Starring: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland Directed By: Brian G. Hutton Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 01, 2000 Running Time: 144 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 23, 1970
Amazon.com: This tongue-in-cheek 1970 variation on The Dirty Dozen looks less fresh than it did in the year of its release, but it still has some enjoyable moments. Clint Eastwood stars along with Donald Sutherland, Harry Dean Stanton, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, and Gavin MacLeod in the story of American soldiers who try to steal gold behind enemy lines in World War II. Sutherland's hippie G.I. doesn't have the sardonic and timely appeal he did during the Vietnam War, but the film's irreverence and several of the performances are worth a visit. --Tom Keogh
KELLY'S HEROES on Blu-ray ^ Warner Bros. will celebrate Clint Eastwood's 80th birthday on May 31 by releasing a Blu-ray double feature of KELLY'S HEROES and WHERE EAGLES DARE on June 1. Both Eastwood World War II movies were directed by Brian Hutton.
This is a great movie. The story and the characters are very entertaining, even if the movie is 40 years old.
And it has something for everyone. Young Clint Eastwood, to look at. Telly Savalas as the growling Sargent, Donald Sutherland, the free spirited kook and Don Rickles to work all the angles.
Lots of laughs.
Classic ^ If you like war movies this a good one with alot of great actors and some maybe less known, who all play intersting characters with quick answers and nonstop comical witt. The price was decent so i got two copies and they arrived in good shape and play well.
Got to love it ^ If you like war movies with a twist, this is as great as it gets!
Great plot wrong settings ^ First off I'm no movie critic. I like most kids in the 60s and 70s grew up on War movies. As an adult now I bought this on DVD for my War Movie collection. I won't get into the plot as it is mentioned in the above reviews. I won't get into the technical aspects of this movie either. There are a million WWII "experts" out there. They can point out all the flaws in this movie (me inclusive). That said I watched this movie for the story. The acting is good as Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Don Sutherland and Clint Eastwood are cast. There are many more fine actors who later did TV series. Two things did bother me through the whole movie: Location and the Era. The location was supposed to be Southern France (Nancy). The location seemed more like the Italian Campaign (filmed in Yugoslavia) than France. The extras looked more like Pisanos than "Frogs". There was a certain Mediterranean feel to it almost Spaghetti Western. Maybe Southern France is like that but I did not feel it. The second thing that bothered me was the Era. This would have worked GREAT in a Viet-Nam type setting. This was filmed during that war and the mannerism were there. Also present was the "Pys-Op" speaker on Odd Balls Tank the longer hair. All in all a fun movie to watch and a great "quote movie" thanks to Sutherland.
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