Carroll O'Connor, Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles

During World War II a German Colonel is captured by the Americans but before he can be interrogated an artillery barrage hits the camp. However, Ex-Lieutenant Kelly manages to reach the Colonel, get h...( read more  read more... )im drunk and learn that he is on a secret mission to ship $16,000,000 of gold to a base in France. Kelly is determined to get the gold and plans for himself and a few of his fellow soldiers to slip into enemy territory and steal the bullion.

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PG, 2 hrs. 24 min.

Directed by: Brian G. Hutton

Release Date: June 23, 1970

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DVD Release Date: August 1, 2000

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  • October 15, 2008
    Set after the D-Day landing in wartime France Kelly's Heroes is about a rag tag group that stumble's on the location of $16 million in gold. The problem is that it's in a bank that's located 30 miles behind enemy lines. Clint Eastwood stars as Kelly, probably the most normal of t...( read more)he group that features Telly Savalas as the tough sergeant, Donald Sutherland as the hippie tank commander, and Don Rickles as the supply clerk that helps outfit the trip.

    Kelly's Heroes isn't a bad war movie/buddy picture/comedy. It just suffers from some peculiarities in its script and the way some things are presented. Such as a hippie in 1944 France. But probably the one thing that took a wrecking ball to this film was the use of a crap Ennio Morricone rip off score for a scene where Eastwood is walking down the street to face off with a tank. What is this garbage? Let's give everyone a reminder of a superior film that the star has been in over this overinflated studio jerk-off. This ruins the movie and turns what could have been a good picture into a hack job.
  • October 21, 2007
    War movies aren't usually my genre but this was kind of funny (yet serious at the same time). An absollutely all star cast with Telly Savalas, Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, Carroll O' Connor, and Donald Sutherland/
  • September 27, 2007
    Easy to see why this film is a classic. It's a great movie about Vietnam... er, the second World War... with the Donald Sutherland-portrayed hippie and all (though he is hilarious). This was the Top Gun of its generation, in a sense - a somewhat senseless war movie, but without t...( read more)he satire of M*A*S*H*, that is easy to watch and shows the camaraderie and homo-erotic soldier-told lighter side of the story. And it wouldn't be an Eastwood movie without some moral indecision, and here we have some typical good guys doing bad things that seem good... after all, what's in this war for them? (Minus a star for missing the point: stopping Hitler, Clint.) Eastwood, of course, is just an actor in this one though, that flaw can be blamed on the director. Eastwood does it better (see: Unforgiven, Mystic River). Still, a fun movie with excellent special effects for its day, and hey, all's well that ends well, right?
  • June 13, 2007
    A good war action movie with a strong cast, as they go after gold left by the Nazi's.
  • December 31, 2006
    Good Flick, better than average.
  • October 26, 2009
    if you like war flicks this is a good one.
  • October 5, 2009
    one of my main childhood fave war movies donald sutherland was funny in this film hope it comes on blu ray .
  • September 20, 2009
    A different and unusual war film, but it works decently.

    73/100
  • September 3, 2009
    If you like war movies, and if you like Clint Eastwood...this one is perfect! Neat story, a little irreverent (for it's time)...great acting. No characters better than "Oddball". Even the Love Boat captain was great in this!
  • September 1, 2009
    good war movie and very funny

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  • bpcowboy
    June 10, 2007
    I remember going to the drive-in,in san antonio texas,i was in third grade, at benjamin franklin elementary school,i was seven years old,in san antonio texas,my teachers,my principal,my school bus drivers,and my classmates,went to the drive-in to see kelly's heroes with me.we were all cowboys!Bobby Pounds
  • drdomino
    May 15, 2007
    Quit with the negative waves!

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