Kelly's Heroes
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| Directed by | Brian G. Hutton |
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Gabriel Katzka Harold Loeb Sidney Beckerman |
| Written by | Troy Kennedy Martin |
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Clint Eastwood Telly Savalas Don Rickles Carroll O'Connor Donald Sutherland |
| Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
| Edited by | John Jympson |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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146 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4 million |
| Box office | $5,200,000 (rentals) |
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| Soundtrack album by Lalo Schifrin | ||||
| Released | 1970 | |||
| Recorded | April 21 and June, 1970 TTG Studios Hollywood, California |
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| Genre | Film score | |||
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MGM ISE-23ST |
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| Producer | Mike Curb and Jesse Kaye | |||
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Kelly's Heroes is a 1970 war comedy 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 Croat village of Vižinada on the Istria peninsula.
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.
Private Kelly (Eastwood), a former lieutenant scapegoated for a failed infantry assault, captures Colonel Dankhopf of Wehrmacht Intelligence. Interrogating his prisoner, Kelly notices the officer's briefcase has several gold bars disguised under lead plating. Curious, he gets the colonel drunk and learns that there is a cache of 14,000 gold bars, worth $16,000,000, stored in a bank vault 30 miles behind enemy lines in the town of Clermont. When their position is overrun and the Americans pull back, a Tiger tank kills Dankhopf.
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