Kelly's Heroes (1970) - Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood did this movie as John Wayne did to WarWagon.
Donald Sutherland did this movie as Val Kilmer did to Tombstone 1993.
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[@BillHalliwell]

G'day M.A., In its own, strange, way, the late, great Donald Sutherland, Clint Eastwood and more than a handful of other great actors that appear in this film; had a direct effect on my future life. Two years after this film was made, I joined the Australian air force (RAAF). My first major posting was to a large, base that had its own, WW2-era, dedicated, cinema. 'Kelly's Heroes' was regularly screened there, by popular demand and, I heard, because it was the projectionist's favourite film. At that time, Australia was beginning to wind down its involvement in Vietnam and almost suddenly 'anti-war' films and satire-films on war were popular. The base cinema also screened other great classic films and over a year or so I became deeply interested in motion pictures. Anyway, after my enlistment in the RAAF ended, I began part-time work on a film book that was, eventually, the second of my books, published in 1985. So many of the people in 'Kelly's Heroes' became my favourite actors. The director, Brian Hutton was a true 'unsung hero' of the film world and the composer, Lalo Schifrin, gave us the iconic theme music to the TV series 'Mission Impossible', which is still used and inspires the 'Mission Impossible' film music to this very day. As I matured and continued my work on appreciating and writing about films; I felt I ‘grew up’ with its stars, like Don Rickles (my all-time favourite US comic), Telly Savalas, Carrol O’Connor, Clint Eastwood and, of course, Donald Sutherland. These days, I could write a book just about ‘Kelly’s Heroes’. Each time I watched it I discovered something ‘new’; some nuance or tiny bit of satire that I missed when I was much younger. Donald Sutherland (Oddball) continued to impress me with the amazing range he had as an actor. I learned that Donald Sutherland was a dedicated anti-war activist beginning with taking part in anti-Vietnam activities which ‘earned’ him his own NSA and CIA files that, fortunately, didn’t have a negative outcome for his growing popularity or his level of on-going work. Sorry, John Wayne fans, but he never convinced me for even a couple of hours he wasn’t ‘the Duke’; but this was not all his fault. As it happened, privately, and in a couple of rare TV appearances, John Wayne had a great sense of humour and could have played ‘full-on’ comedy but, back then, the ‘studio system’ was all powerful and they never wanted to kill the image of the most popular Western star in living memory. Donald Sutherland was the exact opposite. He was able to ‘become’ a totally different person with each role he, convincingly, played. The respected New York Times journalist, Alissa Wilkinson, wrote upon Donald’s passing; perhaps the best summation of a truly talented actor I’ve ever read in nearly 50-years of film appreciation; she wrote: “The long list of Sutherland's roles and accomplishments shows a man who understood emotion well. But it's this marriage of suspicion and empathy, human feeling and the fear of humanity gone wrong, that secured his place in acting history and made him an uncommon kind of star. He didn't disappear into a role, not exactly; he was too distinctive for that. More often, the role disappeared into him, and the result was something unforgettable”. - Alissa Wilkinson Donald’s first ‘career move’ was to the UK where he played minor roles in popular series TV, like ‘The Avengers’, etc. He soon was in regular work there. His part in the ‘smash hit’ American film ‘The Dirty Dozen’ (1967) which was shot in the UK, prompted him to move to the US where, basically, he was never out of work again, despite his vigorous anti-war politics that, sadly, damaged the careers’ of others. In ‘Kelly’s Heroes’ his ‘Oddball’ character is about as anti-war as it gets and this did nothing but increase his wide audience appeal. His range of characters is almost as impressive as the mammoth list of Canadian actors who have made an indelible mark on cinema, and the stage, all over the world. Look up ‘Canadian actors’ in Wikipedia and you’ll be astonished by the ‘legions’ of Canadian talent that have graced the big and small screens, almost, since they were invented. I genuinely regret that during my time as a film journalist I never had an opportunity to meet and interview Donald; that would have been an unforgettable experience. Time has robbed us of another great person who was a talented, intelligent, clever and thoughtful actor. The fantastic thing about actors, directors and film people in general; they have a level of ‘immortality’ that the majority of people can never imagine. Vale Donald Sutherland and thank you. Bill H.

