Amen brother.

Myself, I'm drinking Bacardi and eating Frito Scoops dipped in Chicken Salad. REST IN PEACE Oddball!

I watched it on a flight to Minneapolis 11 days ago but will definitely be doing a reprise tonight. However, I caution: watch the comments. Some a these people got sensitive feelings.

Ditto!

Scoops and chicken salad sounds like a good ideas😏🥂

Odd ball was pure gold..

​@@anthonyvaccari4607 Best dog impressions I ever heard.

They weren't hippies. They were beatniks. I always figured Oddball and his crew started the trend. That's why the earliest beatniks wore french berets.

@@Chilliam13 That is actually one of the better fan theories I have heard. I like that idea.

The whole point was that Oddball & co. Were like the soldiers in Vietnam, which was in full swing at the time; the whole film is an anti-war oatody, about a bunch of soldiers who have had enough and want out, it's a sort of American Sven Hassell.

@@Chilliam13 they called em bohemians back then

He stole the movie from Eastwood. Great cast and a lot of fun.

Sutherland is priceless in this movie. This was a great cast. Also seems they got along and made a movie for entertainment and nothing else. I love this movie and cast.

This movie is based on a true story. A bunch of Americans did 'acquire' some gold bullion

As a Tanker (19K), I'll say Oddball is our ideal TC.

@@bogusmogus9551 Yeah.... Imagine nowadays a bunch of American "oddballs" fight against the WWII Germany true heirs: Iran and its supporting Islamist terrorist groups

@@lowkey1969 Moriarty is legend, too

A place without negative waves. A place where the fuel system doesn't leak in Tigers.

Don't forget him as in the Dirty Dozen as General Pinkley kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a5hlg7BlmNPWd2w.html

thnx for sharing this heartwarming story, Nicholas. It reminded me of my own dad and his jokes and lines. Be well and stay quirky with your kids.

Beautiful man beautiful

Lol, what a great story! * "Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?"

"woof woof!" "Don't try to be funny Oddball, waddya want?" "I'm kinda hung up....I need about 60 feet of bridge" " How am I supposed to get 60 feet of bridge ten miles beyond enemy lines....I need support...where am I gonna get 100 guys just like that?" (Turns and looks at the band practicing) "Hey "Now there it is Sir, 300 Kz's" ...."I've got it Booker!" ....."Sir, where do you want these?" (tray full of breakfast crumpets)...Get away! Don't you know we got the game on?"

Likely your Dad, aside from obviously having an unstoppable sense of humor, taught you to "lay off them 'negative waves'.

Set before the attempted break-out toward Antwerp?

Philip Schmidt & Paris too.. AAAAOOOOAAAAAOLLOLOOOOO

Thanks to Oddball not a single Tiger tank attacked New York. A True Iron Soldier!

Philip Schmidt 😆😆

No, they bombed pearl harbor john Belushi

Agree.

That's a great quote...

Isn't that one of Bill Mauldin's comics?

​@@jeffbosworth8116prolly..its not in " Up Front" but he had several other books and thousands of captions to go with pics..

I thought only one tank made it to town?

​@@nowthisnamestakenMakes it more badass. But yes, the other two were lost at the river.

Was 10 as well in 1970, when my friends and I saw it in a theatre in Saskabush-25¢ to get into the theatre… we'd sit through two matinée showings and then return the next weekend. If it wasn't for having to be home for dinner, we'd have stayed for the 3rd showing of the day. We were _free-range_ kids back then.

I was 10 in 1970 and saw this at the Ward theater in the Bronx

butcher bane my favorite line

I bet the fuel system doesn't leak all over the place though 😂

Tanks are cool untill you get fried in one an if I had to be in a tank in a conflict it might be an M1 that offers more protection than most but is so thirsty,needs huge logistical support and has a ridiculously low operational radius so take out the support(easier said than done) the M1 will quickly grind to a halt. Against Saddams Aged Soviet tanks the m1 was supreme with no losses as far as I know but go up against fex the massively upgraded German Leopard 2 which can also drive fully submerged in water and even fire its main gun submerged(just kidding)ur gonna start loosing M1`s.

quite a nice story. But i gues the driver might have gotten a little tired of it.

