You could say the same thing of Free Guy (thank GOD!!!!) There is hope in the air).

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. 🤐

@@mmyers6441 "The Message"

Awesome I love it AdeptMumbles Oddball was a National Treasure before his time

I still use the "negative waves" line where appropriate.

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.

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.

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

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.

exactly - just the cast alone would make "oh hun we gotta see this" be a frequent statement

"LOOT WHAT?!? THERE'S NOTHING HERE TO LOOT!!!"-- Big Joe

@@Cliff_Dixon_42 theres no booze ,theres no broads ,theres no action!!

@@thisandthat1701 Well I tell you what! We're gonna get some booze!

GREAT call! "Broadsword calling Danny boy"

@@ScienceChap Just in case... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ariCnZR6saqlmH0.html

@@gibby237 Lol. Drinker's so on top of it, he did it half a year ago.

Also pretty decent

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.

Tatiana... 👍🤣

Thank you for stating the obvious.

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.

Patton himself pretty much said the same thing. He knew how to use armor, but he didn't know anything about the tanks.

Women?

"Why are you always sending out them negative waves, man?" "To a New Yorker like you a hero is some kinda weird sandwich!"

Yep! There was a sweet Image on the net, where he had little Kiefer Sutherland on his shoulders. Cant find it anymore

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."

@@ninjabearpress2574 Space Cowboys is epic fun.

Here - have some wine to drink and cheese to eat.

Stars on his dressing gown!

"Shut up Booker, can't you see we got the game on here!!!"

and don rickles rickles was really a great actor

At times, I couldn't help but think that those references would be something Archie would say.

OMG he was so funny! I love the end when he's being driven through the celebration and he thinks its for him!

A DEAL, deal! Maybe the guy's a Republican. "Business is business," right?

"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?!?"

@@Cliff_Dixon_42 🤣🤣🤣 one of my favorite scenes in almost any movie. Rickles delivery of those lines is pure Hollywood gold.

A great role for Rickles.

@@Cliff_Dixon_42 dammit somebody already got this one! Absolutely kills me every time I hear it

Hopefully, it will never be re-made by the current crop of scumbags.

Any bridge blowing up is better than "The Message".

Try "Where Eagles Dare"

@@johnwolf2829 yea , im certain Kelly would be the first name of a chick in that one

The music used as well

Christmas? I gotta hear the explanation for this one........

Actually my top 5

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.

woof woof !

Nice.

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.

Cheers to her, rest in peace. All those burning bridges that I...

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

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.

Just a living legend in my book.

Cry Macho, it's out. (But I haven't seen it yet.)

Cry Macho is appalling unfortunately. Time for Clint to finally hang it up and retire I think.

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.

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.

rad!

Good for you ,Sir..

God bless yall!!!!!

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!

Congrats! you have 2 years on me & my better/smarter half. Did you see it in a "review" movie house?

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

@@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.

@@michaeljames4904 _”Patently_ a pisstake on _Patton.”_ I think I see what you did there. 😉

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.

@@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.

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.

@@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.

@@TitusCastiglione1503 That was a very nice touch. Love me some camo zelts.

@@obviouspseudonym9345 not depicted enough, IMHO. Especially considering how common they seem to have been.

@@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.

They are holding themselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris… or maybe even New York.

Kurt Knispel has entered the chat (ok, he was more of a beatnik in temperament).

@@septimiusseverus343 a 'beat', yeah sure...I was surprised how much Knispel looked like Oddball.

I'm guessing he turned into a hippy after various... "exploits"... in the deserts of the North African campaign...

I would not be surprised if Jeff Bridges based his portrayal of The Dude on Oddball.

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?

Big Joe is also always in need of some “action”. I also love the scene where they convince him to join the heist.

"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.

Joe, I think I got the crabs.....

And Savalas played a serious tank sergeant in Battle of the Bulge, in '65. Really some great changeups in Kelly's Heroes.

He was good in The Dirty Dozen too.

"The only way I have to keep those tigers busy is to let them shoot holes in me!"

@@KyleAxington crap! 😁

"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.

Big Joe's reaction when he first learns of the tigers is amazing.

@@daveomania_ He knows what they can do.

I wasn't aware of that one.

Yep. That’s why the snipe is using a Mosin. And the German tanks are dressed up T34s

@@beardedbjorn5520 Give the production crew credit for using the T34 mockups instead of U.S. Patton tanks or Walker Bulldogs.

@@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.

@@The_Crimson_Fucker iirc it was because they were about the only people who had a bunch of working Shermans in the 70s

Every time I watch it I don't want it to end.

This and Blues Brothers are my favourite films.

Facts.

So true! Jesus Christ the dude was 56 years old when he played the hard-ass gunny in heartbreak ridge.

Yeah, but look at all he's left us. MeTV has Rawhide, check your local listings, but gawd Eastwood looks so damn young.

