When it comes to classic WW2 movies, they don't get much better than Kelly's Heroes, the 1970 classic starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland.
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@AdeptusMumbles2 жыл бұрын
Back when movies were good and not full of negative waves.
@TheRadioAteMyTV2 жыл бұрын
You could say the same thing of Free Guy (thank GOD!!!!) There is hope in the air).
@mmyers64412 жыл бұрын
So sad. Today you're supposed to feel ashamed for just entertaining yourself. Almost everything has to have a certain political direction and is getting preachy. 🤐
@stxrobstar2 жыл бұрын
@@mmyers6441 "The Message"
@bartsullivan48662 жыл бұрын
Awesome I love it AdeptMumbles Oddball was a National Treasure before his time
@BillPeschel2 жыл бұрын
I still use the "negative waves" line where appropriate.
@kanthony7762 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when having an “All Star Cast” meant quality.
@valentinegonsalves73222 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking the same thing. Hollywood is probably gonna find this gem and do an all-female remake. So Kelly will be a "wahman". It'll star Amy Schumer as Kelly, and the rest will be a bunch of female rappers you haven't heard of. And the promotions will all say, "Its like Ocean's Eight, but in WW-2". And yes, there will be more than Black people and Asian people on Team America Good Side.
@nagoranerides31502 жыл бұрын
To be honest, "All Star Cast" has almost always meant "We spent so much time and money getting all these people together, and promised ALL their agents that they'll ALL have something really meaty/funny to do that the script was a complete mess". Kelly's Heros is an exception, not a a beacon of a better and bygone age.
@shack81102 жыл бұрын
from the 2-time emmy-nominated director of something you've never heard of, starring the oscar-nominated star of a really horrible film, comes a tale of a woman, and her search for a clean toilet
@stijnvdv22 жыл бұрын
yeah, just take the worst movie of 20 years ago and compared to today's standards it's still a masterpiece. As for WW2 movies.... there are so many of them that I at some point in time got a bit tired by it.... like it's 100 years ago people, it's not like the war ended just 5 years ago. And I ain't taking the shit of 'look how bad the nazi's were'.... I think that's the most hypocritical thing I've heard. Like The Americans discriminated and put Japanese Americans in camps too, the Japanese did it to practically anybody in Indonesia and also worked them to death with their death bridge; the English were pretty much the inventors of concentration camps during the Boer Wars and the conditions in the camps were equally horrifying; the Russians also had their gulags; I guess so much for 'this must never happen again'. Canada and Australia are making theirs now to lock up the unvxed and N-Korea basically is the largest concentration camp in the world; America still has Quantanamo Bay and you can go on and on and on and on..... so I'm pretty tired of the 'only nazi's were bad' argument at this point in time. The witch hunt has also taken enormous ridiculous proportions by people still trying to hunt down 97 year old female paper pushing females that only worked for the government and happened to be stationed in a camp vs murderers of a cold case even after bragging and showing all the documentation here about their murder going free coz the case has expired legally. That's how ridiculous it has become.
@batchagaloopytv58162 жыл бұрын
exactly - just the cast alone would make "oh hun we gotta see this" be a frequent statement
@dantetre2 жыл бұрын
51 years old and still better than 99% of today's movies.
@bryanmower27032 жыл бұрын
I've grown from boy to middle aged man, watching my Kelly's Hero's remain timeless
@sidwainhouse2 жыл бұрын
"Woof Woof, that's my other dog imitation" - The man, the myth, the legend, the one and only Oddball.
@booshmcfadden76382 жыл бұрын
"Why are you always sending out them negative waves, man?" "To a New Yorker like you a hero is some kinda weird sandwich!"
@mmyers64412 жыл бұрын
Yep! There was a sweet Image on the net, where he had little Kiefer Sutherland on his shoulders. Cant find it anymore
@ninjabearpress25742 жыл бұрын
After this one, it was fun to see Sutherland and Eastwood work together again in Space Cowboys. I kept waiting to hear, "Always with the negative waves, man."
@mmyers64412 жыл бұрын
@@ninjabearpress2574 Space Cowboys is epic fun.
@AndyG732 жыл бұрын
Here - have some wine to drink and cheese to eat.
@richd89072 жыл бұрын
"I only ride ’em, I don’t know what makes ’em work." great line and could be used for anything; cars, bikes, planes, Tatiana...
@icepicjoey2 жыл бұрын
Tatiana... 👍🤣
@ivanstrydom84172 жыл бұрын
Thank you for stating the obvious.
@bartsullivan48662 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Days of Thunder a little bit. But it is a great line that's for sur. Brut honestly is sorely lacking in modern Hollywood movies. Like Rey being able to fly a star ship without any pilot training or modern action movie. It would be funny to get a modern movie of an action hero not knowing how to drive a stick shift or something realistic along those lines.
@larrybrown18242 жыл бұрын
Patton himself pretty much said the same thing. He knew how to use armor, but he didn't know anything about the tanks.
@elcaponeholyemperorofnj11692 жыл бұрын
Women?
@uncleeric33172 жыл бұрын
Captain Maitland: “…And don’t forget, the penalty for looting is death.” As he trucks away a sailing yacht.
@Cliff_Dixon_422 жыл бұрын
"LOOT WHAT?!? THERE'S NOTHING HERE TO LOOT!!!"-- Big Joe
@thisandthat17012 жыл бұрын
@@Cliff_Dixon_42 theres no booze ,theres no broads ,theres no action!!
@chriswhite36922 жыл бұрын
@@thisandthat1701 Well I tell you what! We're gonna get some booze!
@laszlomiskei91382 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: "Where Eagles Dare" was made by the same director. Worth an extra shot :)
@ScienceChap2 жыл бұрын
GREAT call! "Broadsword calling Danny boy"
@gibby2372 жыл бұрын
@@ScienceChap Just in case... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ariCnZR6saqlmH0.html
@christianclark3472 жыл бұрын
@@gibby237 Lol. Drinker's so on top of it, he did it half a year ago.
