Kelly's Heroes 001

Opening Credits

[@mattmenefee3889]

The theme song somehow works perfectly for not only this scene but this movie in general. Probably my favorite WW2 movie, particularly given it’s loosely based on a true story.

[@jenpeterson3712]

I'd say mine, too❤❤

[@northwestprof60]

Nobody loves this song more than I--but the song, music, tone, and lyrics have absolutely NOTHING to do with this movie or the attitude it has. I strongly suspect that the movie's decision makers were as high as kites when they picked the song to open the movie. The strong comedic irreverence by the characters Eastwood, Savalas, Rickles, and especially Sutherland are 180 degrees from than the wistful and sad nostalgia evoked by the song. So no, it doesn't "work" at all, but the song is still wonderful even if it's a head-scratcher for this movie.

[@josephwolfe8771]

Happy 50th Kelly's Heroes ! Greatest War Movie Ever - screw the war -lets go rob a bank thirty miles behind German lines !

[@SK-qc6fb]

The BEST opening of any WW2 movie! One of my favs!

[@mawilkinson1957]

The next scene is one of my favorites. "Oh you can't hear me. The reason you can't hear me is because you're firing your morters at you're end, and they're landing here at our end... "

[@wrongway1100]

"I dont know where the Germans are. No the Germans arent here. WE'RE HERE!" Little Joe: "Hey Big Joe. Molligan says he's sorry."

[@oakroyal]

“Sorry Son of A Bitch”

[@strikerdelta]

@@wrongway1100 Sorry sonouvabitch...

[@paulrogers6274]

Big joe!!!

[@lemmdus2119]

@@wrongway1100 Now lift your GD barrage!

[@66desdichado]

This "hiding in plain sight" move is just crazy enough to work. All the troops would be too cold, wet, and focused on their own misery to look too closely.

[@mikemiller8975]

Love beginning lol fav movie 😅

[@rogertrooman7918]

Exactly

[@stevekaczynski3793]

In a real-life situation it would probably be even darker than here.

[@hanswolfgangmercer]

Besides, the German military was using so much captured equipment to fill the gaps that it wouldn't be that unbelievable to see a willy's in a german camp.

[@douglasdaniel4504]

@@stevekaczynski3793 Probably so dark you couldn't have filmed it, so, yeah. For one thing, in real life they would have made an effort to put out all those fires, as they would attract attention.

[@noel5826]

Hello From South Africa 🇿🇦 Just what the world needs right now, a sense of humor.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Well said.

[@retro_morgan9208]

This scene always brings a smile too my face

[@tlbfarm4473]

At 2:45: mud puddle ruining a bunch of German dinners! LOL!!!!1

[@sfk1066]

I always love how calm the three of them look while driving with all those German soldiers, especially the German colonel and the guy sitting behind him. 🙂

[@abfabuli69]

My dad loved this movie

[@SmartCookie2022]

Great movie, great soundtrack. Trivia: the writer Troy Kennedy Martin was the same guy who wrote British TV show "Z-Cars" as well as the original "Italian Job" movie with Michael Caine.

[@evanmcclellan7267]

My dad had this movie on DVD. I tried watching it one afternoon and couldn't get past this first scene. I also couldn't stop watching this first scene. At first it was disbelief. But then I fell in love with this scene. I have no idea what the rest of the movie is about.

[@LuckyPunkProd]

A year late, I know, but hopefully you know at this point that it's about a ragtag platoon led by Kelly that goes behind enemy lines to rob a bank full of Nazi gold bars, thus pulling off one of the biggest heists in history.

[@hawlikd]

Splashing the Germans standing in the chow line! Classic!

[@ahha6304]

The best part is no one even recognise that it's US Jeep, not Kübelwagen

[@kaletovhangar]

Well,he is right in the midst of german army,so they would probably think that it was recently captured so no time to paint the iron cross on it.Uniform though bothers me.Only thing that comes to my mind is that the Germans are dead tired and just few seconds before they started passing by.

[@Johnny96ri]

The Germans pressed any vehicle available into service...they loved jeeps.

[@bensisko4651]

It's such an insane gutsy thing to do, everybody just assumed it was a captured vehicle.

[@bensisko4651]

They were using French, Czech, even Russian equipment at this point. They were running out of everything. Savalas's character mentions that this is post D-day.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

@@Johnny96ri They had captured enough of them that they used a number in their infiltration plans at the Battle of the Bulge.

[@bobman36]

This gives me crazy positive waves man

[@jonathanfunnell4167]

LOVE CLINT EASTWOOD WITH ALL MY HEART AND ALWAYS WILL

[@blockmasterscott]

I always felt sorry for the guys getting drenched while getting their chow LOL!

[@bensisko4651]

The perfect opening (and song) to this movie!

[@ericsellers7783]

My Favorite “War Movie” Of All Time...Love This One!

[@rustillthere.5024]

No matter what decade you are in if you are near the edge of the side walk some a-hole will hit a puddle.

