Kellys Heroes 1970 Tank Tunnel Attack

[@thatguyfromcetialphaV]

My grandad who was a tank commander in the 50s and 60s said there was an Oddball in every battalion. He said the scene where he sits drinking wine and eating cheese was so accurate it was painful.

[@jnichols3]

While I do not know how accurate the tactics were, I like this scene because it is one of the few in the movie to attempt to show that while Oddball was crazy, he was in fact a trained tank commander. In the tunnel, for a moment, he stops being a hippie and actually becomes a fighting leader. Movies today would have made him one dimensional and had him and his men blunder into the rail yard and fire wildly while while laughing for no reason.

[@Johnny96ri]

As goofy as he is, Oddball is actually a pretty good tank leader.

[@peteford7258]

@@Johnny96ri The kind of leader that has seen one to many battles to jump in without a reason.

[@zerofail.455]

I agree, I noticed as they were leaving they had the rear tank cover the back and even sent a round down the tunnel to keep anything from following them. Whoever coordinated this scene had a decent knowledge of military tactics.

[@demetrioshristovski4518]

@@zerofail.455 Decent what? They left the safety of the tunnel, with excellent visibility outward and poor visibility inward so return fire is difficult, but opening fire out is easy. Concentrated fire position with ultimate flank coverage, to drive into an open bowl which could be swarmed by infantry from all angles....And from above no less, in a near urban environment. How does not one German soldier have a panzerfaust? Heck even a bundle grenade. We don't get to see the German antiaircraft flakvierling do anything but get destroyed, there is like 1 minute into the battle it is doing absolutely nothing. A 4x20mm cannon that can empty 4 boxes of 20 rds of 20mm shells in 5 seconds.... at such short range it would wreak havoc on even medium armour. This entire seen is fubar, nonsense.

[@_Muzolf]

@@demetrioshristovski4518 Pretty sure if Oddbals crew had seen even a single anti-armor cannon, they would have went around. As it is, this seems to be just some checkpoint with a single anti-aircraft battery that was likely not prepped, behind enemy lines. Heck, they should have heard the tanks coming, but did not react, so i assume they are so far behind lines, they did not even consider anyone without wing showing up to fight them.

[@DavidJohnson-tg9tr]

Cracks me up the German who's ringing the bell to sound an alarm. I guess the sound of multiple tanks blowing you to shit didn't give it away.

[@papaben5427]

He was ringing the lunch time bell. ;-)

[@drivinsouth651]

Kelly`s Heroes is one of my all-time favorite action-comedy movies! Hillarious!

[@maximgun3833]

Even if it's satire the scene is still pretty badass and well choreographed

[@drivinsouth651]

Great directing

[@agingstrongwithrickandron1321]

I can’t get enough of that scene.

[@thebigh4752]

Satire aside, this is still a really badass scene. In it's own right.

[@connormclernon26]

And yet the equipment is more accurate than 90% of films set in ww2 in this time period. Even the “Tiger Tanks” made an actual effort into looking like Tiger Tanks as opposed to dressing some American MBTs up and calling it a day

[@Fr1thar]

@@connormclernon26 well tiger tanks were rare af back then And people in the 70s didn’t know what German tanks looked like

[@ColdWarVet607]

The Sherman was designed to support and be supported by ground troops. Fast and agile, it was never intended to take on Tigers or Panthers. Dozens of Sherman's could be turned out every day, so to the Army Brass the tanks and crews were the original "Expendables". Tigers and Panthers took 6+ months to build and that's if parts were all there at the factory. Maintenance and repairs were nightmares or impossible.

[@TheDamnedUchiha]

I turned 30 about a week ago. My father, 63 now showed me this movie for the first time when I was like 9 or 10. This is to this day one of my favorite movies. But what I come here to say is at 2:42 is THE GREATEST practical explosion I've ever seen in a movie. The camera shaking right after is so badass and awesome. All I can do is laugh. They did not mess around making Kelly's Heroes

[@corey1054]

Are people ACTUALLY complaining that this scene is unrealistic?!? This is a movie where a Hippy modifies his Tanks shells to fill them with paint, has a speaker fitted to his tank, sneaks through German lines with Three loud ass tanks, ect ect. ITS A COMEDY. NOT SAVING PRIVATE RYAN!!!

