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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 | ... |
Willard
(as Dean Stanton)
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Dick Balduzzi | ... | ||
Gene Collins | ... |
During World War II a German Colonel is captured by the Americans but before he can be interrogated an artillery barrage hits the camp. However, Ex-Lieutenant Kelly manages to reach the Colonel, get him drunk and learn that he is on a secret mission to ship $16,000,000 of gold to a base in France. Kelly is determined to get the gold and plans for himself and a few of his fellow soldiers to slip into enemy territory and steal the bullion. Written by Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk>
Kelly's Heros brilliantly mixes your average war movie with a bank robbery movie to come up with a plot that's entirely unique.
Equipped with an all-star cast, Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas play the straight guys to the comic antics of Donald Sutherland and Don Rickles. The movie makes no moral judgements about bad guys and good guys and simply shows the characters of both sides a path to redemption in the midst of war. In addition, the theme song, "Burning Bridges" is rendered with a youthful tone by the Mike Curb Congregation, which reminds us that in reality, people not much removed from childhood are the ones sent into battle.
We cheer when they get their just rewards.