Kelly's Heroes (1970) | "I am going with or without you" | Classic WWII Movie 

Thanks so much for your sharing! This is such a beautiful tribute to a great actor, Donald Sutherland. In the description I wrote: Donald Sutherland did this movie as Val Kilmer did to Tombstone 1993, when he was still with us. RIP. 🙏

thank you for a great commentaary. i always skim youtube comments when i have time hoping for great insight into the world.

thank you for sharing that.

Great write-up. Thanks for this.

Makin me Feel old Bro😁😁😁

Amen. We lost a great actor who was in countless films and films.

"Forward Hooooo!!!!'

Awe man, don't hit me with them negative waves...so early in the morning.

“Woof, woof, woof! That's my other dog imitation.”

Legend

Along with Where Eagles Dare. [Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood et al]

Hardly...but a good song

I worked in a movie theater when Three Kings came out. Every time a middle aged guy asked me what the movie was, I would say "Kelly's Heroes in Iraq". They would then rush to buy tickets and popcorn before it started

We like to get out of trouble faster than we got in it 😂

@@Shaun-sn6nn HAHA I remember that line!!

I agree,take the money 💰 and run

We ain't got no booze

@@aaarauz1 well get some!- Big Joe 🤣

y'know I think you might be right :( Time takes no prisoners

I think Tom Troupe (Corporal Job, was killed in mine field scene in the movie) is still alive.

I think so too 😢

David Margolis stills around?

​@@steveg18556 David Margolis died in 2016.

Yup, it's one of those films that has unintentionally become a classic like the original of The Italian Job. 😄

Mine too. I live in New Zealand and my dad was Camp Commondant at Addington Barracks in Christchurch, the parents and I went to that plus the Battle of Britain premier, serving Officers and retired big wigs had first dibs at the tickets for the BOB movie.From that day on I have always followed Oddball, in Klute he did a great part with Jane Fonda as the female subject of interest.

Amen! Such positive waves!

Funny I never considered it an anti-war film, although I guess it can be seen that way. It is most definitely an anti-Establishment film!

Ya, Skills Pete.

Hear Hear. RESPEC.

I requested ERIKA or DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLES to be played WHILE my ashes are BEING scattered in the wind. Didn't have the time to perform that in my previous Life..we were in such a chaos at STALINGRAD.. REALLY! 😮😢

That song I've adopted as my personal theme. It describes my life. I was so much smarter than everybody else. I had all the answers... so how come all those people I was smarter than have families and careers and money and success... and I have none of it? I guess I should have listened to my friends.

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Oddball did this movie a bit like Val Kilmer did to Tombstone 1993, put some goofy entertainment in the movie. 😂🕹

Rolling off some obscure French gal...

Thanks for the financial analysis, 😂🕹🎉

USD $15 million per guy?

Today’s value = $960,000,000. Your math is way off. $35/oz vs currently about 2,100/oz. The correct multiplier is 60.

@@richarddietzen3137 even better, was calculated using Google search, not my maths.

@@richarddietzen3137 That's not the comparison to make, though. They can't spend gold ingots, they'll have to sell them, so the correct measure is the dollars they can get for the gold in 1944 vs the value of a dollar today. The money they will get for the gold (if they get something close to market value) translates to $280 million today.

Excellent comment my friend !

It's one of the glories of capitalism.

@@Hiraghm Enlightened self-interest! It does make the world go 'round! 👍😎

Or a war between friends.

Same, watch it at least once a year.

Thanks for sharing, that is a beautiful memory!🎉🕹

Truly EPIC ACTOR! RIP, 🙏

Everyone forgets he played the "Clumsy Waiter" in ZAZ's Kentucky Fried Movie. An epic role.

well said!🕹🎉

Beautiful childhood memories attached with a great movie, priceless!🕹🎉🍿

Woof! Woof! Woof! That was his OTHER dog imitation.

@@selfdo Ha ha. You beat me to it, So hilarious.

Just behind Jaws for me.

Agreed! My all time fave as well.

Thanks! What a sweet memory associated with a great movie 🕹🎉🎉

This magic is hard to be replicated. 🕹🎉

They'll all be transgender.

The cast will all be alphabet people, and the dialogue will be woke lecturing.

They already did. Three Kings from 1999 starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube. It's kind of loosely based on Kelly's Heroes.

Nah, this movie is impossible to replicate. Even if someone is crazy enough to replicate it, the movie wont make money..

He portrayed Beauregard in the Hunley, Great acting

May he rest in peace.

The good, The hilarious, and the witty, 🕹🎉

I do also, a couple 3 times a year...lol😂😂😂😂 it's awesome!!!!