[@ZnenTitan]

"Deese tanks are faster than any other tank in the European theater of operations, forwards or backwards. You see man we like to feel that we can get out of trouble quicker than we got into it.

[@Charliecomet82]

It's better than "Saving Private Ryan." (Mostly because it doesn't take itself so seriously!)

[@reginakaczorowska9142]

@@Charliecomet82 Aso have better looking Tiger replicas ;)

[@classiclistener01]

@@reginakaczorowska9142 - Believe it or not, I read that they're the 'same' Tigers as in "Saving Private Ryan"...a Tiger 1 body on a T-34 chassis. :)

[@classiclistener01]

John Gavildafish - Yes, they're ACTUALLY complaining! Aren't people wonderfully and amazingly stupid? :D

[@geraldjohnson4013]

I was taken aback by several stories told by WWII veterans in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps who said they actually knew fighting men like Oddball. They wore their hair longer and were weird but interestingly a lot of them were volunteers. There were mountain men who lived like the old mountain men from pioneer days out in California and other western states who enlisted after Pearl Harbor was bombed. A lot of them were Oddball types but interestingly very patriotic.

[@tdr124-q8l]

My dad was a vietnam vet, and he worked with another vet in Washington that everyone called "Mountain Man" because he lived out in the cascades some place. Haha

[@geraldjohnson4013]

@@tdr124-q8l nothing like fresh air and mountain living for your own health.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

What the people saying this scene is unrealistic are forgetting is that in the film Kelly arranged for him, Oddball and their group to pass through enemy lines, so technically the Germans are not expecting three Sherman tanks ten miles past their defensive line and in their own turf, and the railways would not have had many tanks or armored units protecting them since they would then be direct targets for allied bombers and planes.

[@FerretJohn]

and what heavy weapons they did have were primarily geared for anti-aircraft. That heavy quad wasn't really a major threat to the Shermans since they couldn't lower the guns enough to do more than scratch the tops

[@stryker214]

Exactly! At least a couple characters show dismay at how deeply Kelly's/Oddball's merry little band has penetrated behind enemy lines (the engineer company commander and the Patton-esque general). Furthermore, it goes to reason that the Germans did not consider the direction that Kelly and Oddball took to be a likely route for an Allied push, or they would not have stashed the gold along that route, only to have it grabbed by an American armored column. So it goes to reason that the more credible threat to that particular rail station was not a column of tanks breaking through out of nowhere, but rather a pair of P-47 Thunderbolts coming by to f*** up their little choo-choos (as the USAAF did to great success leading up to Operation Overlord). In fact, Kelly's vehicles are wiped out by a pair of Allied aircraft, who mistook them for a German unit, earlier in the movie; because, again, they are deep behind enemy lines where neither side expects US forces to be present.

[@yukitwirly3044]

Meh. Soldiers of all major combatants at this stage in the war would not panic and behave so irrationally at the appearance of one or two tanks. They would take cover immediately, not run around in the open to get conveniently mowed down by machine gun fire. Tanks are very vulnerable without infantry to cover them because their vision is quite limited due to having to see everything through vision ports/periscopes with a mammoth engine vibrating in a steel box. Yes, yes, yes it's a comedy. So what? It would have made a better scene if the soldiers acted like actual soldiers rather than schoolchildren in a mass shooting.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

Yuki Twirly "They would take cover immediately, not run around in the open to get conveniently mowed down by machine gun fire." and in an open train yard where is there any reliable cover that could withstand the machine gun fire or primary cannon's of three Sherman tanks? "Tanks are very vulnerable without infantry to cover them because their vision is quite limited due to having to see everything through vision ports/periscopes with a mammoth engine vibrating in a steel box." One tank maybe, three tanks side by side covering each other, not so much. Especially since most of the Germans are unarmed at this moment and not in full uniform becasue they were working, they weren't expecting to have to fight three enemy tanks.

