Kelly's Heroes
(1970)
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KELLY's HEROES combines comedy with wartime adventure as the laid-back members of an eccentric American army platoon plan an unusual expedition--to rob a bank located behind enemy lines. The ensemble cast includes Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Don Rickles, Telly Savalas, Carroll O'Connor, and Gavin MacLeod. |
Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas head the cast of this enjoyable, if occasionally slightly silly, adventure yarn about a group of maverick GIs who decide to fill a lull in the Second World War by knocking off a hoard of German bullion in occupied France. Savalas and the eccentric Donald Sutherland set to their assignment with gusto, while Eastwood remains as cool as ever as half of Europe is blowing up around him. This was never a film destined to win prestige prizes at foreign film festivals. Despite many flaws, though, it's not dull by any means.