Synopsis
They set out to rob a bank... and damn near won a war instead!
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Kelly's Heroes
Cast
Clint Eastwood Telly Savalas Don Rickles Carroll O'Connor Donald Sutherland Gavin MacLeod Hal Buckley Stuart Margolin Jeff Morris Richard Davalos Perry Lopez Tom Troupe Harry Dean Stanton Dick Balduzzi Gene Collins Len Lesser David Hurst Fred Pearlman Michael Clark George Fargo Dee Pollock George Savalas John G. Heller Shepherd Sanders Karl-Otto Alberty Ross Elliott Hugo de Vernier Phil Adams Frank J. Garlotta Show All…
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Alternative Titles
The Warriors, Kellys Heroes, Kelly hősei, I guerrieri, Os Guerreiros Pilantras, Kellys hjältar, Złoto dla zuchwałych, Stosstrupp Gold, Келијеви хероји, Goud voor de Dapperen, 凯利的英雄们, Kelly's Hereos, Los violentos de Kelly, Kellys helter, Stoßtrupp Gold, Heróis Por Conta Própria, De l'or pour les braves, Çılgın Savaşcılar, Kellyho hrdinové, Kellys helte, Złoto dla Zuchwałych, Ήρωες με Βρώμικα Χέρια, Kellyn sankarit, נועזים בעורף האויב, 戦略大作戦, Героите на Кели, 战略大作战, Герои Келли, 戰略大作戰, El botín de los valientes, 켈리의 영웅들, قهرمانان کلی, Els herois de Kelly, Zlato za odvažne, Герої Келлі
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Theatrical
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UKPG
23 Jun 1970
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USAPG
24 Jun 1970
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Canada
31 Jul 1970
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South Korea15
27 Aug 1970
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Argentina
03 Sep 1970
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South Africa
10 Sep 1970
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AustraliaM
18 Sep 1970
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Finland
09 Oct 1970
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IrelandPG
27 Nov 1970
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Germany16
02 Dec 1970
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Sweden15
10 Dec 1970
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Greece13
18 Dec 1970
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Denmark
26 Dec 1970
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Japan
12 Feb 1971
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PortugalM/12
26 Feb 1971
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FranceU
23 Apr 1971
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Spain
03 Jun 1971
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Norway
06 Nov 1972
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Turkey
01 Feb 1975
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Poland12
30 Jun 1981
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Portugal
16 Apr 1982
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Spain
24 May 1984
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Hungary16
Physical
01 Aug 2000
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USAPG
14 Jan 2002
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Russian Federation
17 Apr 2002
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Netherlands12
07 Jun 2010
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Netherlands12
TV
23 Mar 2002
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Netherlands12
Releases by Country
Argentina
27 Aug 1970
- Theatrical
Australia
10 Sep 1970
- TheatricalM
Canada
24 Jun 1970
- Theatrical
Denmark
18 Dec 1970
- Theatrical
Finland
18 Sep 1970
- Theatrical
France
26 Feb 1971
- TheatricalU
Germany
27 Nov 1970
- Theatrical16 West Germany
Greece
10 Dec 1970
- Theatrical13
Hungary
24 May 1984
- Theatrical16
Ireland
09 Oct 1970
- TheatricalPG
Japan
26 Dec 1970
- Theatrical
Netherlands
23 Mar 2002
- TV12 SBS 6
17 Apr 2002
- Physical12 DVD
07 Jun 2010
- Physical12 Blu ray
Norway
03 Jun 1971
- Theatrical
Poland
01 Feb 1975
- Theatrical12
Portugal
12 Feb 1971
- TheatricalM/12
30 Jun 1981
- Theatrical Re-release
Russian Federation
14 Jan 2002
- Physical DVD
South Africa
03 Sep 1970
- Theatrical
South Korea
31 Jul 1970
- Theatrical15
Spain
23 Apr 1971
- Theatrical
16 Apr 1982
- Theatrical Re-release
Sweden
02 Dec 1970
- Theatrical15
Turkey
06 Nov 1972
- Theatrical
UK
22 Jun 1970
- TheatricalPG
USA
23 Jun 1970
- TheatricalPG
01 Aug 2000
- PhysicalPG
Popular reviews
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I love any movie that makes the unspeakable horrors of World War II seem like having fun with the boys.
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“Feel-good war movie” is kind of an oxymoron, but I’ll take it.
Clint Eastwood, again acting as the symbol of peak masculinity in cinema, plays a disgraced WWII officer with a chip on his shoulder who leads a rag tag group of American soldiers behind enemy lines after discovering the location of a secret stash of Nazi gold in this buddy adventure that ends up being 70% heist mission, 30% lighthearted comedy.
Along for the ride are Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, and Donald Sutherland in what may be his best comedic turn outside of M*A*S*H (which released the same year) as Sergeant “Oddball”, the spaced-out tank commander. Also deserving of a shout out is Carroll O’Connor, here playing a 2-star…
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Don't talk to me about your big, big heroes.
The expression on Clint Eastwood's face when Donald Sutherland's Oddball talks him through his mini battalion of Sherman tanks and what he normally does with them when they go into battle is one of the many little delights that Kelly's Heroes has behind it in amongst the larger ones.
