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Kelly's Heroes [Region 2] | ![Kelly's Heroes [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T7BR6EM0L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Brian G. Hutton
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'connor, Donald Sutherland
Category: DVD
Buy New: $34.22
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Rating:  144 reviews
Sales Rank: 150949
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 144 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321900651561
ASIN: B0000649K8
Theatrical Release Date: June 23, 1970
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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This tongue-in-cheek 1970 variation on The Dirty Dozen looks less fresh than it did in the year of its release, but it still has some enjoyable moments. Clint Eastwood stars along with Donald Sutherland, Harry Dean Stanton, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, and Gavin MacLeod in the story of American soldiers who try to steal gold behind enemy lines in World War II. Sutherland's hippie G.I. doesn't have the sardonic and timely appeal he did during the Vietnam War, but the film's irreverence and several of the performances are worth a visit. --Tom Keogh
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| Customer Reviews: Read 139 more reviews...
 A fantastic laugh, a classic, definitely good for the soul.. June 2, 2009
B. Vos (Auckland, New Zealand)
This is probably my very favorite film of all times..
I remember this one when I was 16 years old or so, my parents just purchased a video recorder (VCR as it is called in the US), which was at the time a luxury thing in your house - this is the mid-80's.. This is one of the first films we recorded, that we kept on showing to people visiting us: look at this awesome film, this is what you can do with a video..
I saw this film dozens of times, and I can dream the dialogues, the swearing of Big Joe (Telly Savallas), the determined Kelly (Clint Eastwood) who is set to go for the gold, the nutty Oddball - played brilliantly by Donald Sutherland (Jack Bauer's - from 24 hours - dad), the greedy Crapgame (Don Rickles).
It's a story about heroes who go for their own sake regardless, of the 'rules of war', which I can imagine can become pointless anyway when you are out there naked at the front. This is WW-II, obviously for good reasons we were fighting, but I think can so much relate to the pointlessness you feel when you're out there. Then suddenly Kelly bumps into this enemy officer, he decided to get him drunk and hear him out that there is a bank full of gold 14000 bars of them, behind enemy lines, in a French village called Clermont.. Let's just go for gold, "On a private little enterprise". They don't go without loss, some guys from the gang don't make it, which makes it incredibly realistic.. In the end, they make a 'Deal-deal' with the enemy officer in the village after heavy fighting, have him take his share and leave the bank with a note 'Up yours'. They eventually leave with the general following their path received as the hero, who came to set the village free from the enemy. They don't even realise who actually brake through.. They were Kelly's Hero's.
An asset with big names Telly 'Kojak' Savallas, Clint 'The Good' Eastwood, Donald 'WrrrafWaf' Sutherland.
Classic..
A family favorite!! May 15, 2009
D. S. Cayton (Kentucky)
This is one of my husband's favorite movies. In fact, the theme song "Burning Bridges" is the song he wants to have played at his funeral. A great movie even for people who don't normally like war movies (like me.)
 Kelly's Heroes February 7, 2009
Knud Veitland (Denmark)
The product cannot be played on my DVD-player because of "area-limitations".
Subtitles only from England and France - I'm living in Denmark as a danish citizen and my language is danish.
It was a wrong product in this case.
Knud Veitland
Overlooked WWII cult classic December 17, 2008
puddle pirate
This is one of my favorite WWII movies of all time. Normally, I really don't like to watch movies more than once or twice, but this one I can watch over and over again. I read a critic review of this movie several years back and he said it was just a poor rehash of "The Dirty Dozen". Nothing could be further from the truth.
This is what you would consider a "Black Comedy". It has both sublime and hilarious comedic performances interwoven with pathos, suspense and hard-hitting WWII action. It has a great ensemble cast featuring Donald Sutherland (Oddball), Clint Eastwood (Kelly), Telly Savalas (Big Joe), Don Rickles (Crapgame), Carroll O'Conner (General Colt) and Gavin McLeod (Moriarity) among others like Harry Dean Stanton (Willard) and Jeff Morris (Cowboy).
Kelly stumbles upon a German officer not too long after D-Day with top secret information about a Nazi held bank with 16 million dollars worth of gold. The only problem is, it's 30 miles behind enemy lines! He assembles a renegade outfit to go get it, recruiting a crazy cast of characters along the way. Donald Sutherland gives one of his great performances as Oddball, the burnout tank commander to provide the heavy firepower. He's the world's first hippie who encourages everyone they can accomplish anything they want as long as they think "positive thoughts". Crapgame is the Brooklyn born hustler that can wrangle all the supplies as long as he gets his cut. Big Joe is the barely willing hard bitten Sergeant who provides his men and keeps things down to earth. Kelly is the no-nonsense disaffected lieutenant that orchestrates the whole plan and keeps them on track.
Carroll O'Conner gives a great over the top performance as General Colt who is frustrated at the lack of progress on the front line. When he hears over the radio the breakthrough the heroes are making, he thinks they are the real deal and wants to go give them all a medal!
I think this was one of the best ensemble casting jobs I have seen. Every major character is fully realized and interacts with each other perfectly. The writing was excellent and the pacing is great. The plot is fairly straightforward but involving. Plus it has a very good ending. The music gives you a seventies feel but feels oddly appropriate. If you want some memorable one-liners, this movie is chock full of them. Asked why Oddball isn't helping his men fix the tank, "Hey man, I just drive em, I don't what makes em work!".
Along the way, you have short but memorable appearances such as Mulligan, the artillery officer who can't shoot straight. I love Don Rickles in this movie, the role seems tailor made for him. I love the scene where he is talking to Big Joe's sidekick soldier Babra (who Joe keeps calling Barbara) about writing home to his mother. It has some of the worst moments of war as well. The hell of caring for a buddy who is there one moment and lost forever the next. If you to want have the guys (and maybe gals) over for a "guys night at the movies", this is the one for you.
 An Awful Eastwood Bomb! December 5, 2008
Mike Crestwood (New York)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Stay away from this awful movie. although Eastwood's done a lot of great work in his 40 + years of filmaking, this is one movie to pass up. Donald Sutherland's hippie character is a complete waste, while Carroll O'Conner's character is simply a caricature of an inept army general. Eastwood does his wooden impression of a concerned soldier. Sadly, Savals and Rickles are the best actors in the whole movie. Poor attention to detail throughout: no one gets dirty or has a five o'clock shadow, despite marching through the French countryside for days. Also, after being strafed by an American plane, the soldiers call it the "air force" (which didn't exist until after the war) instread of "air corps." No battle tactics displayed by the German soldiers who die by the score. Not one of them takes any cover or concealment. And were the Germans so deaf, dumb, and blind as to not see the Americans creeping up on them or their tank rumbling through town? The final showdown between the German tank driver and the Americans (Eastwood, Savalas, Sutherland) is a poor joke, modeled on the man-with-no-name shootout scenes. They'd been trying to kill each other for an hour and suddenly they and the German hatch a plot together to blow open the bank's doors. Not even funny or in the least bit interesting. JUST AWFUL! Stay away from it
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