Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: EASTWOOD,CLINT 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: 143 minutes Sales Rank: 3098 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 23, 1970
Product Description: A group of soldiers set out to rob a bank and almost win World War II. Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure Rating: PG Release Date: 8-FEB-2005 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: 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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Rating: - 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 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Classic movie
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!)
Rating: - Not the great movie everyone here thinks...
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 ... Read More
Rating: - CLASSIC ALL STAR CAST WAR EPIC COMEDY!
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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