[@motionattached]

Thanks so much for your sharing! This is such a beautiful tribute to a great actor, Donald Sutherland. In the description I wrote: Donald Sutherland did this movie as Val Kilmer did to Tombstone 1993, when he was still with us. RIP. 🙏

[@aurorauplinks]

thank you for a great commentaary. i always skim youtube comments when i have time hoping for great insight into the world.

[@aurorauplinks]

thank you for sharing that.

[@lastrada52]

Great write-up. Thanks for this.

[@samog777]

Makin me Feel old Bro😁😁😁

[@hughmcaloon6506]

I think Kelly's the only one of the Heroes left as of 6/20/2024

[@MrRugbylane]

y'know I think you might be right :( Time takes no prisoners

[@JAMessinaJr]

I think Tom Troupe (Corporal Job, was killed in mine field scene in the movie) is still alive.

[@un4zr3nalhaq88]

I think so too 😢

[@steveg18556]

David Margolis stills around?

[@jimwebb9328]

​@@steveg18556 David Margolis died in 2016.

[@ColinBaker-pm1lj]

$16 million in gold in1944 would now be over $280 million in 2024

[@motionattached]

Thanks for the financial analysis, 😂🕹🎉

[@N_Wheeler]

USD $15 million per guy?

[@richarddietzen3137]

Today’s value = $960,000,000. Your math is way off. $35/oz vs currently about 2,100/oz. The correct multiplier is 60.

[@ColinBaker-pm1lj]

@@richarddietzen3137 even better, was calculated using Google search, not my maths.

[@brucetucker4847]

@@richarddietzen3137 That's not the comparison to make, though. They can't spend gold ingots, they'll have to sell them, so the correct measure is the dollars they can get for the gold in 1944 vs the value of a dollar today. The money they will get for the gold (if they get something close to market value) translates to $280 million today.

[@Spirit-Soldier2026]

I have asked my missus to have the theme song played last at my funeral. The line "people tried to warn me but i guess i didn't care" just seems to fit so well! Hope it gets a few laughs...🤣🤣🤣❤❤❤

[@Manfred-cf9rn]

I requested ERIKA or DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLES to be played WHILE my ashes are BEING scattered in the wind. Didn't have the time to perform that in my previous Life..we were in such a chaos at STALINGRAD.. REALLY! 😮😢

[@Hiraghm]

That song I've adopted as my personal theme. It describes my life. I was so much smarter than everybody else. I had all the answers... so how come all those people I was smarter than have families and careers and money and success... and I have none of it? I guess I should have listened to my friends.

[@SBCBears]

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[@peterwaugh9416]

It's just one of those movies that will never get old. Great story. The Up Yours and the end says it all.

[@kurtb8474]

Amen! Such positive waves!

[@blogovitchxyz]

Funny I never considered it an anti-war film, although I guess it can be seen that way. It is most definitely an anti-Establishment film!

[@CRAIG5835]

Ya, Skills Pete.

[@thomasjbrugge6149]

Saw this on the base in Germany in 1970 (army brat) Oddball made quite an impression on my 12 year old mind, glad it's still revered as a classic! Thank you Mr Sutherland

[@simongee8928]

Yup, it's one of those films that has unintentionally become a classic like the original of The Italian Job. 😄

[@CRAIG5835]

Mine too. I live in New Zealand and my dad was Camp Commondant at Addington Barracks in Christchurch, the parents and I went to that plus the Battle of Britain premier, serving Officers and retired big wigs had first dibs at the tickets for the BOB movie.From that day on I have always followed Oddball, in Klute he did a great part with Jane Fonda as the female subject of interest.