@Litauen-yg9ut2 жыл бұрын
Also pretty decent
@RobVespa2 жыл бұрын
More than worth an extra shot. While Kelly's Heroes is a very entertaining film, it can be argued that Where Eagles Dare is a better one.
@reasonablist41082 жыл бұрын
"Listen... I got a little favor to ask of you." ... "Will you stop crying I haven't even asked you yet! What the hell's the matter with you!?"
@starkilr1012 жыл бұрын
Clint Eastwood is a legend. When he passes, it will be a sad day for all
@mala62382 жыл бұрын
Facts.
@stevewhite34242 жыл бұрын
So true! Jesus Christ the dude was 56 years old when he played the hard-ass gunny in heartbreak ridge.
@ninjabearpress25742 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but look at all he's left us. MeTV has Rawhide, check your local listings, but gawd Eastwood looks so damn young.
@BillPeschel2 жыл бұрын
True, but he gave (and is still giving) so much. That's the best any of us can do.
@Stealth6392 жыл бұрын
I'm dreading that day. He's my all time favorite actor. I grew up on Dirty Harry and the man with no name.
@dall17862 жыл бұрын
They just don't make quality movies like this any more. A Masterpiece.
@DT-sb9sv2 жыл бұрын
Kelly's Heroes is on my top ten of all time movies. A Christmas tradition in my family.
@sort1872 жыл бұрын
Christmas? I gotta hear the explanation for this one........
@phillipmccurdy96552 жыл бұрын
Actually my top 5
@RobVespa2 жыл бұрын
Ha - Love it. Reminds me of Die Hard. Funny how so many older movies dealing with serious content matter were more family friendly than even "light" films made today. Just an observation.
@mathieuvanleeuwen71272 жыл бұрын
woof woof !
@suflanker452 жыл бұрын
Don Rickles as Crap Game was great in this movie. " I'm coming with you guys. Switzerland is only 30 miles away and I don't want anybody getting lost."
@DT-sb9sv2 жыл бұрын
A DEAL, deal! Maybe the guy's a Republican. "Business is business," right?
@Cliff_Dixon_422 жыл бұрын
"Hey, Hogan? It's Crapgame. I gotcha the Scotch and the nylons you wanted. Yeahhh . . . Do I ever fail ya? You better believe it -- never miss. Listen. I, uh . . . I've got a little favor to ask of ya. . . . WILL YOU STOP CRYING? I HAVEN'T EVEN ASKED YA YET!! 'DA HELL'S THE MATTER WITH YA?!?"
@Slider7122 жыл бұрын
@@Cliff_Dixon_42 🤣🤣🤣 one of my favorite scenes in almost any movie. Rickles delivery of those lines is pure Hollywood gold.
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
A great role for Rickles.
@markroberts9282 жыл бұрын
@@Cliff_Dixon_42 dammit somebody already got this one! Absolutely kills me every time I hear it
@bcatd2 жыл бұрын
Glad to see this review! It was the first date with my eventual wife in 1972. She said she was thinking at the time..."he's taking me to a war movie"? Bottom line... she loved it. We have been married 43 years.
@airgunfun42482 жыл бұрын
rad!
@Litauen-yg9ut2 жыл бұрын
Good for you ,Sir..
@VIC-ds8pd2 жыл бұрын
God bless yall!!!!!
@dannyknightblade45922 жыл бұрын
43 years is a long time! Couples who can stay married for decades deserve some kind of special tax break or something. 43 years is quite impressive. Congratulations to you and your wife!
@puffapuffarice2 жыл бұрын
Congrats! you have 2 years on me & my better/smarter half. Did you see it in a "review" movie house?
@TitusCastiglione1503 Жыл бұрын
What’s always impressed me since I was a kid was how accurate the uniforms/weapons/ equipment actually are. They got good mock-ups of Tiger tanks, used real Shermans, the platoon of GIs look pretty accurate to 1944-1945 period, ect. For a not serious film, Kelly’s Heroes did a better job with historical realism at times than many more serious films of the day bothered to do.
@obviouspseudonym93458 ай бұрын
There are a few things that you notice here and there that are inaccurate. Petuko use a Wz.28 instead of a BAR M1918A2, the sniper in the bell tower uses a Mosin Nagant 91/30 PU instead of a Springfield M1903A4, from what I remember most of the German infantry are wearing the Pre/Early war style uniforms with the bottle green collars and pleated pockets with scalloped flaps. Just minor nitpicks, that only an insane person would notice.
@TitusCastiglione15038 ай бұрын
@@obviouspseudonym9345 The early uniforms were kind of standard fair for Hollywood for time. Though, I noticed they made a valiant attempt to show camouflage zeltbalns being worn by German troops in the beginning.
@obviouspseudonym93458 ай бұрын
@@TitusCastiglione1503 That was a very nice touch. Love me some camo zelts.
@TitusCastiglione15038 ай бұрын
@@obviouspseudonym9345 not depicted enough, IMHO. Especially considering how common they seem to have been.
@obviouspseudonym93458 ай бұрын
@@TitusCastiglione1503 Yeah pretty sure almost every infantryman was issued one for most of the war. Maybe not as practical as a smock for a camouflage garment, but being able to make a tent out of them was probably nice.
@charlesjmouse2 жыл бұрын
Ah, Kelly's Heroes. A film I know almost word for word. How I wish I could completely forget it just so I could properly enjoy the film for the first time all over again.
@hatuletoh2 жыл бұрын
Oh hell yes, I love "Kelly's Heroes!" What are are doing Oddball? Oh, you know...drinking some wine, eating some cheese, catching a few rays."
@wormfood832 жыл бұрын
They are holding themselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris… or maybe even New York.
@wedgeserif5562 жыл бұрын
Imagine that. An original story created solely for the big screen. That's what Hollywood used to be. No franchises, reboots, sequels, remakes, re-imaginings, sequels to remakes, or adaptations of reboots. They used to make fucking MOVIES. I miss movies.
@ninjabearpress25742 жыл бұрын
Yeah, so do I.
@mmyers64412 жыл бұрын
You made my eyes wet
@whos-the-stiff2 жыл бұрын
Now we'd have to have the Kelly's Universe or something worse.
@slidetek2 жыл бұрын
Also we'll never see something like these super cast ensembles.
@rnettles62412 жыл бұрын
Kelly would be a woman of color, Big Joe (and Little Joe) would be gay, Oddball would be a straight, white male conservative.
@awlpiker2 жыл бұрын
“All you need to do is turn your gun around, blow up that door and get an equal share of that gold.” “…..” 3 seconds later everyone is rich and happy! My favourite WW2 film. I was hoping you would review it. Thanks Mr. Drinker!
@ComaDave2 жыл бұрын
"His name's Oddball" and then the eye roll to end all eye rolls. 🙄 Don Rickles, what a legend. One of my all-time fave movies, and Oddball one of the best characters ever filmed.
@chesterbowles79502 жыл бұрын
Me : But Drinker.....I may ask...."Where are the strong female characters?" Drinker : "Don't know............don't care!"
@straywenlove91742 жыл бұрын
they were home, making sammiches, like good women
@charlietoole87072 жыл бұрын
My Mother and her Mom were working 24/7, keeping up their brownstone in Brooklyn to give room and board to soldiers and refugees from around the world, living poor in the city or needy and just passing through. Angels... And The Strongest Of Women! Believe That!!
@JoseyWales44s2 жыл бұрын
On the home front making guns, tanks and planes.
@didinx84172 жыл бұрын
In the case of my late Mum, working in a factory doing all the admin whilst my late Dad made Lancaster bombers!
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
Do not give the woke mob any ideas. Kerry's Heroes staring Kerry Washington.
@cirian752 жыл бұрын
My late mother's favourite film, she was not a girly girl, ending music at her funeral was 'burning bridges'
@feidhlimidhmacanaltha36442 жыл бұрын
Nice.
@Everthus42 жыл бұрын
To be honest, i thing it is very good funeral ending music. Or music. Movie also says a lot about horrors of war, for example after landmine, or when ally planes attack. You can die in every moment. Soldiers, after months of hardship are full of fatigue.
@patrickhamos29872 жыл бұрын
Cheers to her, rest in peace. All those burning bridges that I...
@fredgarv792 жыл бұрын
that is so cool, wow. this shows how great a movie this was when it can appeal to a broad spectrum. I doubt I will have a funeral, but if I did, I think that's a good choice for me, since I have watched this movie probably more than any other over the decades
@derekmcmanus86152 жыл бұрын
Your mother sounds cool it was my grandmother who introduced me to Kelly's Heros she had a video tape of it for her new fangled VCR that she was very proud of.
@storey132 жыл бұрын
My Dad sat me in front of our tv when I was 8 to watch Kelly’s Heroes. So glad he did as it is one of my favorite WW2 movies. Glad you like it!
@mitchellhodgemeyer19502 жыл бұрын
Big shout out to Carol O’Connor, who’s constant reference to the presumed battlefront as ‘the Big Game’ was a treat.
@aaronleverton42212 жыл бұрын
Stars on his dressing gown!
@dukecraig24022 жыл бұрын
"Shut up Booker, can't you see we got the game on here!!!"
@thewkovacs3162 жыл бұрын
and don rickles rickles was really a great actor
@jerryjazzbo28452 жыл бұрын
At times, I couldn't help but think that those references would be something Archie would say.
@NitaKerns2 жыл бұрын
OMG he was so funny! I love the end when he's being driven through the celebration and he thinks its for him!
@outcastmodels49322 жыл бұрын
Honestly, it’s a movie that was ahead of its time. The humor and the over-the-top situation is what we see constantly nowadays in movies. My dad and I still watch this movie because it’s just a great film
@johnwolf28292 жыл бұрын
Hopefully, it will never be re-made by the current crop of scumbags.
@danielt.85732 жыл бұрын
Any bridge blowing up is better than "The Message".
@williammeek7652 жыл бұрын
Try "Where Eagles Dare"
@svenw6882 жыл бұрын
@@johnwolf2829 yea , im certain Kelly would be the first name of a chick in that one
@edwardbloecher45632 жыл бұрын
The music used as well
@thegunslinger13632 жыл бұрын
Clint Eastwood has a new film coming out soon. Hard to believe the man is still acting and directing at 91 years old.
@mala62382 жыл бұрын
Just a living legend in my book.
@Cl0ckcl0ck2 жыл бұрын
Cry Macho, it's out. (But I haven't seen it yet.)
@GingerPiston2 жыл бұрын
Cry Macho is appalling unfortunately. Time for Clint to finally hang it up and retire I think.
@booshmcfadden76382 жыл бұрын
He's a National treasure. He's a patriot, a family man, and talk about hard working...the dude has been on fire for 6 decades.
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
Not bad for a guy whos roles included a lab tech with a mouse in his pocket and a pilot dropping napalm on a giant spider. After that a great western TV shows ans then a trip to Italy and the rest is history. He learned his trade the hard way and his many awards are well deserved.
@davidbarr93432 жыл бұрын
No negative waves from me man! My favourite movie of all time. I have lost count of how many times I have watched it. Burning Bridges...class!
@panpiper2 жыл бұрын
Kelly's Heroes has actually resided in my top ten list for many decades.
@reasonablist41082 жыл бұрын
Excellent pick. My favorite WWII movie and most quotable WWII of all time. "What kind of deal?" "A deal deal. Maybe the guy is a Republican." - This became funnier as I got older.
@rickjohnson95582 жыл бұрын
Telly Savalas, an actor I don't especially like, was SUPERB in this movie---and plays the kind of NCO you hope you get assigned to in a war---tough, no-nonsense, tactically proficient, but whose over-riding concern is getting as many of his men out of a mess in one piece as possible. Each time one of his men gets killed you feel his anguish and self-reproach. Just a magnificent movie.
@peterandjunko2 жыл бұрын
Big Joe is also always in need of some “action”. I also love the scene where they convince him to join the heist.
@koomo8012 жыл бұрын
"Half my equipment is jammed up in the rear!" Big Joe: "UNJAM 'EM!" Skip all the methods of leadership training that managers have to sit through nowadays. Just watch Big Joe in action.
@montylc20012 жыл бұрын
Joe, I think I got the crabs.....
@realrayra2 жыл бұрын
And Savalas played a serious tank sergeant in Battle of the Bulge, in '65. Really some great changeups in Kelly's Heroes.
@sp0rkenste1n462 жыл бұрын
He was good in The Dirty Dozen too.
@moffjendob67962 жыл бұрын
The movie so great even Girls und Panzer had to acknowledge it. Three times.
@Mute82 жыл бұрын
I grew up watching this movie with my grandfather. Glad to see others appreciate it like I do.
@SadPeterPan19772 жыл бұрын
You've got to love any movie that has a hippy tank commander in 1944.
@septimiusseverus3432 жыл бұрын
Kurt Knispel has entered the chat (ok, he was more of a beatnik in temperament).
@nickmitsialis2 жыл бұрын
@@septimiusseverus343 a 'beat', yeah sure...I was surprised how much Knispel looked like Oddball.
@joe61672 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing he turned into a hippy after various... "exploits"... in the deserts of the North African campaign...
@matthewiadanza88732 жыл бұрын
I would not be surprised if Jeff Bridges based his portrayal of The Dude on Oddball.
@eradius2 жыл бұрын
Bridge at Remagen, Kelly's Heroes, Das Boot and Tora Tora Tora are the cream of the crop when it comes to ww2 films
@GeraltofRivia222 жыл бұрын
A Bridge Too Far is also a masterpiece
@CG-vn8iy2 жыл бұрын
@@GeraltofRivia22 I was just about to say the same thing.
@stevewhite34242 жыл бұрын
Bridge over the River kwai has got to be in there also
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
@slaine's axe Excellent film.
@mmyers64412 жыл бұрын
And "The Enemy Below" Curd Jurgens vs. Robert Mitchum. 2nd best Submarine Movie ever made.
@shanelynch77572 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite & one of the best movies ever!!!
@oakroyal7 ай бұрын
I swear this movie has at least 50 great lines. Name another movie like that!
@heraldofwar2 жыл бұрын
Fun trivia for Drinker, The sounds of the electric motors the Tiger tank turrets was later used for the movements of the power lifters in Aliens (1986)
@rmp-xk6lr2 жыл бұрын
Extra fun trivia... after they find the gold and the town is celebrating liberation from the Germans there's a scene where a kid is waving a Nazi flag. Whoopsie
@michaeljames49042 жыл бұрын
@@rmp-xk6lr I doubt that was accidental tbh as the flick was quite purposefully subversive, after decades of hyper-earnest and patriotic WWII movies. The Krauts, even the Waffen-SS tank commander (initially thought a “fanatic”) all turn out to be schlubs, too, just fighting and dying for they-don’t-know-what anymore like everyone else. It’s really an enlisted man’s caper movie that’s phenomenally derisory about the chain of command, because all the senior officers are either loonies, incompetent, or, in the case of the direct CO of Kelly/Big Joe, engaged in wholesale looting - up to and including pinching an entire French yacht and waylaying a huge fighting aircraft to ship it back to the US. (this being what tacitly gives the ethical green light for the “Heroes” to do their own thievery) In the film’s comic cynicism there’s patently a heavy influence of _Catch-22,_ published a near decade earlier in ‘61, but without the book’s air of despairing darkness; and when the boys slow down their own general (patently a pisstake on Patton) who’s pursuing them, by telling the French villagers that De Gaulle’s in his car, I couldn’t help but keel over laughing at the brilliantly insane froggish reaction… Yugoslavia really did do a bang up job of looking like rural France.
@TheRealNormanBates2 жыл бұрын
@@michaeljames4904 _”Patently_ a pisstake on _Patton.”_ I think I see what you did there. 😉
@dukecraig24022 жыл бұрын
More fun trivia, the exhaust sound of the General Lee in The Dukes of Hazzard is from the soundtrack of the 1968 Steve McQueen classic Bullitt.
@michaeljames49042 жыл бұрын
@@dukecraig2402 Meta fun trivia… McQueen’s Mustang in Bullitt, was actually overdubbed: what you’re really hearing’s the sound of a GT40 added on in post.
@bryanbird12662 жыл бұрын
I love how Kelly keeps the three Tigers a secret until everyone is in so deep and committed to the mission so deep they can;t get out.
@KyleAxington2 жыл бұрын
"The only way I have to keep those tigers busy is to let them shoot holes in me!"
@oldfatbastad60532 жыл бұрын
@@KyleAxington crap! 😁
@fiveo91272 жыл бұрын
"that's why I got the tanks" lol I think that line is in the movie and I think Kelly is saying it to Mad dog.
@daveomania_2 жыл бұрын
Big Joe's reaction when he first learns of the tigers is amazing.
@stevem23232 жыл бұрын
@@daveomania_ He knows what they can do.
@luckyintheorder2 жыл бұрын
"why can't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change..." freaking awesome movie I've watched 100+ times since the early 80's when i discovered it.
@MrRandomcommentguy2 жыл бұрын
I cannot describe how much I love this movie, and how much it means to our family. It's kind of our cinematic heirloom that is passed down from one generation to the next.
@sopcannon5 ай бұрын
This and Blues Brothers are my favourite films.
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
"Where am I going to find 100 guys just walking around" Then he looks out the window. Great scene.
@adrianmizen50702 жыл бұрын
Wasn't that (a much younger) Uncle Leo from Seinfeld?
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
@@adrianmizen5070 I never watched Seinfeld so I do not know. However interest will have me look it up.
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
@@adrianmizen5070 Did a check. Len Lesser was his name. Played in 14 episodes of Seinfeld and 9 in Everybody loves Raymond.
@jeromyfisher2972 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget the radio traffic about the grave registration unit
@rumblehat43572 жыл бұрын
Yes, it's Len Lesser.
@austin03512 жыл бұрын
That scene with the general excitedly listening to their radio traffic is probably my favorite part in a absolutely awesome movie!
@tomfagan35862 жыл бұрын
Kelly: “We’re not holding on for five minutes. We’re pulling out and pushing forward. If you can’t keep up, that’s your problem.” General: “You hear that? That’s the fightin’ spirit I was talking about! If that guy’s a major, he’s a colonel now!”
@cacahue2 жыл бұрын
The scene where the general realizes somebody ¨lost¨ his air reconnoissance pics...
@camerondale22772 жыл бұрын
“They’ve even got the god damn grave diggers in there!”
@Vato-Psyko-Loko2 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1972 and grew up with this movie. A great, fun movie for any war movie buff.👍👍👍
@azorahai43302 жыл бұрын
I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know.
@howardalantreesong25882 жыл бұрын
Literally one of the most awesome movies ever made - and one that has stood the test of time, too.
@bingbongabinga29542 жыл бұрын
Every time I watch it I don't want it to end.
@timsmith45482 жыл бұрын
Oddball was my spirit animal when I was on tanks, most likely one of the influences I had when I enlisted for armor when I joined the Army.
@hellsfirefreedomtube69842 жыл бұрын
I’m 36 and this is one of my all time favorites when I was a kid an still is today. Also has one of my favorite songs at the beginning of the movie and at the end. Burning Bridges
@kaiserachim1454 Жыл бұрын
My father was absent for most of my childhood, but I always remember Kelly's Heroes as the first moment we truly bonded. My dad identified as Kelly, and my brother and I identifying with Oddball. God, we must of watched that movie once a week for a year when he came back...good times.
@chaptermasterpedrokantor16232 жыл бұрын
This movie perfectly manages to skirt the fine line between war movie, heist movie and comedy, and it does so without compromising on neither of them. It's being played straight with the humor coming from the surreallity of war and their situation. Kinda like how Shaun of the Dead perfectly managed to blend the drama of Shaun's parents dying with comedy. And best of all, real fucking Sherman tanks and Tigers that look like Tigers, instead of Patton tanks with a white star or iron cross painted upon them! Bizarre that it took until the end of the war movie genre for realistic looking equipment to finally show up in them. Even though the Tiger was a rebuilt T-34, at least it looked like a Tiger.
@mikavirtanen70292 жыл бұрын
In all fairness Yugoslavia was the only place that could provide actual WW 2 equipment for filming those days. Almost everything outside of museums in Western countries was destroyed after the war, and if you wanted to make a movie you used miniatures and newer tanks. Battle of the Bulge and Patton used Spanish army and it's anachronistic equipment, because it was a great way to get extras and tanks in widescreen shots, and it just wasn't financially possible to transform battalion of tanks to look like their WW2 counterparts.
@peterandjunko2 жыл бұрын
@@mikavirtanen7029 One bit of accuracy in Patton is the use of 2 or 3 He111’s the Spanish had left over from that era during the air raid scenes.
@nickmitsialis2 жыл бұрын
@@peterandjunko and the REAL Irony is that Spain DID have authentic German kit (Pz IVs and Stgs from the war days) right up to 1965, when they got reequipped by the US equipment--JUST BEFORE they began filming 'Patton'. The German tanks ended up being sold to Syria and those got destroyed/captured by Israel when they took the Golan in 1967
@peterandjunko2 жыл бұрын
@@nickmitsialis wow- nice info there. Thanks! The North Africa ambush scene would have been great with Pz IVs and Stugs. I assume they would have been the long 75mm variant that was time appropriate for Tunisia campaign.
@zxbzxbzxb12 жыл бұрын
@@peterandjunko They supplied some of those and Me-109s for the Battle of Britain too. Thank goodness they stayed neutral :D
@SheldonAdama172 жыл бұрын
Drinker hitting me with those positive waves early in the morning!
@Awolfx2 жыл бұрын
So glad my Dad showed this to me when I was very young, he knows that i'm very big on WWII films and introduced this movie to me.
@shannonlopez22952 жыл бұрын
My family and I have a long standing tradition of quoting this movie. Oddball's "Oh man, don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning." is one of my personal favorite.
@oliverbenis2 жыл бұрын
This movie was filmed in the former Yugoslavia. Excellent movie.
@The_Crimson_Fucker2 жыл бұрын
I wasn't aware of that one.
@beardedbjorn55202 жыл бұрын
Yep. That’s why the snipe is using a Mosin. And the German tanks are dressed up T34s
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
@@beardedbjorn5520 Give the production crew credit for using the T34 mockups instead of U.S. Patton tanks or Walker Bulldogs.
@BillPeschel2 жыл бұрын
@@garfieldsmith332 That Tiger at the end looked like one, too, although I don't know if it was. No wonder the boy shat themselves when they saw it.
@patersor2 жыл бұрын
@@The_Crimson_Fucker iirc it was because they were about the only people who had a bunch of working Shermans in the 70s
@stxrobstar2 жыл бұрын
I like the small detail of the German officer having that facial scar from a sword duel. The SS viewed such scars as a sign of honor and bravery .
@PORRRIDGE_GUN2 жыл бұрын
More likely from a Russian shell splinter on der ostfront
@septimiusseverus3432 жыл бұрын
Fencing fraternities were very common in Europe during the 20s and 30s. Himmler, Heydrich and Kaltenbrunner had all been fencers at one time.
@timothyarnold16792 жыл бұрын
Reading the writings of German tankers from the era, they took great pride and made it a point of emphasis to ride "unbuttoned" as much as they could- they even credit the fact that they could make allied tankers close their hatches easily as one of the primary reasons the Germans performed so much better in tanks (per Otto Carius)... so many of their commanders had such facial scars (like Carius).
@stxrobstar2 жыл бұрын
@@timothyarnold1679 Also, German tanks didn't have nearly as many radios as the Allied tanks did.
@thomaskositzki94242 жыл бұрын
@@stxrobstar Nope. It was the exact other way around. Every German battle tank form the outset of the war had radio, that is one of the reasons why the stomped the French and the Russians so badly in the first years.
@ninjaspy6582 жыл бұрын
My parents really loved this movie. Seen it a hundred times. Reminds me of when movies use to be entertainment.
@Bullitt34012 жыл бұрын
No joke, this is my favorite war movie. Modern day Hollywood can't even come close to making something this good.
@ashleypenn78452 жыл бұрын
My dad LOVES this movie. He once considered buying this old Sherman tank our local scrapyard had in it and planned on loading it full of paintballs and a loudspeaker playing "All For the Love of Sunshine" and just roaming around some remote area blasting stuff.
@derekmcmanus86152 жыл бұрын
Your dad sounds cool
@chaptermasterpedrokantor16232 жыл бұрын
Your dad just won the internet for the day! And hell, All for the love of sunshine glaring aloud while people are dying and getting shut up makes that scene all the harder and surreal. Like real horrors of war.
@karlvongazenberg83982 жыл бұрын
I showed this masterpiece to my little cousins at their age of 10. :)
@Lodogg2 жыл бұрын
Does your dad also enjoy the classic James Garner flick, Tank?
@daveroche65222 жыл бұрын
Now THAT would have been 1,000% pure cool....
@CynicalOldDwarf2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love the editing on the German Tank Commander scene. The three heroes swaggering line-abreast towards the Tiger like a bunch of cowboys straight off Eastwood's spaghetti western, then the German TC pops out - blonde blue eyed, and more than a bit battle scared. Worn down and defeated but still proud he raises his arm in a salute to the Fuhrer, demonstrating his absolute loyalty to the Vaterland and his aristocratic ancestry. But then Kelly mentions the Gold and you see a brief glint in the Commander's eye... and camera jump cuts straight to the bank door blowing up!
@banzaibobA7V2 жыл бұрын
A truly beautifully crafted scene.
@markkringle91442 жыл бұрын
Classic. Ultimately it's all about the money!
@grahamdunn74282 жыл бұрын
It's the Good, the Bald and the Hippy.
@gw58592 жыл бұрын
1999's Three Kings made me appreciate this movie even more. It was definitely ahead of its time.
@eccentroworld34012 жыл бұрын
Drinker, you've blown my mind again! I first became a fan of yours after coming upon your "Where Eagles Dare" review. My dad was one of the producers of that movie and I thought "Who in the hell is reviewing, in 2021, an old war movie done back in 1968?" The Critical Drinker, that's who and then I started watching all your brilliant videos. I've only disagreed with your wonderful videos twice. Anyway, my dad also was one of the producers of "Kelly's Heroes" and I wish he was alive to see the two great reviews you gave of both movies. That would have made him very happy. He was friends with Clint and Telly and Burton. You, unfortunately in both reviews, failed to mention my Dad's best friend, Brian Hutton, who directed both movies. He was a great director. You're so right in that they don't make movies like they used to. Special FX and CGI will never be better than good writing.
@gpalmerify2 жыл бұрын
I didn't remember "Mr Warmth" was in this film. RIP Don Rickles.
@thatwasinteresting33192 жыл бұрын
I couldn't believe that the Drinker didn't give him a proper shout out
@Jambi142 жыл бұрын
Was thinking the exact same thing. Rickles wasn't in that many movies but this was sure one of his better roles.
@BillPeschel2 жыл бұрын
@@thatwasinteresting3319 I suspect Mr. Warmth didn't play as big a role in Scottish culture as he did in the U.S.
@fredgarv792 жыл бұрын
really? how could you not remember don rickles in this? of course he was in just about everything back then but he was a key part of this movie
@princebubby2 жыл бұрын
@@thatwasinteresting3319 And Carroll O'Connor.
@edsalisch43222 жыл бұрын
Don Rickles one of the greatest comedians of all time. Carol O'Connor, "We got the game on!"
@luciusvorenus94452 жыл бұрын
I met Mr. Rickles a couple years before he passed. I was working security in nearby Casino that he was performing at. I escorted him from his room to a steakhouse at the casino. He quipped and joked from the moment he opened the door until he returned to his room. An absolute gem of a man.
@patrickhamos29872 жыл бұрын
BRING ME MY UNIFORM!
@KJ-of6lf2 жыл бұрын
What kind of bomb? The kind that blows up! Cracks me up every time.
@archiescriven61782 жыл бұрын
get the ionosphere of the line
@michaelmerritt29902 жыл бұрын
Still my favorite Clint Eastwood movie. One of my favorite scenes of all time: "That's Paint!"
@tankmaker98072 жыл бұрын
I read an account of a WWII artillery gunner that told the story of his gun firing leaflet shells that they modified and filled with latrine waste along with the leaflets. One of my co-workers at the time said I had borrowed the idea from the movie. My reply, where do you think they got the idea from?
@thedeadd.c.2072 жыл бұрын
This was one of my favourite movies growing up. I still love it today as much as I did then.
@cyberdan422 жыл бұрын
An exceptional movie and ironically, for such a clearly fictional film, the equipment and combat scenes are among the most realistic I've seen in film. Great selection.
@militant-otaku97952 жыл бұрын
The fact that Clint Eastwood, who played an officer busted to enlisted, was wearing an officer's shirt, shows how much they concentrated on realism.
@codebasher12 жыл бұрын
Back then, to see German vehicles portrayed accurately was ground breaking. I was sick of seeing American tanks with swastikas' by this time and Kellies Heroes was glorious.
@Warszawski_Modernizm2 жыл бұрын
@@codebasher1 they shot the movie in Yugoslavia, where they had stocks on stocks of german stuff, the Yugo's kept producing it after the warr
@Guderian22 жыл бұрын
Hell even in some more modern movies the equipment is shit... just look at the wanna-be Tiger from Saving Private ryan... good god... what a fugly tank.
@chrispalmer98382 жыл бұрын
The Tiger tanks were Soviet T-34s modified to look the part. They got them pretty close...
@VoltanIgor2 жыл бұрын
Also the movie aged really well. Show it to a kid today, he is going to have the same blast watching it as we did back then in our childhood. At least I know I did :)
@koomo8012 жыл бұрын
So true! I saw this at a drive-in with my dad when it was first released, and now all these years later I've shown it to my oldest boys (ages 11 and 9...I started a family late) and it instantly became one of their favorites. And they know practically nothing about WWII or the '40s yet.
@chrissonofpear13842 жыл бұрын
I practically grew up on this film, and others. In the 1990s, at that.
@pierrelahaie63592 жыл бұрын
For 'younger people", the movie is too slow...But they still liked it.
@thomaskositzki94242 жыл бұрын
@@chrissonofpear1384 Same ^^
@abrahemsamander39672 жыл бұрын
koomo81. That’s so cool! I really want to go to a drive in theatre one day, heard they’re great. That’s awesome your boys like it! Lord knows kids need better material then the stuff they put out nowadays. Convinced me to watch the movie myself. Maybe if I like it I’ll save it for when I have sons and daughters, same with the dollars trilogy.
@moviefan25172 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Drinker! Kelly's Heroes is my favorite WWII movie. It has a very special place in my heart. Back when I was in junior high (when Jesus was a baby and before most people even owned a vcr) there were 2 movies that made the rounds on local late night TV after Johnny Carson. One was Zulu. The other was Kelly's Heroes. And all the guys at school watched it. We made sure we all knew it would be on that night, and we'd quote it endlessly the next day. Great memories
@paulbalogh45822 жыл бұрын
Saw this film, when a kid, with my family at a local drive in theater. What a riot. One of all time top 5 favorite films. Those were the days & my family then, for the most part, all liked each other. Parents are now gone & the gloves are off, sad.
@GingerPiston2 жыл бұрын
Love this film! Think my favourite Oddball line is "it's a mother beautiful bridge....and it's gonna be there". Fits into my top 3 war films along with Where Eagles Dare and Guns of Navarone.
@janetracer2 жыл бұрын
If you can dig out an old interview Donald Sutherland did with Bob Costas in the 80s where they talked about this classic. Turns out Donald had gotten sick and his brain swelled during filming and he almost died. But the swelling made him half crazy and emotional. Basically the performance of Oddball was just Donald at the time.
@charlietoole87072 жыл бұрын
'I'm not joking! This is my job!' - professor Jennings
@koenig35932 жыл бұрын
All those burning bridges.....Kelly's heroes is like an old friend, your mood is elevated at the very mention of their name.
@wallyguy262110 ай бұрын
This is still my favourite movie of all time. Such a great opening
@williamanderson31852 жыл бұрын
I saw this flick in the Drive-In theatre, still can taste the popcorn and REAL soda. My dad loved war movies, a Korean Vet with a Silver Star, and we never missed seeing one when it released.
@luluoren2 жыл бұрын
מדהימה! (:
@thewkovacs3162 жыл бұрын
my father is also a korean war vet and he hates war movies...but loves westerns
@NR-rv8rz2 жыл бұрын
That's a beautiful story mate. Sounds like an awesome childhood.
@obsidianjane44132 жыл бұрын
@@thewkovacs316 Experiences vary. I have not watched a war movie since getting back from Iraq.
@CliffMcAulay2 жыл бұрын
This was, as ever, a fair shakedown of this classic . Don't forget the brilliant theme music.' Burning Bridges' from the succinctly named 'Mike Curb congregation'. My big bro' bought the single. And that's all you need to know.
@derekmcmanus86152 жыл бұрын
I love that song
@TriggerCL2 жыл бұрын
The beginning and beat of that song is …🔥🔥
@aldosigmann4192 жыл бұрын
An unforgettable signature tune - the song and movie are for ever linked by it.
@cirian752 жыл бұрын
My mum had 'burning bridges' played as the last song at her funeral
@BigDaddy_MRI2 жыл бұрын
Yeah. The score was epic. Great music for a great film.
@Gearparadummies2 жыл бұрын
A long time ago I found myself in charge of the entertainment TV programming of a minuscule African country, armed with an VCR, six VHS tapes and a broadcasting antenna. I played "Kelly's Heroes" every Friday at 0800 PM for months on end. Nobody ever complained.
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman2 жыл бұрын
After watching several _"negative waves"_ video clips from this movie online, I order the DVD a year or two ago. I was NOT disappointed...👍👍
@Panzer4F22 жыл бұрын
A personal favourite, and you don't get to see Don Rickles lugging a thirty calibre machine-gun everyday. The Eagle Has Landed was also a very cool ride.
@larryh5022 жыл бұрын
"Give the .30 cal to the hustler, he wants to be a hero!"
@Panzer4F22 жыл бұрын
@@larryh502 Better give him a Snickers bar too. Loved that commercial with Joe Pesci.
@EC-gi5bw2 жыл бұрын
"Burning Bridges" is also a hell of an intro song.
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
In the original theatrical release the song was not used in the intro. The main tiles was an instrumental theme. The soundtrack was by Lalo Schifrin. With the success of the song the intro was switched to Burning Bridges for all future releases.
@ninjabearpress25742 жыл бұрын
Funny, that song's the one thing I don't like about this movie, but General Archie Bunker is priceless.
@Endtimescoming2 жыл бұрын
I thought sure Drinker would mention the song while he was going on about all the world war II movies with bridge in the title...but no...mums the word.
@JohnBrown-wk4io2 жыл бұрын
Kelly's Heroes & the Dirty Dozen, it has been too long since I spent a Saturday afternoon enjoying these movies.
@Brees19862 жыл бұрын
Discovered Kelly’s Heroes one Saturday afternoon back in 1988. I was working in a dog kennel, eating lunch, and watching on a tiny 10” tv….
@boomanchu22 жыл бұрын
Cool fact: Moriarty used his share of the gold to buy a cruise ship.
@joelellis70352 жыл бұрын
And became captain. This was after he defected to the Allies after serving in the Gestapo in and around Luftstalag 13.
@joelellis70352 жыл бұрын
There were some other "Heroes" running an espionage and sabotage operation in that Stalag
@ruthsaunders95072 жыл бұрын
They made him cover up his nudie tattoo after his tour on the pink submarine.
@marychocolatefairy2 жыл бұрын
@@ruthsaunders9507 lol, I've seen that film so many times and never realized that was him. Thanks!