[@lyndadavis2228]

Always with the negative waves Moriarty lol

[@barbaraannecortina7899]

I must have been six going on seven when I first saw this back in 1978 but I didn't take much notice of it. Nine years later, however, in December 1987 I remember seeing the film again only a lot fucking more of it, only saw a bit of it a few years later in 1991, the scene where the commander of the Tiger is asked to swing his turret round so that Kelly and his gang could blast the doors open but it was about 15 years ago when I saw the film in its entirety and I was so impressed that I bought the video! If you're never seen it, then you don't know what you're fucking missing! It is just one of the best war films ever fucking made! Mind you, after a few times, it gets a bit samey. Not long after I bought this film I also bought Raid On Rommel which has 1971 written all over it. It's good but it lacks authenticity because the German tanks are just M60 Pattons with balkenkreuzen (the black crosses used on all German vehicles and aircraft) on the fucking turrets and, as for the German half-tracks, they're not fucking German at all!

[@walkerlyons3148]

Eastwood at his coolest

[@ericscottstevens]

Germans did use captured jeeps, it would not be uncommon for one to be sitting in a traffic jam. Wearing the M1 helmet was not the best idea. However more Jeeps were captured in Operation Market Garden in September.

[@33Luger]

And starving German soldiers would try to sneak into chow lines...and vice versa.

[@TheDirtyvermonter]

I was just thinking about this scene. It fits the whole mood so well, and it shows how much of a badass kellys character is. Think about it. He had to sneak across a heavily occupied German town by himself, without getting caught, quietly kidnap a colonal, and then decided to drive an enemy vehicle through their lines into his own, all the the while taking incoming artillery from their own guns. And seeming to not give a f*ck. Bad-ass 😆

[@bodieofci5418]

I'm eating cheese and drinking wine man.

[@helkhugan9625]

Same here

[@jswin2084]

I’m flying through the rain now at night in my car deep in the east bay, dodging homeless and crack heads, playing this full blast. Feeling like Clint in his jeep smacking nazi fodder around. Good times. Good people

[@dariusvilla5680]

If your car was an actual Jeep Wrangler or a CJ, any of those civilian decedent's of the WWII Jeep it would make A lot more sense.

[@dariusvilla5680]

If I buy a Jeep Wrangler, preferably an auto TJ, I would play this nonstop on a dark rainy day through woods and slum.

[@theoutlander9564]

I have a 1978 navy jeep and every time I drive it in the rain I hear this opening tune playing in my head.

[@jerrygundecker743]

It's a great scene. But the 6-volt batteries in those Jeeps were notoriously unreliable. To sit idling in a town full of Germans would have made a burglar cry. You'd be the gutsiest GI in the whole of the war.

[@azidewurst2]

It´s baffling that Hollywood did not yet bother to put out a remake of this movie.

[@elchoya8770]

thank god!

[@THEBEARDEDTOOLGUY]

If they did it would $$$$$$$$$$$ with an All STAR Cast and CGI

[@66desdichado]

They tried when they made "Three Kings."

[@cynicstelios4240]

You do not remake masterpieces

[@eliaspeter7689]

@@cynicstelios4240 Highly agree!

[@VaryagTV]

Poor krauts didn't even get their food without someone picking on them

[@tarkancerci2567]

Ha! Damn Right! 😂

[@JakeSmith-st6vp]

Rest In Peace Donald Sutherland

[@Davem69]

The days when a young lad had male role models and heroes

[@redneckbillyable6389]

I love this movie

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

Everyone shits on the infantry...even the enemy.

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

02:50

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Definitely one of the great movie openings.

[@mandytiffany4585]

Just Great 💗

[@UnderMediterranean]

Questa scena è fantastica!

[@MarcoFranceschini1971]

Concordo...lo sto ri-ri-rivedendo proprio ora...Clint, Telly, Donald e tutto il cast eccezionali !!!!!

[@rogertemple7313]