[@shopldt538]

One of the best movies ever made.

[@Molasar54]

One of Eastwood's best movies. The cast was incredible. The director was a genius showing the shots of the faces of the soldiers as Kelly handed them a golden bar to win them over to do what he wanted. I knew this was a timeless classic when I saw it in a theater in 1970. Movies like this don't exist anymore.

[@donsaxon1948]

Excellent comment my friend !

[@fee1776]

Donald Sutherland (Oddball), RIP.

[@sartainja]

Amen. We lost a great actor who was in countless films and films.

[@CRAIG5835]

"Forward Hooooo!!!!'

[@troycurrie7784]

Awe man, don't hit me with them negative waves...so early in the morning.

[@sartainja]

“Woof, woof, woof! That's my other dog imitation.”

[@MickB52s]

Legend

[@edwardbartoneb]

Kelly’s Heroes is hands down one of the best movies ever written and produced.

[@buzz-86]

Nothing makes peace between enemies than a bunch of gold

[@Hiraghm]

It's one of the glories of capitalism.

[@logandarklighter]

@@Hiraghm Enlightened self-interest! It does make the world go 'round! 👍😎

[@andrewgrandfield7214]

Or a war between friends.

[@simongee8928]

The exchange of looks when Kelly meets Oddball is pure genius - ! 😅

[@motionattached]

Oddball did this movie a bit like Val Kilmer did to Tombstone 1993, put some goofy entertainment in the movie. 😂🕹

[@selfdo]

Rolling off some obscure French gal...

[@neilashton9459]

When I was 10 years old my Mom had to work on a Saturday and I had to go with her - dread boredom. Luckily there was a theater across the street from her job and Kelly’s Heroes was playing. I watched it 3 times back to back and still one of my favorite movies 😊

[@motionattached]

Thanks! What a sweet memory associated with a great movie 🕹🎉🎉

[@babachloe7140]

Beautiful childhood memories, I sneaked out while my grandparents were sleeping and watched this on TV. Looks like I need to watch it again, 30 years later.

[@motionattached]

Beautiful childhood memories attached with a great movie, priceless!🕹🎉🍿

[@bountyinthebadlands6352]

RIP, Donald. EPIC ACTOR, TRUE CANADIAN! Your work is loved. Between M.A.S.H. and Kelly's Heros, I dont which you shone more in. God Speed❤

[@motionattached]

Truly EPIC ACTOR! RIP, 🙏

[@Nite37]

Everyone forgets he played the "Clumsy Waiter" in ZAZ's Kentucky Fried Movie. An epic role.

[@robertwheeler4068]

RIP Donald Sutherland...aka Oddball✌

[@mbeenz]

Such A Great Film!, Love It And Always Will! One Of My All Time Favorites!

[@MrTallpoppy58]

Wonderful movie, one of my all time favourites.

[@TheSaturnV]

Same, watch it at least once a year.

[@InquisitiveSearcher]

My favorite movie of all time, for me, even better than Star Wars. And that is truly saying something as I really like Star Wars.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Just behind Jaws for me.

[@kevinmhilding]

Agreed! My all time fave as well.

[@Craig-ib7gk]

This movie is made of pure 'win' and dripping with awesome. Every player in this movie was pure gold. O'Conner, Sutherland, Eastwood, Savalas, Rickles, McCloud, absolutely everyone.

[@motionattached]

Thanks! That is so true. 🕹

[@mannygreywolfsdb9936]

RIP Oddball. Donald Sutherland, one of the great actors of his generation. 💔

[@TRONABORON]

Such a great classic with so many legend actors! They can never make another movie like this due to the fact we dont have these kind of men anymore!

[@DanielCastillo-v3n]

My deepest condolences to his family. RIP 🙏

[@cyberleaderandy1]

My favourite war film 😊❤

[@Knife_Collector]

I saw that in when it first came out...I was 13, and I have always loved the song Burning Bridges.