@dlewis97602 жыл бұрын
Didn't he also write news stories for a TV station in Minneapolis?
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
Kelly's Heroes is a classic. A must see movie. The character Mulligan is played by George Savalas, the younger brother of Telly Savalas.
@louisduarte87632 жыл бұрын
I always wondered: is "Telly" short for something?
@mmyers64412 жыл бұрын
Is that the same guy who was with him in Kojak?
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
@@mmyers6441 Yes. His brother in real life; however he did not play his brother on the show. He was another detective.
@mmyers64412 жыл бұрын
@@garfieldsmith332 Great Thanks!
@garfieldsmith3322 жыл бұрын
@@louisduarte8763 His full name was Aristotelis Savalas. So Telly probably came from that. An easier name to market him with.
@TheDarthSoldier2 жыл бұрын
One of the alltime great films. And still holds up better than 99% of garbage Hollywood pumps out
@theoseibold86662 жыл бұрын
This movie is an amazing classic. I’ve so many great memories watching this with him.
@MrDeothor2 жыл бұрын
Guys, have you notied how those old movies had this crisp look to them? I can't put my finger on it, but overall it feels somewhat better than what we have right now.
@excellent_name2 жыл бұрын
All movies were filmed in HD, its the only camera tech we have really ever had for cinema. Projectors and many other devices didn't support the image quality that was present. In the 90s there used to be lots of old movies avail 'remastered' where they went back and tried to enhance stuff from the original reels. Orphan Annie, Mary Poppins, A Christmas Story, etc.
@mmyers64412 жыл бұрын
Depending on the source material, real film masters compare up to the range of 8k. When you had a bad dvd/blu its mostly because they used a cheaper theatrical copy of it. Or the master was not stored properly
@hanniffydinn60192 жыл бұрын
Film is better than digital cameras! Digital cameras in movies now end up very dark and almost black and white!
@mummifiedgamer2 жыл бұрын
It's modern directors obsession with filters and post processing effects. I think it is utterly horrible. Every movie has to be entirely brown or blueish, natural colors are banished from films.
@miner69er752 жыл бұрын
"Wood, woof, woof. That's my dog impression."
@militant-otaku97952 жыл бұрын
That's my "other" dog impression.
@nathantudor57632 жыл бұрын
You’re always making that same stupid awful joke
@nr74322 жыл бұрын
he just keeps pulling out all my favorites ....
@Slider7122 жыл бұрын
One of my absolute all time favorite movies. It's funny, smart, action packed, and had moments of sorrow. A true classic
@kennethfharkin2 жыл бұрын
This movie is one of the greats and could never be made today because there aren't any stunning and brave female leads.
@ericpode60952 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, they'll "reimagine" it with a crack squad of female G.I.s who will be redistributing the ill gotten gains of the patriarchy.
@rnettles62412 жыл бұрын
It's happening as we speak... Indiana Jones 5 !!!
@catsupchutney2 жыл бұрын
That was a great line, delivered perfectly: "I just drive them, I don't know what makes `em work."
@jeffreyskoritowski41142 жыл бұрын
I use that line on the mechanics whenever my truck breaks down. Pisses them off every time.
@TruckDrivinGamer2 жыл бұрын
Love this movie, but it's special for more than one reason: When I was in my mother's womb way back in 1972, she and my dad were at Stapleton Airport in Denver, Colorado to catch a flight when they happened upon Telly Savalas. They asked him for an autograph, and he signed their plane tickets and then he patted my mom's belly, wishing her a healthy, happy baby. That's right, I was blessed by the famous 'Kojak' himself!
@TheWriteFiction Жыл бұрын
This movie was so great and influential. Not only did it help propagate some of the myths of WWII for decades, but it also helped influence a lot of other foreign films and studios to do similar things. Japan's animated show Girls Und Panzer, one of my little guilty pleasure anime, takes a lot of inspiration from this film- particularly the Sherman Tank battle against the Tiger Tank in the village.
@JD_792 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite war films. And have to laugh that for being a satirical comedy it is still more realistic than many "serious" war films. And "Burning Bridges" was, in my opinion at least, a perfect song for the film.
@hellbach62682 жыл бұрын
Along with the magnificent seven, this movie was one of my youths treasures. Between the two, I probably watched them hundreds of times. All the badass actors playing in those kind of movies is getting me depressed about the state of film industry today. The scene where oddball is showing off his drunken unit to kelly is movie magic. "Sixty feet of bridge I can pick up almost anywhere" - oddball talking to seinfelds uncle leo of all people, hahaha.
@oldmandice27312 жыл бұрын
Saw this in the mid 70's on TV when it showed on the Sunday afternoon movie series. As a kid I was definitely enamored and I think it's one of the reasons I ended up joining the Army.
@vodkavecz2 жыл бұрын
Kelly's Heroes is probably my favourite WW2 movie ever. watched it sooo many times.
@jfb.87462 жыл бұрын
F YES, Drinker. I dont know how many times I enjoyed that movie when I was a kid. That and Dirty Dozen, another WW2 classic.
@visassess86072 жыл бұрын
By the way Oddball is what's called a "beatnik". It was an American subculture from the late 40s to mid 60s and was, as you described, basically a proto-hippie.
@DuaneThomas19632 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the "twenty years before hippies were even a thing" line obviously came from a guy unfamiliar with beatnik culture.
@golfnz34me2 жыл бұрын
@@DuaneThomas1963 Hippys burst onto the scene during Woodstock in 1968. Beatnkiks were mostly gone by this time.
@sgtbigballs6662 жыл бұрын
Ill assume the drinker knows Kerouac and Ginsberg, the real question is how did a "beatnik" end up in the military? haha
@chrisperrien70552 жыл бұрын
@@sgtbigballs666 The Draft
@sgtbigballs6662 жыл бұрын
Ooh good call, I was just being ironic, draft is more associated with Vietnam, but ill but that Although..any self respecting beatnik would have gone to Mexico haha
@pcarro112 жыл бұрын
I went to see this in the cinema with my little sister. I laughed so hard at the movie, she moved to another part of the theater. Love this movie.