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Plot Summary
They were goldbricks until they found out about the gold bricks a fortune in Nazi-confiscated bullion! Clint Eastwood reups with the director of his Where Eagles Dare for the action-filled and tongue-in-cheek tale of GIs who decide to get something extra out of the war. Eastwood's title character masterminds a scheme to slip behind enemy lines and steal the loot. Co-stars include a trio on the verge of big-time TV success: Carroll O'Connor, Telly Savalas and Gavin MacLeod. Plus, Don Rickles plays the expectedly outspoken Crapgame. And in the same year as his starmaking M*A*S*H, Donald Sutherland is Oddball, World War II's only hippie. Dig it!
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
80%- Reviews Counted: 20
- Fresh: 16
- Rotten: 4
- Average Rating: 6.9/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Nearly satirical in its overall effect, plot caroms between cliche dogface antics, detailed and gratuitous violence, caper melodramatics, and outrageous anachronism.
Rotten: An attempt to blend the war epic and the caper film that doesn't quite come off.
Fresh: The action is flashy and intermittent, deliberately wallowing in a mire of revisionist grot, churned up vistas of European mud. Time has made it more intuitive and caustic a film, than its daft reputation might suggest.
Fresh: A terrific guys-on-a-mission movie.
Customer Reviews
Classic
A classic entertainment escape movie. Completely implausible, but wholly enjoyable. All the big name actors from the 60's and early 70's are here. This is the original "Three Kings."
irreverently hilarious
Take a WWII action film and blend it with a hilarious comedy and you get Kelly’s Heroes. A group of burned out GIs find out about millions in Nazi gold and decide to go behind enemy lines to “liberate” the gold. The antics of the crew, such as Oddball (played to perfection by Donald Sutherland), Crap game (Don Rickles), Big Joe (Telly Savalas), and Kelly (Clint Eastwood playing, sort of, the straight man trying to keep the plan together) are hilarious but the best comedy might have to be Carroll O’Conner who plays a general who thinks the crew are motivated by sheer patriotism and wants to pin a medal on the chest of every single man involved in getting his offensive back on track.
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- $14.99
- Genre: Action & Adventure
- Released: 1970
- © 1970 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved.