Film: Kelly's Heroes

[Jackal]

Film: Kelly´s Heroes

I love this film.

I think I first watched it with my dad when I was around 8 and have seen it once or twice a year since then.

Saw it again today, thought there should be a thread here and there was not

What do you think?

During World War II, Kelly (Eastwood), a former lieutenant demoted to private as a scapegoat, captures a German colonel in Intelligence and gets him drunk to try to get information. Before he is killed by an assaulting German tank, the drunken prisoner of war blurts out an interesting tidbit: there is a cache of 14,000 gold bars stored in a bank vault 30 miles behind enemy lines.

Kelly recruits a group of soldiers on R&R to sneak off and steal it. They include a skeptical master sergeant, "Big Joe" (Savalas); a greedy and opportunistic supply sergeant, "Crapgame" (Rickles); a proto-hippie Sherman tank commander, "Oddball" (Sutherland); and a number of stereotypical G.I.s. The men are presented as competent, if weary veterans; their motivations are more cynical and self-serving than patriotic, especially since their commanding officer, Captain Maitland (Hal Buckley), cares more about turning this campaign into a personal shopping tour than for the actual welfare of his men, who always get all of the worst and none of the best of this war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellys_heroes

Hi, man.
Big Joe: What are you doing?
Oddball: I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know.
Big Joe: What's happening?
Oddball: Well, the tank's broke and they're trying to fix it.
Big Joe: Well, then, why the hell aren't you up there helping them?
Oddball: [chuckles] I only ride 'em, I don't know what makes 'em work.
Big Joe: Christ!
Oddball: Definitely an antisocial type. Woof, woof, woof! That's my other dog imitation.

 

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[Mazey]

Kelly's Heroes ( Some of the best clips )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh8llWBZ4TA&mode=related&search=

one of my favorites ...