Kelly's Heroes
Kelly's Heroes is a 1970 war comedy drama film directed by Brian G. Hutton. Set during World War II, the film tells the story of a motley crew of American GIs who go AWOL to rob a French bank, located behind German lines, of its stored Nazi gold bars.
Plot
In 1944 France, during World War II, United States Army Private Kelly—a former lieutenant scapegoated for a failed infantry assault—captures Colonel Dankhopf of Wehrmacht Intelligence. Kelly realizes that Dankhopf is carrying several gold bars and after getting him drunk, learns that they are from a cache of 14,000 gold bars worth $16 million, stored in a bank behind German lines in the French town of Clermont. Dankhopf is then killed when the Germans overrun the American line.
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| author | Troy Kennedy Martin |
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| contentLocation | France |
| director | Brian G. Hutton |
| editor | John Jympson |
| events | World War II |
| genre | comedy crime drama western |
| keywords | abwehr ambush bailey bridge bridge charles de gaulle clermont clermont-en-argonne destroyed by allied fighter-bombers engineer force friendly fire german forces gold bar half-track intelligence kill leave m4 sherman minefield scheme their way tiger i trap unattached united states army wehrmacht |
| musicBy | Lalo Schifrin |
| producer | Gabriel Katzka Sidney Beckerman |
| productionCompany | Avala Film |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | heist satirical war |