The worst thing you can do when you come into watching this film is thinking that it is going to be a proper war film. Because it's not. You've got Sutherland playing a hippie at least 20 years before there probably was such a thing and going round using phrases like, "Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?" You've…
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"We're just soldiers, right? We don't even know what this war's all about. All we do is we fight and we die, and for what?"
this is a terrific caper film; rollicking, hilarious, cynical...war as an act of pure self-interest. nobody seems to care just where all that Nazi gold came from.
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English Version below🟠🟢🔵
Nach knapp einhundertdreißig geloggten Filmen um das Thema Krieg, zig weiteren vergessenen und erst einen Rewatch benötigenden, wohl einer der großen Außenseiter innerhalb des Kriegsgenres und innerhalb meiner Ranglinste.
Der erste, und einzige Vergleich innerhalb meiner Liste die „Stoßtrupp Gold“ zulässt, ist der mit dem 2014 in die Kinos erschienene, von George Clooney gedrehte wie gespielte „Monuments Men“, einem, welch Ironie, der letzten Plätze einnimmt. Beinhalten beide Filme eine ähnliche Ausgangslage, in „Stoßtrupp Gold“ macht sich, angeführt von Clint Eastwood, eine Aufklärungseinheit daran, eine 30km hinter den Linien befindliche Bank mit seinen 14.000 Baren Gold auszurauben wobei in „Monuments Men“, dieses Mal angeführt von George Clooney, eine Spezialeinheit sich aufmacht, diverse, von den Nazis gestohlene Kunstgegenstände in… -
Not much to see here that previous men-on-a-mission movies didn't hit first and harder (The Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare, etc), right down to the violent cynicism and war-profiteering angle. Worth it however for the stacked cast clearly having fun working together (goofy, stoner Donald Sutherland MVP) and the last half hour which gets pretty close to Spaghetti Western territory—even if it's a lot closer to American hangout film vibes than the brutal Italian ones it probably should be.
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ENGLISH below
"Kelly's Heroes" (Deutsch: Stosstrupp Gold) ist wie 'ne verwirrte Mission, aber Clint Eastwood und Donald Sutherland sorgen für echte Star-Power und überzeugen mit ihren nuancierten Darstellungen.
Die Truppe, die sich um Eastwood versammelt, ist wild gemischt, und ihre Reise, um hinter die feindlichen Linien zu gelangen und Gold zu holen, hat echt komische Momente. Die Actionszenen sind gut, besonders die Panzerschlacht in Clermont. Die Handlung, die auf einer wahren Geschichte basiert, fesselt durch ihre Intensität und moralischen Dilemmas. Obwohl der Film in seiner Erzählstruktur gelegentlich vorhersehbar ist, verleiht die solide Inszenierung und die authentische Atmosphäre diesem Kriegsdrama eine angemessene Qualität.
Insgesamt präsentiert sich "Kelly's Heroes" als eine wilde Farce mit Höhen und Tiefen, obwohl ich persönlich "Agenten sterben…
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In the years I've been logging my film diary on LB there's only been a couple of times when I've actually noticed the odd memorable milestone. Kingdom of Heaven was my 4000th diary entry, Mr. Holmes was my 5000th diary entry, and my 1000th review was Prince's Purple Rain. I've kept a movie diary now since September 2009, almost 9 years, and this film will be my 3000th review.
Brian G. Hutton directed the Clint Eastwood/Richard Burton war classic Where Eagles Dare back in 1968. It was the stuff of those old Commando Comics, a typically thrilling adaptation of Alistair MacLean's novel where Eastwood's character literally killed more Germans than Bomber Command did. Kelly's Heroes from just two years later… -
War Profiteering
Much like its sibling-film Where Eagles Dare, director Brian G. Hutton delves Kelly’s Heroes into being yet another expensively epic production over a very simple basic premise that delivers on a deliciously campy entertainment in a WW2 backdrop, while this time playing as a straight on heist movie behind enemy lines.
If the proceeding 140 minutes of a epic circus parade of chaos lead by one small army of men rings and feels a bit The Italian Job-ish, well is from the same screenwriter Troy Kennedy-Martin, so the utter nonsense is a creative effect shared by both movies, and that’s played here throughout with dead serious commitment from the performers.
With the direction really going for the ‘Men…
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Sort of an odd duck of a WWII movie. Instead of the jingoistic American flag waving salute to those "heroes of the Greatest Generation" that almost all of them are. This is more of a blood brother to Altman's M.A.S.H. War is chaos, people are self centered and fuck it all--I'm going for the gold.
We open on a platoon of troops held together by their barking dog NCO Telly Savalas as they are being shelled by their own incompetent artillery. Their CO is off somewhere trying to salvage a yacht for himself. And Eastwood finds out about a massive stash of gold bouillon gathered by the Nazis. They are ordered to stand pat for a few days while the…
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Kelly’s Heroes is a fun, adventurous, action-packed men-on-a-mission mixed with a heist movie set in WWII. Director Brian G. Hutton, who also directed Clint Eastwood in the much more serious but also gripping men-on-a-mission movie Where Eagles Dare, makes the most out of a seemingly considerable budget. This movie looks and feels big and has a lot of very impressive action set-pieces. But what really works best here is the cast. Eastwood, Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland standout performances. And the rest of the supporting cast, including Don Rickles and a very young Harry Dean Stanton, is also very good.
I also think they had a pretty good script to work with. The dialogue and the interactions between the characters…
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