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Overview

User Rating:
7.5/10   12,996 votes
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Director:
Brian G. Hutton
Writer:
Troy Kennedy-Martin (written by)
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Release Date:
23 June 1970 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Comedy | War more
Tagline:
Never have so few taken so many for so much. more
Plot:
A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
A two for one movie more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Clint Eastwood ... Pvt. Kelly

Telly Savalas ... MSgt. Big Joe

Don Rickles ... SSgt. Crapgame

Carroll O'Connor ... Maj. Gen. Colt

Donald Sutherland ... Sgt. Oddball (tank commander)

Gavin MacLeod ... Moriarty (tank crewman)
Hal Buckley ... Capt. Maitland
Stuart Margolin ... Pvt. Little Joe
Jeff Morris ... Pvt. Cowboy
Richard Davalos ... Pvt. Gutowski
Perry Lopez ... Pvt. Petuko
Tom Troupe ... Cpl. Job

Harry Dean Stanton ... Pvt. Willard (as Dean Stanton)
Dick Balduzzi ... Pvt. Fisher
Gene Collins ... Pvt. Babra
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ratnici (Yugoslavia: Serbian title)
The Warriors (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
144 min
Country:
Yugoslavia | USA
Language:
English | French | German
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Stereo (35 mm prints)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) | Iceland:16 | UK:A (original rating) | Spain:13 | Argentina:Atp | Peru:PT | New Zealand:PG | Australia:M (original rating) | Australia:PG (alternate rating) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (1970) | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:GP (original rating) | USA:PG | West Germany:16
Filming Locations:
Yugoslavia
Company:
Avala Film more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Kelly, Big Joe and the other recon soldiers wear the shoulder patch of the 35th Infantry Division, which was fighting in the area of Nancy, France, in late summer 1944. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Oddball's Sherman is in the alley behind the second Tiger tank, Kelly fires the Sherman's machine gun at the Tiger to keep the crew inside. The amount of ammunition in the feeder box of the machine gun increases/decreases between shots. more
Quotes:
Big Joe: [a mortar round lands close, covering everyone in dust]
[muttering]
Big Joe: Mulligan, you son of a bitch...
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Movie Connections:
Featured in The 100 Greatest War Films (2005) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Si tu me dis more

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14 out of 20 people found the following comment useful:-
A two for one movie, 26 February 1999
Author: Tom Schmid (toms@uxdev1.atl.hp.com) from Atlanta, GA

Kelly's Heros brilliantly mixes your average war movie with a bank robbery movie to come up with a plot that's entirely unique.

Equipped with an all-star cast, Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas play the straight guys to the comic antics of Donald Sutherland and Don Rickles. The movie makes no moral judgements about bad guys and good guys and simply shows the characters of both sides a path to redemption in the midst of war. In addition, the theme song, "Burning Bridges" is rendered with a youthful tone by the Mike Curb Congregation, which reminds us that in reality, people not much removed from childhood are the ones sent into battle.

We cheer when they get their just rewards.

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