“Look, when we was in the bocage country, we was assaulted by dem Tigers. You know what I mean by assaulted? Well, I mean assaulted!”

@troll4445 Of course, no Tigers were facing the Americans in the bocage country. They were all facing the British and Canadians around Caen. Moriarity probably mistook Panthers for Tigers. Or even Panzer IVs. 😉

@@lyndoncmp5751 Every German tank was a Tiger! Ha!

​@@troll4445 Even a German soldier on a bicycle waving his pump at somebody 😅

@@lyndoncmp5751 Agree. Check out Wittmans rampage through Villers-Bocage against a British column of light armoured vehicles and Cromwell Tanks. He destroyed over 25 assorted Bren, half tracks and tanks before losing a track and abandoning his tank and escaping.

You should see him in "The Eagle Has Landed"... one of the most personable villains ever.

Thanks! That is so true. 🕹

I don't understand. Could you explain that for me?

Could've been used to find the range. The M1 76 mm gun was a bitch to bore-sight, from what the old tankers have said.

Waves

Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?

Yeah, it's waves. Quotation marks matter.

"Can't you say something hopeful and righteous for a change?" "Crap."

It's a wasted trip, Baby.

well said! gold of memories. 🕹🎉

Adding in the sound of spurs as they're walking down the street was a stroke of genius by the filmmaker.

a great collection of stars that will never be too old, well said! 🕹

Thanks for sharing, that is a great supporting story for this movie's drama, 🕹

RIP Oddball (Donald Sutherland).

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Thanks, you are my hero. 🕹🎉😂

Actually, it is. Sort of. There was a large cache of German gold that was intercepted by a small unit (sorry, I don't know the official term) and disappeared.

There was no reason for they and that Tiger crew to split up. Kelly, Big Joe et al are already deserters, subject to at least one long stay at Leavenworth, if not being shot (happened to PTV Eddie Slovik, but for a different reason), and even before they agreed to blow down the bank's door for a share of the gold, the German tank crew were already facing being either shot or sent to a "punishment" battalion for failing to hold the bank, with General Colt and the rest of the division on its way. Either way, their longevity is doubtful. The SS-Oberscharfuhrer took a chance they weren't lying to him (likely his radioman is ready with the MG in case Kelly, Big Joe, and Oddball try something...), because, realistically, their only chance to survive is to ditch the Tiger and their SS uniforms and head for Switzerland themselves. May as well do that with these screwball GIs; hell, they've already pulled off one helluva heist thus far! The REAL questions should be that German "Opel Blitz", actually a post-war Czech-made Praga truck, which would be in the reserve or surplus stocks of the then-Yugoslav Army which furnished also the T-34/85s that were already mocked up as "Tigers" (for a native film shot there the previous year) also, be able to carry even the gold that Kelly and his boys kept after divvying up with the Germans and Oddball and his crew? I'd say that TIGER, leaky fuel system and all, is more capable of hauling the gold, but it's THIRSTY and rather CONSPICUOUS, and that, as Moriarty would point out, it's likely to break down long before they made it to Switzerland. It'd have been more realistic IF Kelly, the Germans, and Oddball and his boys were able to quickly scrounge SEVERAL such trucks, and improvise a CONVOY, those being enough to actually haul that gold. That was the problem that the goofy Oberst Dankopf faced, he supposedly HAD the trucks, but was scrounging for fuel, and he'd had been better off to somehow work out a "deal, deal" with Crapgame. Also, though obviously the Germans are actually kinda "thin" in that sector (they'd been holding that town that Kelly, Big Joe et al charged through when Mulligan actually put his artillery on time and target, which Big Joe said would be a FIRST for him (the actor was played by Telly Savalas's brother, George Savalas, who also was a regular in "Kojak"), and, with the unexpected penetration of Colt's division that HE wasn't informed of (but he enjoyed hearing the river crossing, aka "the ballgame", on the radio), they're obviously bugging the hell out of Clermont, but there's still about a hundred or so miles to the Swiss border, and there's still PLENTY of Germans on the way! A great follow-up story would be that the Tiger, crewed by both Oddball and the Oberscharfuhrer (Played by Karl-Otto-Alberty, who appeared as some German character in just about every big WWII film of the 1960s and 1970s, his name is never given) follows the truck(s) and "escorts" them to the German border, helping them either bluff their way, or SHOOT, past the German checkpoints, or use SOME of the gold to bribe them, hell, maybe the German soldiers at said checkpoints shoot their officers and JOIN the caper, which DILUTES their shares, but what the hell... A really DARK point...Oddball was (nominally) in charge of THREE Shermans, who never got a replacement CO, presumably "decapitated by an '88", which Oddball wasn't sorry about, as the 1LT had been trying to get them killed ever since they'd landed at Omaha Beach (presumably well AFTER June 6th). So, ONE of the tanks was "in the river", presumably having gotten stuck or swamped as it tried to ford, and the other M4, which Kelly and Big Joe are "sheltering" next to (not too afraid of something cooking off, are they?), is burning, which Oddball TELLS them (I'd think they ALREADY knew). I can see the burning M4's crew being dead and their bodies being consumed by the flames if they took an anti-tank or Panzerfaust round, but what of the abandoned M4 in the river? Were they shot or hit by mortar fire as they ditched the tank? I sure didn't see ANY of the other tankers of Oddball's platoon clambering aboard his tank as they pushed on to Clermont! As for the homosexual musicians in the marching band ("they're 'freaks', which was the means to hint at their sexuality ca. 1970, and although being gay would have rendered them "unsuitable" for the Army, being manpower-hungry, as long as they weren't too blatant about it ("don't ask, don't tell"), they'd put them to work suitable for them...like the marching band, who knew they could and would FIGHT? That gold was one helluva motivator, a great "outtake" would be Maitland and Colt having surreptitiously set it all up so that the division ("my 'army', though a two-star is typically a DIVISION CO) "back in the war", with the notion that they'd take the gold for themselves, especially Maitland, who already was figuring out how to get a purloined boat into a B-17, then being pissed when it was found that Kelly et al double-crossed them. Finally, that entire scene of debauchery at the depot, behind Cragame's "office" of Oddball and his boys...they also had to be well-persuaded to leave all that, especially the booze, food, and GIRLS...and did anyone notice that the gal hanging up the wash is obviously quite great with CHILD? I didn't know, given the time frame of the film (September 1944), that Oddball and/or his boys could work THAT fast, as they couldn't have landed at Omaha any sooner than June 6, 1944!