[@RivetGardener]

It's so nice to watch a movie where all the actors are having fun making the movie!

[@motionattached]

well said!🕹🎉

[@robertwheeler4068]

My high school sweetheart and I enjoyed this movie at the theater! Laughed till our sides hurt throughout the film!❤❤👍😂🤣

[@motionattached]

Thanks for sharing, that is a beautiful memory!🎉🕹

[@wellshutchins6885]

Greatest war story ever made except for Saving Pvt. Ryan. This has a better ending. Fewer negative waves.

[@GMEOK]

One of the greatest movies ever!!! I watch it at least once a year even now LOL!!!

[@motionattached]

The good, The hilarious, and the witty, 🕹🎉

[@meanmadmonkey7762]

I do also, a couple 3 times a year...lol😂😂😂😂 it's awesome!!!!

[@MatthewNorgate]

Mate, one of the best.wwtwo movies you get song you get

[@royskuderin2386]

I was 13 when this movie was new in then theaters and love it as much now as I did then. RIP Don, you were great!

[@RobARug]

This should be called Kelly's Heroes in twelve and a half minutes. Motion Attached, you are a genius!

[@motionattached]

Thanks, you are my hero. 🕹🎉😂

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

Odd Ball was a dingbat, but the dude knew the limits of his vehicle. The moment he said he uses paint rounds though? Nah. We gonna go with the fellas from the 8th ACR. 😆

[@Hiraghm]

I don't understand. Could you explain that for me?

[@selfdo]

Could've been used to find the range. The M1 76 mm gun was a bitch to bore-sight, from what the old tankers have said.

[@danshearer7627]

Have a little faith baby, have a little faith. RIP Donald. One the funniest war movies in modern times.

[@davidely7032]

Caroll O"Connor was the one who made me laugh out loud the most. Clueless in a most spectacular way. Brilliant!

[@meanmadmonkey7762]

Archie Bunker is, was, and still is the man. You're right, I love Carroll O'Connor in this, he's just brilliant.

[@davidely7032]

@@meanmadmonkey7762 It amazes me that Archie Bunker was in his late 40s, early 50s when All in the Family was just beginning. I'm older than Archie Bunker. Eesh. Who'd a thunk it? Carroll would have been 100 years old. That is... incomprehensible to me. He seems so... timeless. Damn. 😓

[@selfdo]

Caroll O' Connor was actually nothing in his personal life like either Archie Bunker nor General Colt. He also played the more taciturn, but still somewhat outspoken and gruff MG Hunter, who calls Colonel Frederick (Bill Holden) an "insolent bastard" in "The Devil's Brigade". That man was the best example of ACTING there ever was.

[@davesmith3561]

One of the BEST movies ever made!

[@joelellis7035]

"We could be heroes for . . . three days." Wondering if this influenced the David Bowie song, "Heroes."

[@joelellis7035]

RIP Oddball (Donald Sutherland).

[@rossjones5741]

If this movie was real life, all of these"heroes" had three issues to overcome, first of all, survive the war and second, survive the very harsh winter of 44'. Lastly, make sure no one got any gold, especially the Germans, except the german tank crew. That would be a hell of a war story if it was true.😮.

[@andrewvelonis5940]

Actually, it is. Sort of. There was a large cache of German gold that was intercepted by a small unit (sorry, I don't know the official term) and disappeared.

