Kelly's Heroes

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

Cast

Clint Eastwood

as Sergeant First Class Kelly

Telly Savalas

as Master Sergeant "Big Joe"

Don Rickles

as Staff Sergeant "Crapgame"

Carroll O'Connor

as Major General Colt

Donald Sutherland

as Sgt. Oddball (tank commander)

Gavin MacLeod

as Moriarty (tank crewman)

Hal Buckley

as Capt. Maitland

Stuart Margolin

as Pvt. Little Joe

Jeff Morris

as Pvt. Cowboy

Richard Davalos

as Pvt. Gutowski

Reviews

John Chard

Crazy! I mean like so many positive waves maybe we can't lose! You're on! Brian G. Hutton followed the considerable success he had had with 1968's Where Eagles Dare, with this, another men on a mission movie - only this one is very much a different animal. Hutton directs and Troy Kennedy-Martin w...

Wuchak

**_Amusing all-star WW2 dramedy/action flick with Eastwood and Savalas_** Clint Eastwood stars as the title character who convinces Sgt. Big Joe (Telly Savalas), his platoon, and a free-spirited Sherman tank commander (Donald Sutherland) to spend their three-day leave on a gold heist at a French ...

CinemaSerf

I think this is probably my favourite outing for Telly Savalas on the big screen as he decides to join his eponymous lieutenant (Clint Eastwood) on a perilous journey across enemy lines. With shells going off everywhere, their platoon captures a Nazi officer who reveals that there is a bank in rural...

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