@@ethericboy There you go...sending out negative waves! Lol!

@@ethericboy tank crew loses are lower then infantry, even when you look at those aged russian tank's crews. the fact of the matter is there are dozens of ways that a tank uses to protect itself not open to infantry, and it can use 90% of the ways an infantryman can avoid death, and it has to deal with far less shit that can kill it. plus the mere presence of an enemy tank has been shown to put off the aim of enemy troops. combine that with the fact most tanks that go up, don't kill the crew and its a lot more appealing then being poor bloody infantry. artillery corps is the best tho.

"Never go Full Retard!" you can't come back. tropic thunder just before Hollywood went Full Retard PC.

Quite the Milo Minderbender type from Catch 22

Bellamy is actor Len Lesser who played Uncle Leo from Seinfeld and actually served in WWII

I say that to myself all the time.

My favorite line is "To you, a hero is some kind of weird sandwich."

I had a truck driver that worked in the same company as I did. HE LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE THE GERMAN COMMANDER, I swear!

Had a great theme too. All those burning bridges, yo.

Not in Poland. Since years we love that movie!

Yes and mash and mash was the other one

A true classic

lol

“Months of boredom punctuated by moments of extreme terror."

I'm ex armor recce.. can confirm. Hot coffee anywhere in the world. The thing to do was dump half a cup of steaming coffee off the side while you drove by the infantry... used to give em an anurism lol (Always had a fresh pot on)

Alex Foster Why waste good coffee on the infantry? Standing in the hatch they can see the coffee mug in your hand.... blow the bilge tanks at em and wave.....

@@yomama69s Surprised the infantry didnt let enemy sneak thru and fire atgm at you. ;-)

He was also an admitted communist

@@petemitchell4652 and ? has nothing to do with his acting..

Also saying "Oddball" to a group of fans of a certain 2012 Japanese anime will give them a big smile on their faces.

@@wilco300674 I don’t idolize or celebrate people who support murderous actions

@@petemitchell4652 again, has nothing to do with his acting. But if you don't support, fine.. don't support the US and all it's actors, as the biggest murderers are not communists, but the USA and the UK!

What's the name?

Good period pieces usually do.

@chris younts The Shermans where real but the Tigers where modified T-54s. Still look good though. Love this movie!

@chris younts It was made in Yugoslavia, least communist country of the bunch

theallseeingmaster Amen! 😃

Yup. Whenever I have to do something risky or uncertain when troubleshooting or fixing somebody's computer I will sometimes mumble "beautiful bridge, beautiful bridge, big beautiful bridge" to myself. Doesn't always work out but I figure, like Oddball, some positive waves can't hurt when you're up against the wall. XD

Positive Waves Man!!!

I was enamored with the "we like to feel we can get out of trouble, quicker than we got into it." to me thats just smart!

The Battle of Lon G'island.

...and Sutherland says "New York" like a New Yorker. Not bad for a Canadian who studied acting in the UK!

So true. Excellent scene. One of my favorite movies of all time. I've seen it so many times yet when it's on tv I can't not watch it. You know what I mean you've been there. "Now that's the kind of fighting spirit I'm talking about they even have the grave diggers involved."

Nice quote, gonna have to look up that scene.

I think that Oddball probably formed a biker gang when he got home.

😃😃😃😃😃thats what i love about kellys Heroes these Memorable Quotes 😄😂😄😂😄😂

Epic Dialogue

@kevinduffin2771 It would have been a hoot working with you. Unfortunately my Commander is easily flustered in a crisis situation. “Hurricane, mass casualty incident, the Chief is pissed off” “Dude, how long have you been a cop?” I’m a VERY salty Marine and cop. 😁

never realized that thank you for sharing

Wasnt most of knipsels biography bull?

