This was a good WWII film. Had a great cast. Watching Eastwood's character Kelly was like Sgt.Rock comic character jumping onto the big screen. Telly Savalas was awesome in this as well. Had a good plot with the gold heist. Good action scenes and some humor as well.
Well, yeah, man, you see, like, all the tanks we come up against are bigger and better than ours, so all we can hope to do is, like, scare 'em away, y'know. This gun is an ordinary 76mm but we add this piece of pipe onto it, and the Krauts think, like, maybe it's a 90mm. We got our own ammunition, it's filled with paint. When we fire it, it makes pretty pictures, scares the hell outta people! And we have a loudspeaker, when we go into battle we play music, very loud. It kind of... calms us down.
An anomaly. A war flick that isn't really about war. WWII merely serves as the backdrop for a story about a bunch of greedy bastards. Pretty neat, I think. A great cast, which includes Don Sutherland as a proto-hippie. I generally do not give a 5-star rating to a film that portrays an historical event in a less-than-accurate light, but as I previously stated this really isn't a film ABOUT WWII and besides, with all the confusion involved with the Allied push towards the Rhine, the scenario in this film seems at least plausible. And even if it doesn't, who gives a damn?! It's a great movie!
A war/adventure film in the vain of The Dirty Dozen or The Gun's of Naverone except with more of a satirical edge. The film is about a division in WW2 trying to go behind enemy lines and steal Nazi gold. The key difference between this and the above film, is that the heroes of this film aren't patriots, they're in it for the money. I thought it succeeded on both its satirical level and as an adventure/heist flick. I could have done without a strange spaghetti western parody late in the film. Otherwise this was a very fun take on the war genre.
I adore older movies and have been watching them since I was small. There is something pure about them in the fact that you are not over ridden with sex, raunch and language you don't want small children to hear.
This movie was funny and showed what could be a lighter side to war time if there is such a thing.
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 him 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.
Clint Eastwood is a soldier in the American forces during WWII, upon learning about a secret deposit of Nazi gold, he assembles his own ragtag band of merry men on an expedition behind enemy lines to steal it. Donald Sutherland's character is hilario...(read more)us.
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/
oddball war movie...great soundtrack...a renegade unit attempts to rob a bank behind enemy lines..."here's my other dog impression...woof,woof" donald sutherland as oddball...
Watched this a few years ago and wasn?t impressed. Just watched it again and thought it was excellent. Plenty of action although the story is a bit different to the usual WWII movies.
A WWII film about an american soldier who learns that his german prisoner knows where $16Mill in German Nazi Money is,kelly and the other soldiers hatch a plan to steal the $16million amount of gold bars.
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 the 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?
A pure classic. Later ripped off by Three Kings in '99, this is the keeper. Stand-out performances all round but Donald Sutherland stands head and shoulders above the rest as an oddball called.... Oddball!
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