[@selfdo]

There was no reason for they and that Tiger crew to split up. Kelly, Big Joe et al are already deserters, subject to at least one long stay at Leavenworth, if not being shot (happened to PTV Eddie Slovik, but for a different reason), and even before they agreed to blow down the bank's door for a share of the gold, the German tank crew were already facing being either shot or sent to a "punishment" battalion for failing to hold the bank, with General Colt and the rest of the division on its way. Either way, their longevity is doubtful. The SS-Oberscharfuhrer took a chance they weren't lying to him (likely his radioman is ready with the MG in case Kelly, Big Joe, and Oddball try something...), because, realistically, their only chance to survive is to ditch the Tiger and their SS uniforms and head for Switzerland themselves. May as well do that with these screwball GIs; hell, they've already pulled off one helluva heist thus far! The REAL questions should be that German "Opel Blitz", actually a post-war Czech-made Praga truck, which would be in the reserve or surplus stocks of the then-Yugoslav Army which furnished also the T-34/85s that were already mocked up as "Tigers" (for a native film shot there the previous year) also, be able to carry even the gold that Kelly and his boys kept after divvying up with the Germans and Oddball and his crew? I'd say that TIGER, leaky fuel system and all, is more capable of hauling the gold, but it's THIRSTY and rather CONSPICUOUS, and that, as Moriarty would point out, it's likely to break down long before they made it to Switzerland. It'd have been more realistic IF Kelly, the Germans, and Oddball and his boys were able to quickly scrounge SEVERAL such trucks, and improvise a CONVOY, those being enough to actually haul that gold. That was the problem that the goofy Oberst Dankopf faced, he supposedly HAD the trucks, but was scrounging for fuel, and he'd had been better off to somehow work out a "deal, deal" with Crapgame. Also, though obviously the Germans are actually kinda "thin" in that sector (they'd been holding that town that Kelly, Big Joe et al charged through when Mulligan actually put his artillery on time and target, which Big Joe said would be a FIRST for him (the actor was played by Telly Savalas's brother, George Savalas, who also was a regular in "Kojak"), and, with the unexpected penetration of Colt's division that HE wasn't informed of (but he enjoyed hearing the river crossing, aka "the ballgame", on the radio), they're obviously bugging the hell out of Clermont, but there's still about a hundred or so miles to the Swiss border, and there's still PLENTY of Germans on the way! A great follow-up story would be that the Tiger, crewed by both Oddball and the Oberscharfuhrer (Played by Karl-Otto-Alberty, who appeared as some German character in just about every big WWII film of the 1960s and 1970s, his name is never given) follows the truck(s) and "escorts" them to the German border, helping them either bluff their way, or SHOOT, past the German checkpoints, or use SOME of the gold to bribe them, hell, maybe the German soldiers at said checkpoints shoot their officers and JOIN the caper, which DILUTES their shares, but what the hell... A really DARK point...Oddball was (nominally) in charge of THREE Shermans, who never got a replacement CO, presumably "decapitated by an '88", which Oddball wasn't sorry about, as the 1LT had been trying to get them killed ever since they'd landed at Omaha Beach (presumably well AFTER June 6th). So, ONE of the tanks was "in the river", presumably having gotten stuck or swamped as it tried to ford, and the other M4, which Kelly and Big Joe are "sheltering" next to (not too afraid of something cooking off, are they?), is burning, which Oddball TELLS them (I'd think they ALREADY knew). I can see the burning M4's crew being dead and their bodies being consumed by the flames if they took an anti-tank or Panzerfaust round, but what of the abandoned M4 in the river? Were they shot or hit by mortar fire as they ditched the tank? I sure didn't see ANY of the other tankers of Oddball's platoon clambering aboard his tank as they pushed on to Clermont! As for the homosexual musicians in the marching band ("they're 'freaks', which was the means to hint at their sexuality ca. 1970, and although being gay would have rendered them "unsuitable" for the Army, being manpower-hungry, as long as they weren't too blatant about it ("don't ask, don't tell"), they'd put them to work suitable for them...like the marching band, who knew they could and would FIGHT? That gold was one helluva motivator, a great "outtake" would be Maitland and Colt having surreptitiously set it all up so that the division ("my 'army', though a two-star is typically a DIVISION CO) "back in the war", with the notion that they'd take the gold for themselves, especially Maitland, who already was figuring out how to get a purloined boat into a B-17, then being pissed when it was found that Kelly et al double-crossed them. Finally, that entire scene of debauchery at the depot, behind Cragame's "office" of Oddball and his boys...they also had to be well-persuaded to leave all that, especially the booze, food, and GIRLS...and did anyone notice that the gal hanging up the wash is obviously quite great with CHILD? I didn't know, given the time frame of the film (September 1944), that Oddball and/or his boys could work THAT fast, as they couldn't have landed at Omaha any sooner than June 6, 1944!