@@tomaspabon2484 - Probably. You basically have one guy saying one thing, and another guy saying another thing, then thousands of people quoting one of those guys as if they had all the facts. You might try running it past a "fact checker" - then you'll know the story they claim is false is the truth.

@@tomaspabon2484 It was. Almost all of the information about Knispel's WW2 exploits came from one source - a book by Franz Kurowski, a writer infamous for his revisionist and largely-bullshit books about German "aces" of WW2. A Nazi apologist, he essentially only reported the positive facts, left out all the negative stuff, and filled any gaps with fanciful stories he completely fabricated himself. In reality, all that's known about Knispel's heroics is that he was on the lists of German Cross in Gold recipients, he commanded a Tiger I, and he's the subject of a famous picture of a tanker sporting a beard and a messy haircut. That's it. People bought into the Knispel myth (despite the fact that Kurowski's other books about higher-profile aces were already known to be semi-fictional) because it sounded good: Germany's highest-scoring tank commander was ostensibly a Czech conscript who hated authority, beat up an officer for abusing Soviet POWs, was a cheery friend to everyone, etc. Everyone desperately WANTED it to be true, and nobody bothered chasing up the sources on his Wikipedia page until recently. Naturally, a just a little bit of digging demonstrated that most of Knispel's Wikipedia page (and the book it drew from) was fabricated. Notably, even one of Knispel's superior officers who was quoted repeatedly in the book furiously spoke out saying it was nonsense, and that Kurowski made up the quotes in the first place. www.portal-militaergeschichte.de/toeppel_kurowski www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the German Lebensreform movement emphasized the goodness of nature; the harms to society, people, and nature caused by industrialization. Just weren't called Hippies. By some accounts it can be traced to counter culture of some Ancient Greek Philosophers

@@JohnLaudun no shit? My point was exactly what I said. 🙄

@@JohnLaudun The movie was set in ww2 about 20 years earlier.....!

Donald Sutherland's greatest role was creating Kiefer Sutherland! I agree this is a very entertaining movie and Oddball adds a lot.

@@JohnLaudun It took place in the 1940's, so the "hippie" character was out of place.

@@howie9751 no oddball was right in place, cool surf dudes are in every war.

amen. this is such a great cast!

Absolutely! Great cast, Telly Savalas as Big Joe, Don Rickles, Carol Oconnor, just over the top fantastic!

Agreed

No such actors, no such movies.

Every time I'm occupied with something interesting and someone tries to interrupt me I'm reminded of Carol O'Connor as the general in the scene of when he is trying to listen to the action taking place on the radio and yells at all the people present making noise and the officer trying to ask him a question "Get the hell out of here, We got the game On" !

"Kid, you gotta pull yourself together. You ain't in the middle of Central Park!" Crap Game to Oddball, c.1944.

And he says the line like, DUH? What do you think I'm doin.

Woof woof woof!!! That's my other dog. Hilarious!!!

Oddbal????? hes a freak hes a nut ha ha ha

😄😄😄😄😄😄

"An air of aristocratic psychosis" , nicely put and totally agree!

"Aristocratic psychosis" is the most amazing and perfect way of putting it that I've ever heard. I almost want to run out and form a band, just so I can call it that...

@@stickiedmin6508 I thought about Doc Holiday in tombstone. Aloof yet polite. Then deadly.

@@animalanimal7939 good point! Doc Holiday helping out Wyatt Earp because... "he's my friend." Other guy: "Hell, I got many friends!" Doc: "...I don't."

He doesn't care for vibes bro, only waves

Hi Todd say to your Dad and tell him thanks.

Thank him for his service and may he live longer . Texas .

He surely smiled because as a WW2 veteran, he saw how absurd it was. Its a rotten movie, the worst war movie of all time IMHO. I hated it and still do.

@@minerran You never know. Either way, it's clearly meant to be absurd. Take that stick out, would ya?

@@minerran Crawl back under your rock now !!

I use this line all the time around negative people and they don't get it.

Tzipora Bronson It ain’t my fault oddball.