Kelly's Heroes. Action/Adventure/Drama/Comedy/Historical War. Cast: Clint Eastwood:B.1930,San Francisco,Calif.; Telly Savalas:B.1922,Garden City,Long Island,N.Y.:D.1994,Universal City,Calif.; Don Rickles:B.1926,N.Y.C.,N.Y.:D.2017,L.A.,Calif.; Donald Sutherland:B.1935,St.John,N.B.,Can.; And: Carroll O'Connor:B.1924,Manhattan,N.Y.C.,N.Y.:D.2001,Culver City,N.Y.C.,N.Y.; Co-Starring: Gavin MacLeod:B.1931,Mount Kisco,N.Y.; Hal Buckley:B.1937,Norwalk,Conn.:D.1986,North Hollywood,L.A.,Calif.; Stuart Margolin:B.1940,Davenport,IA.; Jeff Morris:B.191934,St.Joseph,MO.:D.2004,Toluca Lake,L.A.,Calif.; Richard Davalos:B.1930,Bronx,N.Y.C.:D.2016,Burbank,L.A.,Calif.; Perry Lopez:B.1929,N.Y.C.,N.Y.:D.2008,Becery Hills,Calif.; TomTroupe:B.1928,Kansas City,MO.; Harry Dean Stanton:B.1926,West Irvine,Ky.: D.2017,L.A.,Calif.; Dick Balduzzi:B.1928,Alliance,OH.; Gene Collins:B.1932,L.A.,Calif.; Michael Clark:B.1939,Boston,Mass.:D.2011,San Bernardino,Calif.; Dee Pollock:B.1938,Alhambra,Calif.:D.2005,Chico,Calif.; George Fargo:B.1930,Evanston,Ill.: D.1981,North Hollywood,L.A.,Calif.; Also-Starring: Len Lesser:B.1922,N.Y.C.,N.Y.:D.2011,Burbank,L.A.,Calif.; David Hurst:B.1926,Berlin,Ger.; George Savalas:B.19Bronx,N.Y.C.,N.Y.:D.1985,Westwood,Calif.; Fred Pearlman:B.1934,Buffalo,N.Y.:D.Sherman Oaks,Calif.; Shepherd Sanders:B.191927,Chicago,Ill.: D.2016,Palm Springs,Calif.; Ross Elliott:B.1917,the Bronx,N.Y.C.,N.Y.:D.1999,North Hollywood,L.A.,Calif.; Karl-Otto Alberty:B.1933,Berlin,Ger.; Sandy McPeak:B.1936,Indiana,Pa.:D.1997,Nevada City,Calif.; Joe Mantell:B.1915,Greenpoint,Brooklyn,N.Y.C.,N.Y.:D.2010,Tarzana,L.A.,Calif.; Hugo De Vernier:B.1912,London,Eng.:D.1993,London,Eng.; Phil Adams:B.1935,Culver City,L.A.,Calif.; Tom Signorelli:B.191935,Brooklyn,N.Y.C.,N.Y.:D.2010,N.Y.C.,N.Y.; Yves Montand:B.1921,Monsummano,Terne,Tuscany,N.Y.:D.1991,Senlis,Oise,Fr.; Read Morgan:B.1931,Chicago,Ill.; and: Paul Picerni:B.1922,Corona,N.Y.,2011,Llano,Calif.; also-featuring: John Landis:B.1950,Chicago,Ill.; Frank Garlotta:B.1938,Syracuse,N.Y.; Harry Goines:B.1938,Paulo Alto,Calif.; David Gross:B.1941,Edmonton,Alberta,Can.; James McHale:B.1930,Boston,Mass.:D.1973,West Irvine,Calif.; Robert MacNamara:B.1936,Chicago,Ill.:D.2018,Studio City,Calif.; Donald Waugh:B.1937,Parasippany,N.J.; Vincent Maracecchi:B. Zvonko Jovcic:B.1930,Belgrade,Serbia,Yugoslavia:D.1994,Belgrade,Serbia,Fed. Rep. of Yugoslavia; Lee Miller:B.1918,Hollywood,L.A.,Calif.:2002,Culver City,Calif.; Tony Wheeler:B.1942,N.Y.C.,N.Y.; and:Jerry Whittington:B.1941,High Point,North Carolina.

[@cpresuttis]

Had this on DVD also

[@g.t.richardson6311]

Rip oddball

[@badlaamaurukehu]

I just want the gold.

[@pioloaguirre4552]

MGM movie on Kelly's heroes 1970

[@Tom_The_Cat]

Kelly really hates fences

[@harveysimon3185]

Best scene

[@mohamedhammour2629]

good by legend

[@mrjohn2946]

Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪 2022-03-10

[@pioloaguirre4552]

Clint Eastwood movies 70s

[@rosariomaniscalco5918]

Gran bel film, peccato non trovare tuttora il film intero in italiano

[@petcali24]

Big brass balls!

[@keloid7682]

Does anyone know what the German guy was sayings?

[@kurtthecat3995]

Basically "keep it moving, quickly, go, go..." I spent 7 years studying German and 3 years living in Germany so I could understand what the Germans were saying in war movies.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

@@kurtthecat3995 Basically that's it. Right at the end when he sees Kelly he says "Stop right there". The actor is not German - probably a Yugoslav since it was filmed there.

[@kurtthecat3995]

@@stevekaczynski3793 True, his accent didn't sound German. The German words he was speaking was so basic that anybody could say them.

[@tuckmanstudios]

I’m surprised none of the Germans noticed them.

[@Roarmeister2]

But that's exactly the point - he WAS recognized which set off the Kelly jumping through the German line.

[@jameshardin4895]

I remember driving my jeep where I shouldn't be driving it...lol.... good old days... now we are the Nazi's

[@Archy-qy1fh]

This is ex Yugoslavia 😁

[@Mksteele747]

That darn Mulligan! I hope he got his aim better after all of these years.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

He ended up helping out Kojak, I mean Big Joe, after the war.