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Originally posted by: Bossk
Never seen that one either. What's it about?
Kelly's Heroes stars Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Don Rickles, and many other up-n-coming talents. Savalas plays Little Joe, the leader of a squad of G.I.s in France. Eastwood is as suave as ever as Kelly, one of the squad commanders. Eastwood's character hatches a plan to go behind enemy lines and rob a Nazi bank full of gold bars. Little Joe is against the idea, but after everyone else is convinced he goes along. Donald Sutherland plays Oddball, a tank commander who is hired by Kelly to use his 3 tanks, and crews, to breach enemy lines. Oddball is reminiscent of a late 60's hippy, and is the funniest character. On their way to the enemy bank Kelly and his guys get way over their heads when they discover that Oddball hired an entire marching band to reconstruct a downed bridge.
Joke: Oddball: (looking through binoculars at bridge) "Its still up!" *applause* (Allied plane comes by and blows bridge to smithereens) Oddball: "No it aint!"
While Kelly and company are fighting off enemies, the general (played by Carroll O'Connor) listens in to them on a radio from his French suite and thinks they're fighting for the allies LOL. Don Rickles plays Crapgame, a war-time oppurtunist who sells things to G.I.s. He comes along for the ride to get his share of the gold. At the bank the heroes are met with a few German tanks. In a funny scene Oddball, Kelly, and Joe all walk down the street side by side towards the last German tank with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly-like theme playing on the soundtrack. The German tank commander gets out and they compromise and blow up the bank gate with the tank.
Its a hilarious and very fun movie. Its one of those movies you never get tired of watching because its so damn fun and cool......like Big Trouble in Little China.
Kelly's Heroes