I had nothing but positive thoughts, but this tank is a piece of shit. It leaks radiator fluid all over the place, it's a piece of shit.

Ramon Rodriguez I remember Moriority stating, "Its a pice of Junk.". "The fuel systems leaks all over the place. Its a piece of junk,". It was filmed in the 60's and released in the seventies. we were spared of todays hollywoods language.

@@ivangranger8494 Was the version you saw on TV? May very well have had the sweary words dubbed out. People swore and cursed just as much back then, *_especially_* in the military. It's not 'Hollywood's language' - it's just language.

This movie gives me the mindset that no matter how hopeless it is, there is hope if you just let go of those negative waves.

The Dirty Dozen!

Guns of Navarone also had a Boob scene which as a 12-13yr old was SOOOO much better than National Geographics or Fredericks of Hollywood, Sears Catalog, etc...No young guys, we had to work to get our eye's satisfied!!!

@@brandonclark435 Absolutely! It belongs with these other gems, too. Actually, it's my favorite of the genre. Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, John Cassavettes, George Kennedy, et al. Talk about a sterling cast.

Add The Enemy Below to that list. As long as it wasn't a school night, my dad and I would set an alarm to get up at xAM to watch it on the late night movie.

Heh!

over the top

Right On.

Last THIRTY years..Robert at 68.

I like the ending where they keep their promise and give the German tank commander his share of the gold and everybody's happy. Then he sells his tank to Oddball 😆

Would you knock it off already with them negative waves ? Not overlooked nor underrated. Was regularly shown on TV .

16 Million.

Yes - a great movie, but a classic where the No.2 billed actor totally and utterly steals the show from the No.1!

Agreed

George Michael had Faith, didn't him much good in the end.

@@CB-xr1eg he got a new tank didn't he?

@@sgtpaloogoo2811 Did he?

@@CB-xr1eg well, the fuel line leaked all over the place.

Now this is just a regular 76 mm gun, but we put this pipe on it and Germans think maybe we got a 90mm.

same here its one great movie!!

This movie is what you call a cheese fest. It's so corny and seems soo dumb. But it's one of the best damned movies period. No matter how many times you watch it it's just as funny.

I love Caroll Oconner's role in this movie. He is one of them that makes it. Wow what a cast.

Absolutely same here.

Now I'm gonna have to watch it, one of my favorite movies, do I have a DVD of it?

fuckin love telly, he is legend

@@softturd Telly had played a hard-boiled tank sergeant, Guffy, in the 1965 movie, "The Battle of Bulge", who is very, er...ENTREPENURIAL, and has a Belgian village girl, Louise (Pier Angeli) as his business partner. When the German attack is on, and Guffy and his surviving assistant driver, a young kid, bailed from their tank being rammed and knocked on its side (their crewmates got machine-gunned as they bailed) and made their way back to the rear, Guffy meets up with her to tell her to sell their remaining merchandise, as the Germans are on their way to take the town of Ambleve, and obviously they'll confiscate their stock, and probably shoot her as a profiteer. Guffy admonishes her for the condition of their chickens ("ya know what fresh eggs bring these days?"), and when he hands her the share of what he's sold, he hands him a rather impressive wad of cash. Guffy is shocked, and at first won't accept it, as, without her having sold a commensurate amount of stock, he fears she's been whoring herself out to make ends meet. Louise understands why Guffy is reluctant, and, although she's a bit offended, explains that "when a woman goes into business with a man, it's 'forever' ", confessing her love for him. Guffy is perplexed, as he'd never pressured her for sex, but Louise explains that's why...she feels he respects her. Realizing that he's been in love likewise with Louise all along, he hands her all his money, explaining, "hey, you get shot, and before they get the plasma in ya, some guy is running his hands through your pockets", meaning he believes the medics or fellow soldiers will steal from a stricken man. Louise begs Guffy to kiss her and he does as he has to rejoin his unit. Later, when he's back at division HQ to be assigned to an improvised tank unit (to mount a last-ditch stand before the German Tiger brigade crosses the Meuse river), after the battle in which Ambleve was taken by Col. Hessler's armored brigade, Guffy asks a officer about news of the town. When told there was "nothing left of it", he's crestfallen, and tearfully turns to General Grey (Robert Ryan) and asks, "When they gonna let us fight?". Not necessarily being gung-ho, just wanting to avenge the woman he loved.

