Kelly's Heroes
Kelly's Heroes is a 1970 American war film, directed by Brian G. Hutton, about a group of World War II American soldiers who go AWOL to rob a bank behind enemy lines. The film stars Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, and Donald Sutherland, with secondary roles played by Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin MacLeod, and Stuart Margolin. The screenplay was written by British film and television writer Troy Kennedy Martin. The film was a US-Yugoslav co-production, filmed mainly in the Croatian village of Vižinada on the Istria peninsula.
Plot
During a thunderstorm in early September 1944, units of the 35th Infantry Division are nearing the French town of Nancy. One of the division's mechanized reconnaissance platoons is ordered to hold their position when the Germans counterattack. The outnumbered platoon also receives friendly fire from their own mortars.
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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 | action adventure comedy-drama western |
| keywords | 1st ss panzer division 1st ss panzer division leibstandarte ss adolf hitler 35th infantry division abwehr bailey bridge bank vault behind enemy lines bridge charles de gaulle commanding officer force friendly fire gold bar hal buckley intelligence kill lose m4 sherman outnumber river their way think tiger tiger i wehrmacht |
| musicBy | Lalo Schifrin |
| producer | Gabriel Katzka Sidney Beckerman |
| productionCompany | Avala Film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | action comedy heist satirical war |