[@lgmmrm]

Yuki Twirly at that stage in the war, most of Germany’s actual troops weren’t even trained soldiers but every male capable of carrying a gun and not needed elsewhere. So these guys were pretty much probably laborers with no military training whatsoever

[@douglasdaniel4504]

This movie is complete satire, but this scene still rocks pretty hard as action, considering the period it was made.

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

And still more realistic than any scene in Fury.

[@larsuppling981]

And lets face it, 30-40 miles behind the front. And out of frikkin NOWHERE 3 enemy tanks comes out in the middle of your camp.... playing music while blowing you all to hell... Not much of a fight there..

[@nitsu2947]

the explosion man

[@altecman21]

loved it............

[@drivinsouth651]

@@larsuppling981 They had to get through enemy lines and even the Trumpsters like to see Nazis get blown up! Excellent comedy!

[@FerretJohn]

"I been working on the railroad, all the livelong day...." Very appropriate tune at the end

[@larsuppling981]

FerretJohn well they certainly worked over that particular piece of railroad very efficiently..... XD

[@drivinsouth651]

As soldiers, they were just doing their American duty of killing Nazis, very comically.

[@mauriceboykin4422]

Oddballs all business when it comes to poppin caps on the nazi

[@claypidgeon4807]

The part where they play “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” had me on the floor laughing the first time I saw this.

[@foreigncontaminant2015]

One of my favourite scenes. A full-length mockery of war, a film of people who have nothing in common with the idea of war and death, and of the real motivation of the common man. There's a lot more to Kelly's heroes than the laughs...

[@rocknloom2474]

My grandpa on my dad's side loves this movie.

[@jeffwilkes4508]

One of the best war movies made ! Always fun to watch !

[@Harikejn]

The tank scene was filmed in city of Novi Sad (today's Serbia) on mountain called Fruska Gora. And the whole movie was filmed in former Yugoslavia.

[@mladentomic7249]

Vrdnik mine just after closing :)

[@Discotekh_Dynasty]

I didn’t know that, that’s really cool. I did think some of the plants looked wrong for where the movie is set

[@Harikejn]

@@Discotekh_Dynasty Well, to be honest. I didn't know that either until I found out on internet. Also the same Sherman tank that Donald Sutherland was in that movie is now displayed in Novi Sad in Museum of Vojvodina. And believe it or not Clint Eastwood was in Novi Sad when making a break of filming Kelly's Heroes.

[@MrReded69]

Over twenty years later Oddball's son Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore would also use loudspeakers and music (mounted on his Air Cav attack helicopters) to spread confusion and fear among the enemy! Although he was more of a Wagner fan(Oddball apparently took home a collection of Wagner records to go with that Tiger tank).

[@dexfernandez8273]

This. :)

[@nickmitsialis]

MrReded, I thought Oddball's son was General WR Monger & he used monsters to fight aliens. I'm sure he'd cry but he lost his tear ducts in the war...

[@rainsunshine4308]

Funny enough the Russians did something like that for real in WW2, when crossing the Oder river. Using records with hammering sounds, like they were building bridges over the river, to attract the Germans to that spot, while in real the build bridges elsewhere.

[@mrastleysghost]

+Gert Mulder in the 70's or 80's the U.S. Marines played metal on huge speakers to get a dictator to surrender in Central America. He was a huge fan of the classics like orchestral music.

[@MrReded69]

M Astley Yeah Noriega. But it was the video of the overthrow of a Romanian dictator and he and his wife's bullet riddled corpses that convinced the Pineapple to surrender.

[@edwardpate6128]

This shows what a great tank the Sherman was when about 85% of the time it faced soft targets like this.

