Kelly's Heroes
Kelly's Heroes is a 1970 World War II comedy drama heist film, directed by Brian G. Hutton, about a motley crew of American GIs who go AWOL in order to rob a French bank, located behind German lines, of its stored Nazi gold bars. The film stars Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas, and co-stars Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, and Donald Sutherland providing the comic absurdity, with secondary, comedic roles by Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin MacLeod, Karl-Otto Alberty, 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 is also hit by friendly fire from their own mortars.
Cast
More details
| author | Troy Kennedy Martin |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | France |
| director | Brian G. Hutton |
| editor | John Jympson |
| events | World War II |
| genre | comedy drama western |
| keywords | 1st ss panzer division 1st ss panzer division leibstandarte ss adolf hitler 35th infantry division abwehr american soldiers bailey bridge bank vault bridge charles de gaulle commanding officer engineer force friendly fire german soldier gold bar half-track intelligence kill lose m4 sherman outnumber river steal their way think tiger i trap wehrmacht |
| musicBy | Lalo Schifrin |
| producer | Gabriel Katzka Sidney Beckerman |
| productionCompany | Avala Film |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | heist satirical war |