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Kelly's Heroes (1970)

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User Rating: 7.5/10 (10,817 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Brian G. Hutton
Writer:
Troy Kennedy-Martin (written by)
Release Date:
23 June 1970 (USA) more
Genre:
War | Action | Comedy more
Tagline:
Never have so few taken so many for so much. more
Plot:
A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A war movie buff's guilty pleasure. more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ratnici (Yugoslavia: Serbian title)
The Warriors (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
144 min
Country:
Yugoslavia | USA
Language:
English | French | German
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Stereo
Certification:
Spain:13 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:A (original rating) | Iceland:16 | Australia:M (original rating) | Australia:PG (alternate rating) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (1970) | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:GP (original rating) | USA:PG | West Germany:16
Filming Locations:
Yugoslavia
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Company:
Avala Film more

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Trivia:
Director Brian G. Hutton was forced to make a number of cuts to suit the then MGM boss James T. Aubrey. more
Goofs:
Continuity: While Kelly is driving around in the jeep, the ammunition belt hanging from the Browning .30 changes length from shot to shot. more
Quotes:
Big Joe: According to this map, we got a river to cross before we get into this town of yours.
Kelly: Yeah, well there's a bridge right here, six miles out.
Big Joe: There was a bridge. The Air Corps knocked every bridge out of that river months ago.
Kelly: A-ah. Intelligence reports that the Air Corps knocking'em out by day and the Germans rebuilding'em by night. Now all we have to do is get there tomorrow morning at dawn, and we got ourselves a bridge.
Big Joe: Oh, how about the German Army? Do you think they'd mind us crossing their bridge, eh Kelly?
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007) more
Soundtrack:
All For The Love Of Sunshine more

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25 out of 33 people found the following comment useful:-
A war movie buff's guilty pleasure., 9 August 2004
Author: k_rkeplar from Mississippi River Bottoms Southern Illinois

I'm the first one to rant at ridiculous war movies. The history has to be right, the uniforms, and so on and so on. Plots have to be creditable or I'm the first one to cry foul. But then there comes along movies like Kelly's Heroes. It's violent and meaningless really...but funny and very exciting. The gear is accurate for the most part, which is far more than I can say about the bulk of so called serious war films. Even with the infamous Tiger tank the film makers attempted to at least make the Russian built Yugoslav T53s they were using look like Tigers. I think they were T53s, they did such a good job of making them look like Tigers it's hard to tell. The whole film is a 1960s anti-establishment slant thrown on a pretty standard WWII story about GIs on a mission behind the German lines. In this parallel universe John Wayne type mission, these guys are out for number one. It's their mission, not the US Army's or the Allies. With a headlines crazy General chasing behind them with his photographer looking to pin medals on "his boys" for piercing the German lines and apparently leading his "charge", they're heading for a town full of Germans guarding a bank with three Tiger tanks. Clint Eastwood has to pick up the means to complete this personal mission along the way without the secret leaking out. We even have 1960s Hippies in this silly war torn 1940s world. Donald Sutherland is a riot as a stoned Sherman tank commander who seems to have stepped into a timewarp and emerged in 1944 and found himself at the helm of an armored unit. Several then unknowns are in the film, including Harry Dean Stanton and Gavin Mcleod. Beautiful scenery and photography shot in what was then Yugoslavia. Excellent attention to equipment detail. Good, if over the top, performances all around. Suspense and excitement. Very funny. And possibly the silliest pothole laden plot to ever pass itself off as a war movie. If you're a war movie buff with a sense of humor you'll love it.

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