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Kelly's Heroes
from Warner Home Video
starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland
directed by Brian G. Hutton

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Overlooked WWII cult classic
  This is one of my favorite WWII movies of all time. Normally, I really don't like to watch movies more than once or twice, but this one I can watch over and over again. I read a critic review of this movie several years back and he said it was just a poor rehash of "The Dirty Dozen". Nothing could be further from the truth.
  This is what you would consider a "Black Comedy". It has both sublime and hilarious comedic performances interwoven with pathos, suspense and hard-hitting WWII action. It has a... more info

• An Awful Eastwood Bomb!
  Stay away from this awful movie. although Eastwood's done a lot of great work in his 40 + years of filmaking, this is one movie to pass up. Donald Sutherland's hippie character is a complete waste, while Carroll O'Conner's character is simply a caricature of an inept army general. Eastwood does his wooden impression of a concerned soldier. Sadly, Savals and Rickles are the best actors in the whole movie. Poor attention to detail throughout: no one gets dirty or has a five o'clock shadow, despite marching... more info

• One of my favs!
  Received quickly and in very good condition. One of my most fav movies ever!

• Vietnam Redux-But Without Bitterness
  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... more info

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