Big Joe knows that w/o his gruff guidance, his me will get themselves KILLED, which a few do anyway. If they bolt and join Kelly, and he doesn't, he's no choice but to alert Maitland, his CO, and the MPs, and he hates BOTH with a passion. For an E-7 to go along with such a thing isn't realistic. I'll hazard a guess that due to Telly Salavas' age, 47, when the movie was produced, he's a "retread", i.e. someone that served ALSO in WWI, as there were quite a few of them in real life, and that's why he, obviously not a "lifer", else he'd never have the attitudes he does, and still made E-7. But there's quite a few head-scratchers in this film, at some point, you just have to suspend disbelief and enjoy the freakin' movie!

Somewhere he's relaxing on a lawn chair, drinking wine, eating cheese, catching some rays...RIP, "Oddball".

Archie Bunker is, was, and still is the man. You're right, I love Carroll O'Connor in this, he's just brilliant.

@@meanmadmonkey7762 It amazes me that Archie Bunker was in his late 40s, early 50s when All in the Family was just beginning. I'm older than Archie Bunker. Eesh. Who'd a thunk it? Carroll would have been 100 years old. That is... incomprehensible to me. He seems so... timeless. Damn. 😓

Caroll O' Connor was actually nothing in his personal life like either Archie Bunker nor General Colt. He also played the more taciturn, but still somewhat outspoken and gruff MG Hunter, who calls Colonel Frederick (Bill Holden) an "insolent bastard" in "The Devil's Brigade". That man was the best example of ACTING there ever was.

He was an actor full of fun, RIP 🙏

Great movies related to good old day memories, that is priceless. 🕹🎉

We're sheep and therefore expendable. That's how the powers that be see us. Thankfully,those of us who have a few brain cells will choose never to allow ourselves to be used as pawns in politicians war games.

Retired Marine General Smedley Butler said the same thing in his late-'30s book "War Is A Racket". He and his men had been suckers used by Wall Street and the big bankers to subvert democracy and to create 'banana republics'.

Thanks for your comment. 🕹🎉

"If he's a major, he's a colonel now!" "Get the hell out of here, we've got the game on!"

Thanks for your comments. 🕹🍿

Telly was a heck of field commander perfectly matching the role in this movie.🕹

Agreed!

Thanks for the financial analysis, but you got two numbers, $13,115,816,000 and $189,560,000. Which is the final one? 🕹😂💛

@@motionattached Sell the gold bars in 1944 and they'd have got US$189,560,000. Keep the gold bars and sell today and it is US$13,115,816,000. :)

@hoperp1951 I don't think they could have waited until now. Even the youngest at possibly 18 in 1944 would be 98 now.

@@joelellis7035 They could use those gold as property to finance some money they need 😂🕹

14000 bars at 400 troy ounces per bar is 5.6 million ounces. 1944 rate for gold was $35 per troy ounce. That's 196 million dollars in 1944. Purchasing power today would be in the billions.