True, but he gave (and is still giving) so much. That's the best any of us can do.

I'm dreading that day. He's my all time favorite actor. I grew up on Dirty Harry and the man with no name.

Your dad sounds cool

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.

I showed this masterpiece to my little cousins at their age of 10. :)

Does your dad also enjoy the classic James Garner flick, Tank?

Now THAT would have been 1,000% pure cool....

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.

@@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.

@@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

@@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.

@@peterandjunko They supplied some of those and Me-109s for the Battle of Britain too. Thank goodness they stayed neutral :D

Wasn't that (a much younger) Uncle Leo from Seinfeld?

@@adrianmizen5070 I never watched Seinfeld so I do not know. However interest will have me look it up.

@@adrianmizen5070 Did a check. Len Lesser was his name. Played in 14 episodes of Seinfeld and 9 in Everybody loves Raymond.

Don’t forget the radio traffic about the grave registration unit

Yes, it's Len Lesser.

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.

I practically grew up on this film, and others. In the 1990s, at that.

For 'younger people", the movie is too slow...But they still liked it.

@@chrissonofpear1384 Same ^^

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.

I couldn't believe that the Drinker didn't give him a proper shout out

Was thinking the exact same thing. Rickles wasn't in that many movies but this was sure one of his better roles.

@@thatwasinteresting3319 I suspect Mr. Warmth didn't play as big a role in Scottish culture as he did in the U.S.

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

@@thatwasinteresting3319 And Carroll O'Connor.

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.

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.

@@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

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.

The Tiger tanks were Soviet T-34s modified to look the part. They got them pretty close...

More likely from a Russian shell splinter on der ostfront

Fencing fraternities were very common in Europe during the 20s and 30s. Himmler, Heydrich and Kaltenbrunner had all been fencers at one time.

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).

@@timothyarnold1679 Also, German tanks didn't have nearly as many radios as the Allied tanks did.

@@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.

מדהימה! (:

my father is also a korean war vet and he hates war movies...but loves westerns

That's a beautiful story mate. Sounds like an awesome childhood.

@@thewkovacs316 Experiences vary. I have not watched a war movie since getting back from Iraq.

A truly beautifully crafted scene.

Classic. Ultimately it's all about the money!

It's the Good, the Bald and the Hippy.

I love that song

The beginning and beat of that song is …🔥🔥

An unforgettable signature tune - the song and movie are for ever linked by it.

My mum had 'burning bridges' played as the last song at her funeral

Yeah. The score was epic. Great music for a great film.

An all time timeless classic.

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.

BRING ME MY UNIFORM!

What kind of bomb? The kind that blows up! Cracks me up every time.

get the ionosphere of the line

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!”

The scene where the general realizes somebody ¨lost¨ his air reconnoissance pics...

“They’ve even got the god damn grave diggers in there!”

they were home, making sammiches, like good women

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!!

On the home front making guns, tanks and planes.

In the case of my late Mum, working in a factory doing all the admin whilst my late Dad made Lancaster bombers!

Do not give the woke mob any ideas. Kerry's Heroes staring Kerry Washington.

I always wondered: is "Telly" short for something?

Is that the same guy who was with him in Kojak?

@@mmyers6441 Yes. His brother in real life; however he did not play his brother on the show. He was another detective.

@@garfieldsmith332 Great Thanks!

@@louisduarte8763 His full name was Aristotelis Savalas. So Telly probably came from that. An easier name to market him with.

"Give the .30 cal to the hustler, he wants to be a hero!"

@@larryh502 Better give him a Snickers bar too. Loved that commercial with Joe Pesci.

A Bridge Too Far is also a masterpiece

@@GeraltofRivia22 I was just about to say the same thing.

Bridge over the River kwai has got to be in there also

@slaine's axe Excellent film.

And "The Enemy Below" Curd Jurgens vs. Robert Mitchum. 2nd best Submarine Movie ever made.

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.

Funny, that song's the one thing I don't like about this movie, but General Archie Bunker is priceless.

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.

'I'm not joking! This is my job!' - professor Jennings

Yeah, mine too!

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.

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

Film is better than digital cameras! Digital cameras in movies now end up very dark and almost black and white!

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.

I use that line on the mechanics whenever my truck breaks down. Pisses them off every time.

Yeah, so do I.

You made my eyes wet

Now we'd have to have the Kelly's Universe or something worse.

Also we'll never see something like these super cast ensembles.

Kelly would be a woman of color, Big Joe (and Little Joe) would be gay, Oddball would be a straight, white male conservative.

That's my "other" dog impression.

You’re always making that same stupid awful joke

I bought a TCM WWII movie boxset a bunch of years ago that was Kelly's Heroes, Where Eagles Dare, the Dirty Dozen, and Battleground. Absolutely superb.