DVD : Kelly's Heroes
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790745831
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790745836
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 01, 2000
Running Time: 144 minutes
Sales Rank: 2557
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 23, 1970
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They were goldbricks until learning of the gold bricks a fortune in nazi-confiscated bullion. Special features: original theatrical trailer and brand-new transfer and dolby surround 5.1 remix. Subtitles in english and french. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/26/2005 Starring: Clint Eastwood Don Rickles Run time: 143 minutes Rating: R Director: Brian G Hutton
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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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Received quickly and in very good condition. One of my most fav movies ever!
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In KELLY'S HEROES, director Brian Hutton succeeds in reviving an earlier DIRTY DOZEN, and combines it with a Vietnam War style flair of left-wing anti-militarism that nevertheless carries the audience from start to finish. Clint Eastwood is cast in a role well-suited to his earlier penchant for playing the bounty hunter. Here he has learned of the existence of sixteen million dollars of gold in a German occupied French bank. He allies himself with a motley horde of names well-known to credit readers of the late 1960s: Telly Savalas as the loudmouthed sergeant, Carrol O'Oconnor as the equally loudmouthed cartoonish general, Donald Southerland as the hippiesh bearded tank commander, and Gavin MacLeod as the fumbling mechanic.
Much of the film is an uneasy mixture of a standard shoot-em-up war film of tanks, screaming strafing aircraft, and bloody ambushes with a comedic subtext of mercenary soldiers who view the war as a source of profit. Casualties on both sides are vastly different. Germans get blown away by the hundreds yet only two GIs die. This differential in mortality is needed to keep the film on track as a sometimes funny anti-war film that undoubtedly seemed hilarious in a Vietnam obsessed America of 1970 and only somewhat less humorous in an equally Iraq obsessed America of 2008. One does not question the many logical gaps involved in Eastwood's leadership of his mercenaries without his superiors finding out. Indeed, with the buffoonish Carrol O'Connor ... Read More
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I bought this movie for my dad as a gift. He said he couldn't find it anywhere! So, I knew where to go! Amazon has everything! He was so excited! It is one of his favorite movies. I remember watching it with him before. It is an excellent and very funny movie! (and I'm not big on war movies!)
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Even though I own this DVD, I would never say it's a great movie. Most of the other reviews here must be from people in their 40s and beyond (I'm in my 30s). I say that because they must have seen this movie when they were young and it affected them in a way that has colored their current point of view. IMO, this is one of Clint's most forgettable movies, along with 'Where Eagles Dare', and later, 'Heartbreak Ridge', 'Pink Cadillac', and 'The Rookie'.
The biggest problem with this movie is that Clint isn't a 'group guy'-he's a loner and that's one of the key ingredients that makes so many of his other movies work. Though his character is seen as an 'off by himself kind of guy', he's still part of the unit. For him to be able to drive jeeps around and do his own thing (on apparently his own schedule) doesn't jibe. When you're in the military, your a grunt, stuck with the rest of the grunts. There are no allowances made just because you'd rather be alone. You're thrown in with the rest, and you're your stuck with them. Even though Kelly outranks a lot of the other guys, he is supposed to be part of that unit. For him to have carte blanche to roam around as he does isn't believable. Had the storyline had Kelly as someone (not necessarily a soldier) who was a lone entity, with no ties to any one group or side, it would have played out better imo. With Clint forced to be a part of the group, he looks constipated trying to squeeze his words out.
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If ever there was a "guy" movie....this is it! Eastwood, Rickles, Savalas, O`Connor and especially Sutherland shine in this lighthearted 'Dirty Dozen' clone that will keep you smiling from beginning to end! It does seem slightly dated now, but who cares!....this was Hollywood in the great days when stars sold a picture! This is a must see film and the DVD transfer looks very good. It's a shame there isn't too much in the way of extra material.:-(
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starring: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland
directed by: Brian G. Hutton
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790745831
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790745836
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 01, 2000
Running Time: 144 minutes
Sales Rank: 2557
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 23, 1970
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