[@matthewchewning3822]

Love this movie.

[@henrymorgan3982]

Soon all of these great actors will be gone, but the memory of their performances will be saved forever. The best WWII movie. Ever.

[@maxsoon1097]

Great movie of the 70's. All the great superstars in it. Clint really made our day special. War movie with comical scene. 😅

[@scottviverette14]

This movie never got the credit that it deserves

[@markkravig7410]

My favorite Sutherland role of alll time. He was a master and will be missed. Smooth sailing, Oddball.

[@selfdo]

Somewhere he's relaxing on a lawn chair, drinking wine, eating cheese, catching some rays...RIP, "Oddball".

[@GH-cp9wc]

Great summary, well done

[@rezuankhalid5407]

The greatest quote in this film, "THIS IS NUTS!" . I can't hold my laugh for any of them being crazy behind enemy line. 😂

[@johnusavage3051]

One of the greatest movies ever made.

[@alisterfolson]

Hey, it's the "I'll buy that for a dollar" guy!

[@wellshutchins6885]

When something spectacular happens my grandson and I sometimes look at each other and "Woof Woof" Sutherland's greatest roll.

[@Filomeno28]

R.I.P. Donald Sutherland. Allá a Legend!..."" 🙏🌈🌟🪖

[@TellySavalas-or5hf]

Telly's golden year.

[@motionattached]

Telly was a heck of field commander perfectly matching the role in this movie.🕹

[@MRKEVIN769]

RIP #2 Donald Southerland from the Dirty Dozen

[@darrabase1]

Loved that movie, and that era of movies.

[@alertgasper]

Great summary of this movie. Its everything you want in a war movie when the heat wave is caught you inside the AC--great actors, quotable lines, a plot beside just making it out alive, action that isn't green screen CGI, and comedy besides just the absurdity of military life.

[@motionattached]

Thanks for your comments. 🕹🍿

[@marco-58]

Thee most entertaining 'War' film. Great story, every actor perfectly cast giving a perfect performance. Don Rickles was equally superb.

[@patrickschoenpflug]

One of the best movies ever made the greatest actors the world will ever know 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😃😃😃👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@tomroise9426]

Great movie!!

[@hiddenfromhistory100]

Yup, that's what war is ALWAYS about - a few guys get rich and the rest of us die to make it happen.

[@davifdavid4347]

We're sheep and therefore expendable. That's how the powers that be see us. Thankfully,those of us who have a few brain cells will choose never to allow ourselves to be used as pawns in politicians war games.

[@None-zc5vg]

Retired Marine General Smedley Butler said the same thing in his late-'30s book "War Is A Racket". He and his men had been suckers used by Wall Street and the big bankers to subvert democracy and to create 'banana republics'.

[@brandonpliskin2310]

Love that kelly knows big joe is the man for the job. His plan, but joe runs the outfit

[@selfdo]

Big Joe knows that w/o his gruff guidance, his me will get themselves KILLED, which a few do anyway. If they bolt and join Kelly, and he doesn't, he's no choice but to alert Maitland, his CO, and the MPs, and he hates BOTH with a passion. For an E-7 to go along with such a thing isn't realistic. I'll hazard a guess that due to Telly Salavas' age, 47, when the movie was produced, he's a "retread", i.e. someone that served ALSO in WWI, as there were quite a few of them in real life, and that's why he, obviously not a "lifer", else he'd never have the attitudes he does, and still made E-7. But there's quite a few head-scratchers in this film, at some point, you just have to suspend disbelief and enjoy the freakin' movie!

