Kelly's Heroes

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

Released: June 23, 1970

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DVD Released: 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 )
  • 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 )
  • 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.
  • June 6, 2009
    Most everything with Clint is good. This was one ofhis earlier ones. Great supporting cast. Two things didn't work for me: the music and Sutherland's character. Too much of the 60s/70's came through in the acting.

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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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