Kelly's Heroes

Name: Kelly's Heroes
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Released: June 23, 1970
Duration: 144 min
Rating: 50
Cast: Carroll O'Connor, Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, Gavin MacLeod

1970

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: June 23, 1970 | GP

Starring: Carroll O'Connor, Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, Gavin MacLeod, Hal Buckley, Jeff Morris, Richard Davalos, Stuart Margolin, Telly Savalas

Summary: A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.

Director: Brian G. Hutton

Genre(s): Adventure, Comedy, War

Rating: GP

Runtime: 144 min

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Empire David Parkinson

It’s instilled with the bite and bark of Bilko’s capitalist fervour, and has a fun line in cool, snappy dialogue, although never intending to be quite so broadly a comedy. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Nearly satirical in its overall effect, plot caroms between cliche dogface antics, detailed and gratuitous violence, caper melodramatics, and outrageous anachronism. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This humorous, lively, and entertaining picture could be described as a caper film set against a WW II backdrop. Read full review

Roger Greenspun

Not without its problems. But it is very largely without viable solutions to them. Not without resources—it is full of resources, natural and mostly untapped—but with out that resourcefulness necessary to persuade us that comedy, any comedy, is worth the time of day. Read full review

Dave Kehr

An attempt to blend the war epic and the caper film that doesn't quite come off. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Interesting only in so far as it reveals Eastwood's nonchalant attitude to the blockbuster. Unlike Sutherland, who tries desperately to act his way out of Troy Kennedy Martin's laboured script, Eastwood just strolls through the film, along the way creating its few cinematic moments. Read full review

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BiggieCheese63

Sep 30, 2020

This is one of my favorite movies. I’m not much of a fun of old movies, but when I first heard of the premise, I knew I had to watch it. Oddball made every scene he was in great, and Clint Eastwood was a cowboy. The only real problem I have with the movie is the amount of characters. Off theThis is one of my favorite movies. I’m not much of a fun of old movies, but when I first heard of the premise, I knew I had to watch it. Oddball made every scene he was in great, and Clint Eastwood was a cowboy. The only real problem I have with the movie is the amount of characters. Off the top of my head, I can think of Clint, about 20 guys in his squad, Oddball’s tank crew, the general and his assistant, and the quartermaster. It’s too many! But other than that, perfect. I pray nightly that some big studio will remake this.… Expand

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