my favorite WWII movies of all time. Normally, I really don't like to watch movies more than once or twice, but this one I can watch over and over again. I read a critic review of this movie several years back and he said it was just a poor rehash of "The Dirty Dozen". Nothing could be further from the truth.

This is what you would consider a "Black Comedy". It has both sublime and hilarious comedic performances interwoven with pathos, suspense and hard-hitting WWII action. It has a great ensemble cast featuring Donald Sutherland (Oddball), Clint Eastwood (Kelly), Telly Savalas (Big Joe), Don Rickles (Crapgame), Carroll O'Conner (General Colt) and Gavin McLeod (Moriarity) among others like Harry Dean Stanton (Willard) and Jeff Morris (Cowboy).

Kelly stumbles upon a German officer not too long after D-Day with top secret information about a Nazi held bank with 16 million ... Read More

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- An Awful Eastwood Bomb!
Stay away from this awful movie. although Eastwood's done a lot of great work in his 40 + years of filmaking, this is one movie to pass up. Donald Sutherland's hippie character is a complete waste, while Carroll O'Conner's character is simply a caricature of an inept army general. Eastwood does his wooden impression of a concerned soldier. Sadly, Savals and Rickles are the best actors in the whole movie. Poor attention to detail throughout: no one gets dirty or has a five o'clock shadow, despite marching through the French countryside for days. Also, after being strafed by an American plane, the soldiers call it the "air force" (which didn't exist until after the war) instread of "air corps." No battle tactics displayed by the German soldiers who die by the score. Not one of them takes any cover or concealment. And were the Germans so deaf, dumb, and blind as to not see the Americans creeping up on them or their ... Read More

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- One of my favs!
Received quickly and in very good condition. One of my most fav movies ever!

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- Vietnam Redux-But Without Bitterness
In KELLY'S HEROES, director Brian Hutton succeeds in reviving an earlier DIRTY DOZEN, and combines it with a Vietnam War style flair of left-wing anti-militarism that nevertheless carries the audience from start to finish. Clint Eastwood is cast in a role well-suited to his earlier penchant for playing the bounty hunter. Here he has learned of the existence of sixteen million dollars of gold in a German occupied French bank. He allies himself with a motley horde of names well-known to credit readers of the late 1960s: Telly Savalas as the loudmouthed sergeant, Carrol O'Oconnor as the equally loudmouthed cartoonish general, Donald Southerland as the hippiesh bearded tank commander, and Gavin MacLeod as the fumbling mechanic.

Much of the film is an uneasy mixture of a standard shoot-em-up war film of tanks, screaming strafing aircraft, and bloody ambushes with a comedic subtext of mercenary soldiers ... Read More

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