[@itsenergybob8917]

I saw this movie at a drive-in back in the day. Still my all time favorite war movie. It played after "Born Losers" on a double feature.

[@motionattached]

Great movies related to good old day memories, that is priceless. 🕹🎉

[@jimmythefarker1430]

I wagged school and watched this movie (in a cinema), yes I'm that old and persuaded cashier that even underage, and in school uniform I was legit. An afternoon watching this great movie. Epic. RIP Mr Sutherland

[@lbaker3602001]

"I made a slight mistake, it's not $1.6 million it's $16 million!"

[@ironeagle22a]

Rip Donald Sutherland

[@joenic4303]

I was in the 35th ID. It was national guard, but regularly deployed.

[@motionattached]

🥇🎉

[@CarlosLeon-n3t]

Great movie, I watched that when I was a kid

[@williamneal7210]

Never gets old!

[@kpj9535]

the Orc General in return of the king always makes me think of Carrol O'Connor in this

[@brunozeigerts6379]

One of my faves. Love the Tiger mock-ups. (especially when Oddball hits one with paint.)

[@motionattached]

Agreed!

[@iqbalayub]

RIP Donald Sutherland, mostly all his movies are good!!

[@anthonyju6392]

The song for those that don't know is called "Burning Bridges".

[@motionattached]

Thanks for sharing! That is a great song. 🕹😂

[@rollinwithunclepete824]

RIP Donald Sutherland! What a great movie!

[@WilliamTurneresq]

Sutherland was hysterical.

[@shacknastyray4429]

Drinking wine, eating cheese, and catching some rays.... Oddball

[@The_Ninedalorian]

Oddball the Greatest American hero RIP Donald

[@hoperp1951]

That $16M in 1944 would be worth about $285,517,272 in today's money. However, Gold prices have gone up far more than inflation so 14,000 gold bars (each one a standard 400 Troy ounce) would be worth in todays money (20 June 2024) US$936,844 x 14,000 = US$13,115,816,000. The value in 1944 was approx US$33.85 per Troy ounce, so a standard 400 Troy ounce bar would have been worth US$13,540. 14,000 such Gold bars would have equated to approximately US$189,560,000.

[@motionattached]

Thanks for the financial analysis, but you got two numbers, $13,115,816,000 and $189,560,000. Which is the final one? 🕹😂💛

[@hoperp1951]

@@motionattached Sell the gold bars in 1944 and they'd have got US$189,560,000. Keep the gold bars and sell today and it is US$13,115,816,000. :)

[@joelellis7035]

@hoperp1951 I don't think they could have waited until now. Even the youngest at possibly 18 in 1944 would be 98 now.

[@motionattached]

@@joelellis7035 They could use those gold as property to finance some money they need 😂🕹

[@brentwegher2014]

14000 bars at 400 troy ounces per bar is 5.6 million ounces. 1944 rate for gold was $35 per troy ounce. That's 196 million dollars in 1944. Purchasing power today would be in the billions.

[@kfiscal01]

Wuff! Wuff! RiP Oddball, thanks for memories.

[@beansbaxter224]

What a All Star cast!

[@ricardopradavazquez5286]

Que clase de filme tan gracioso.Mi generación lo disfruto mucho.En mi país fue subtitulado con el nombre de: "_ El Botín de los Valientes"_.Las colas eran interminables.Grandes recuerdo de nuestra juventud.

[@babayaga1767]

always with the negative waves moriarty

[@stevenbeck5746]

The funniest and most thoughtful war movie ever made.

[@c4blew]

I always think about the 3 guys who didn´t make it and died in that minefield. RIP Edit: Totally forgot the crew of those 2 lost Tanks, RIP those aswell!😆

[@roselojrvalera2588]

Yes, truly unfortunate for them..

