Kelly's Heroes

Kelly's Heroes
by Brian G. Hutton

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Actor: Carroll O'Connor, Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Brand: EASTWOOD,CLINT
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 143 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-08-01
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Movie Review: Vietnam Redux-But Without Bitterness
Summary: 3 Stars

In KELLY'S HEROES, director Brian Hutton succeeds in reviving an earlier DIRTY DOZEN, and combines it with a Vietnam War style flair of left-wing anti-militarism that nevertheless carries the audience from start to finish. Clint Eastwood is cast in a role well-suited to his earlier penchant for playing the bounty hunter. Here he has learned of the existence of sixteen million dollars of gold in a German occupied French bank. He allies himself with a motley horde of names well-known to credit readers of the late 1960s: Telly Savalas as the loudmouthed sergeant, Carrol O'Oconnor as the equally loudmouthed cartoonish general, Donald Southerland as the hippiesh bearded tank commander, and Gavin MacLeod as the fumbling mechanic.

Much of the film is an uneasy mixture of a standard shoot-em-up war film of tanks, screaming strafing aircraft, and bloody ambushes with a comedic subtext of mercenary soldiers who view the war as a source of profit. Casualties on both sides are vastly different. Germans get blown away by the hundreds yet only two GIs die. This differential in mortality is needed to keep the film on track as a sometimes funny anti-war film that undoubtedly seemed hilarious in a Vietnam obsessed America of 1970 and only somewhat less humorous in an equally Iraq obsessed America of 2008. One does not question the many logical gaps involved in Eastwood's leadership of his mercenaries without his superiors finding out. Indeed, with the buffoonish Carrol O'Connor as the commanding general, one simply accepts that foolishness rather than professionalism is the only requisite for command. Donald Southerland is truly amusing in the same way that he later showed in MASH, but my thinking is that the real impact of KELLY'S HEROES lies not in amusing an audience with the antics of money grubbing soldiers but rather in convincing an already anti-war America that all wars in all times are no different from the one that Eastwood, Savalas, and their cohorts found so immensely profitable.

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Summary of Kelly's Heroes

A group of soldiers set out to rob a bank and almost win World War II.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG
Release Date: 8-FEB-2005
Media Type: DVD

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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