Kelly's Heroes [VHS]

Kelly's Heroes [VHS]
by Brian G. Hutton

Kelly's Heroes [VHS]

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Actor: Carroll O'Connor, Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Cinematographer: Gabriel Figueroa
Editor: John Jympson
Producer: Gabriel Katzka
Producer: Harold Loeb
Producer: Irving L. Leonard
Producer: Sidney Beckerman
Writer: Troy Kennedy-Martin
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; French (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 144 minutes
Release Date: 2000-08-01
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Kelly's Heroes [VHS]

Movie Review: Got to love it
Summary: 4 Stars

If you like war movies with a twist, this is as great as it gets!

Movie Review: Great plot wrong settings
Summary: 4 Stars

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.

Movie Review: The 60's Come to WW II
Summary: 5 Stars

While containing sobering reminders of the costs of war, overall this movie embraces the wistful hopefulness and free-love joy of the time in which it was made. Kelly's Heroes is a war movie of which the most important messages are that anything is possible with enough buddies and friends and, in war, all you really have is those men and those loyalties. Clint Eastwood, in one of his laconic, post-Spaghetti Western best, is the lead actor here, with capable support coming in the form of well-acted character turns from Telly Savalas (Kojak), comedian Don Rickles, and Carroll O'Connor (All In the Family). But the star of this movie, in my humble opinion, is Donald Sutherland, as a tank commander and overall free-spirited adventurer, who steals the movie with irreverence and comedy timing. The plot of the movie is fun and rebellious, a story of an over-used, under-appreciated group of soldiers with a fortune-making opportunity they just can't pass up. All they have to do is accomplish it all behind German lines without anyone knowing it! And while the action comes fast and furious, the cinematography is effective at both pleasing the eye and adding to the scope of the movie. In conclusion, if you're someone looking for a different take on either the typical WW II or heist picture, pick this one up. If over-the-top comedy and firefights are your game, place an order for this movie. Or if you just want to put your cares and worries on hold for two hours, let Amazon send you this movie.

Movie Review: Good Movie
Summary: 4 Stars

This movie is a decent twist on "The Dirty Dozen." Although I like the dozen better.

Movie Review: A fantastic laugh, a classic, definitely good for the soul..
Summary: 5 Stars

This is probably my very favorite film of all times..

I remember this one when I was 16 years old or so, my parents just purchased a video recorder (VCR as it is called in the US), which was at the time a luxury thing in your house - this is the mid-80's.. This is one of the first films we recorded, that we kept on showing to people visiting us: look at this awesome film, this is what you can do with a video..

I saw this film dozens of times, and I can dream the dialogues, the swearing of Big Joe (Telly Savallas), the determined Kelly (Clint Eastwood) who is set to go for the gold, the nutty Oddball - played brilliantly by Donald Sutherland (Jack Bauer's - from 24 hours - dad), the greedy Crapgame (Don Rickles).

It's a story about heroes who go for their own sake regardless, of the 'rules of war', which I can imagine can become pointless anyway when you are out there naked at the front. This is WW-II, obviously for good reasons we were fighting, but I think can so much relate to the pointlessness you feel when you're out there. Then suddenly Kelly bumps into this enemy officer, he decided to get him drunk and hear him out that there is a bank full of gold 14000 bars of them, behind enemy lines, in a French village called Clermont.. Let's just go for gold, "On a private little enterprise". They don't go without loss, some guys from the gang don't make it, which makes it incredibly realistic.. In the end, they make a 'Deal-deal' with the enemy officer in the village after heavy fighting, have him take his share and leave the bank with a note 'Up yours'. They eventually leave with the general following their path received as the hero, who came to set the village free from the enemy. They don't even realise who actually brake through.. They were Kelly's Hero's.

An asset with big names Telly 'Kojak' Savallas, Clint 'The Good' Eastwood, Donald 'WrrrafWaf' Sutherland.
Classic..

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Summary of Kelly's Heroes [VHS]

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

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