[@selfdo]

@@roselojrvalera2588 Rather dark. Oddball didn't seem all that upset about ten of his "boys" getting killed. At least, given that "rest area" with the booze and the broads, they went out "happy"! BTW, which one, if ANY, knocked up the gal hanging the wash?

[@paulbegley1464]

The real mistake is you don't flip over a full box of gold bars with that little effort

[@motionattached]

That is a need of aesthetics 😂🕹

[@tonyford4170]

The nazis (ERR) And many other nations robbed, stole, and pilfered etc all through the war.

[@deejy232]

Donald Sutherlands at his most cool

[@tonyjones1560]

I recall hearing that a group of German and American soldiers banded together to rob a bank in Frankfurt at the end of the war. This movie, supposedly, was based on this legendary crime. Anyone else ever heard this?

[@Shadowkey392]

RIP Donald Sutherland.

[@rvrski1]

RIP oddball, awesome character Don.

[@evilhobbes]

My 5 favorite war movies: Kelly's Heroes, Where Eagles Dare, Saving Private Ryan, We Were Soldiers, and Hacksaw Ridge. I know others are considered better and, yes, I have seen them all. This is just my list.

[@gillmartin1758]

This was one of the first movies where I questioned the math. Sure it’s only a movie, but 14000 bars! The bank only had about 500 if that not to mention the weight.

[@Dancing_Alone_wRentals]

Good job with the video. tHanks for posting!

[@motionattached]

Thanks. 🕹🍿

[@roberthathcock3958]

Telly Savalas and Don Rickles were perfect for this movie.

[@selfdo]

Rickles should have been cast as a wisecracking con artist in "Kojak" for a guest appearance. Would've been PERFECT.

[@TRONABORON]

When you turn an army movie into a western ending movie... Only these great actors can pull this off! 😂

[@motionattached]

it was one of the best cast 🎉

[@dantesinfernopurgatory7826]

Take the money and RUN!

[@BlueyedWolfGreywolf]

That is correct Clint Eastwood is the last one still alive of he cast now.

[@jimmiemac9000]

Lots of accolades in the comments for the late great Donals Sutherland. And well deserved. Let us not however forget the late great Don Rickles, as Crap game. Rickles was wonderful in this movie. "I haven't even asked you for anything yet and already you're crying."

[@mitchgross592]

Love this cutdown. Just wish it included my favorite line, when Rickles said to make a deal with the German tank commander. “Maybe he’s a Republican.” Perfection.

[@motionattached]

Glad you liked it!🕹🎉

[@rumblehat4357]

Crapgame- “Make a deal.” Kelly- “What kind of a deal?” Crapgame- “A DEAL deal.” Even better with those lines preceding it.

[@arkwill14]

I just learned today that Mulligan (the artillery guy Kelly gave the gold bar to) is George Savalas -- Telly Savalas' younger brother.

[@motionattached]

Thanks for sharing, what a joyful surprise 🕹😂

[@selfdo]

Also was a regular on Telly Savalas' well-known TV series, "Kojak". The MAD magazine parody speculated that with George's wild hair, and Telly's being shaven, somewhere they had a SISTER going about with a CREW CUT. With today's, *ahem*, "ladies", not out of the realm of possiblity.

[@warrenvollaro2529]

I loved this movie it's a pisser !!!

[@robertculbreth694]

I kept waiting for Carroll O'Connor to say, "You meathead!".

[@lopezalehandro1666]

they actually pulled this off in 2003.

[@AndrewPatterson-m2u]

Maybe Hollywood should make a remake of this movie. It’s a great story, with great characters and it’s been 50 yrs. A whole new generation would love it and it would make a change from Marvel movies.

[@petergreaves2914]

It’s already been done, set in Iraq 3 Kings, George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg

[@AndrewPatterson-m2u]

@@petergreaves2914 Good point. I missed the connection. 👍

[@selfdo]

It's be ruined by political "correctness", including casting black soldiers in a historically nonsensical role.

[@dramoth64]

RIP Oddball!