@@selfdo I remember his tank was named "bargain basement" He was also outstanding in the dirty dozen playing "maggot"

working on an army base at the time of this films release...had a lot of fun matching up the characters to members of our staff...[I got to be "kelly]

Yeah, complete with Jerry Seinfeld's uncle Leo. lol

He was no hero, movies stars do not deserve hero status. /Real soldiers deserve that spot.

@@salvadormartinez2852 Talking about the movie you wanker, it's just that, it's a movie and a great one, read what I said not what you think I said

@DashaB0553 This Movie and the Dirty Dozen with Lee Marvin. Both are Excellent Movies in my Humble opinion .

@@richardclark1077 Totally agree along with Lee Marvin in Paint Your Wagon

Theres always one pillock who doesn't read the comment properly and leaves something ridiculous. KZfaq is full of them . So annoying 🤬

And quoting it wrongly. Negative waves, not negative vibes...

+Dominique Hardie They better knock it off with them negative waves.

+Trans ExFeminist Autism Why don't they dig how beautiful it is here?Why can't they post something righteous and hopeful for a change?

+oldrocker74 crap!

+oldrocker74 They're definitely anti-social types. Woof Woof

+Trans ExFeminist Autism That's my other dog impression.

Haha didn't notice that till you pointed it out, nice catch.

Taras Shevchenko Makes me wonder if that "wow" was scripted or if Donald Sutherland was genuinely impressed by the fired paint job done to the tank. I heard a lot of stuff he said in this classic was either unscripted or he changed some of the words around on the fly.

Guys who didn't need to be catered to by use of their preferred pronouns and knew which restrooms to use? They'd never make it in today's Army - at least not until after the Pentagon was destroyed.

villiers man - He was superb in "Eye of the Needle" where he plays a German spy living incognito in England in WW2.

I'm trying to think of some other great under rated or little known movies. Try Gene Wilder and Don Sutherland in "start the revolution without me", I think it is called, I have the DVD over there somewhere. Also "the great train robbery" with Sean Connery and Leslie Anne Down. She was beautiful.

Oh yeah man ...Odd Ball is my favorite

Sandy Marketich ...such as 'I been working Om the Railroad'!

Put on psy war op. Make it loud

During field training we did someting similar, we trolled the company arias in a jeep and played Bad Moon Rising real loud. the OP guys stood up like meer kats.

Always audacity (even in a covering defensive action, if needed.) Bring it or don't show up. It turns out the classic image of a cavalry charge crashing into a shield wall hardly ever works out. Usually the wall decided the collumn isn't going to stop, and yields, or the column decides the wall isn't going to break, and veers off. Each man makes his own decision about whether it's in his best interests to let everyone else occupy the enemy, while he exercises "the better part of valor".

Well, he would get a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in "M*A*S*H" in '70 and again for "Ordinary People" in '81. And turned a great performance in a non-comic role in "Klute" (1971)

Ordinary People. Wow. Stunning acting all around.

And he played an Absolute Bustard in "Eye of the Needle." Great actor, with a tremendous range.

Don't forget MASH with Sutherland as Hawkeye. Another war comedy classic.

Odball The original Jeffrey Lebowsky

Catching some rays....(he’s the original Spicoli.

For sure! And what a cast,yeah?

OMG I never noticed that part 😂😂

lol the reaction time of his crew was epic

There you go again with them negative waves!! It´s not paint! It´s a... a psy-ops demoralizing shell!! It makes pretty pictures.

I certainly didn't expect to see the Spanish Inquisition here, but then again nobody ever does

lmfao paintball then a 75mm Explosive

Is that your dog imitation, or your other dog imitation?