[@hagamapama]

and the tankies knew what to hit to keep the threats neutralized, nothing heavier than a rifle got to shoot at them for more than a few seconds.

[@edwardpate6128]

@@hagamapama And at the Detroit Tank Arsenal Chrysler cranked these out like cookies at a bakery!

[@johnveglio4433]

It was the best we had at the time and it kicked ass on everything except the big Nazi tanks till the M-26 Pershing came out.

[@georgevanhoose6333]

Yeah, the M4 seems to have gotten a reputation for being weak against heavier tanks, and that's a damn shame because the Sherman actually performed amazingly well in its role. It was never meant -- and never really used -- for tank-v-tank combat, at least not until the Easy-8; even then, the E8 was only meant to deal with sporadic encounters against heavy armor. It was a solid infantry support tank, and a good commander could make mincemeat out of most any enemy.

[@spamuraigranatabru1149]

@@georgevanhoose6333 Sort of, when the Sherman was first made it had the very best gun they had in their arsenal, the M3 varient of the old 1897 75mm the US got tonnes of in the first world war. When the 3 inch gun was made, it wasn't practical and required a redesigned Sherman upper hull to mount it in the M10 GMC turret. Even later when the 76mm was finally birthed as a redesign and finally capable of being mounted in the cancelled T23's turret, the 90mm soon came about and was decided to not be nessesary on the M4, saving it for the next tank (That would surely not be so bad that it, its replacement and its replacement's replacement wouldn't all fail so hard the states chose to keep the Sherman till the forth tank was made in large enough numbers.) but also conveniently being light enough to refit the old GMCs with it to the M36.

[@williamsiegle8205]

Thank you for this upload, brings back memories of sitting on the couch with dad watching old Clint Eastwood movies. Those were the days!

[@maxmulsanne7054]

Yes they were. RIP "Pops." 🌿✝️🌤

[@galicije83]

One mother beautiful movie.....one of my favorite movies.. Greetings form Serbia...btw this scene was filming om mountain Fruska Gora in Serbia...

[@peterson7082]

+галиције83 Thanks for letting my country film there, it seems to work perfectly mirror a 1940's Southern France environment. I'd really love to visit the mountains there.

[@galicije83]

+Nathan Peterson This scene was filming in Social republic of Serbia, SFR of Yugoslavia. Rest of the movie was shot on location in the Istrian village of Vižinada in the EX Yugoslavia, now just Croatia (in 1969 it was social republic Croatia). Yugoslavia was selected for shooting movie because in 1969, Yugoslavia was one of the few nations whose army was still equipped with operating World War II mechanized equipment, both German and American. This simplified logistics tremendously. Adriatic sea and coast are very similar too the french coast of normandy...

[@MichalKaczorowski]

They build all of this only to blow it up?

[@nickmitsialis]

I am curious, back then did Yugoslavia have leftover equipment from the USSR too? Germany I can understand, but I didn't know they had US equipment as well.

[@MichalKaczorowski]

Filthy Disgusting Ape In 1949, the United States initiated the Mutual Defense Assistance Program. Allies and potential allies were provided with various kinds of monetary and materiel support in an effort to build up their defenses against the perceived threats of the Cold War. Many countries received tanks, most of which were WW II surplus.

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

Beyond being a hellaciously impressive tank battle scene, the soundtrack made it even more so

[@kenpalmer1965]

This was one of the most memorable yet bizarre scenes of the entire movie. It showed Oddball and his tanks in action against the Germans though their methods were a bit odd with the playing of the music during battle. It left a definite impression on me as a kid when I saw it for the first time at the age of 14. Those poor Germans! They never knew what hit them!

[@KristerAndersson-nc8zo]

That is because it is an American Movie,. Germans in general are pictured as idiots, Think about it unsupported armour against infantry, they woudl be dead in moments.

[@micksquizzy]

Krister Andersson It's a Yugoslavian movie, thank you very much. Plus this is like 20 miles behind lines, why would they need tank support when an attack from the enemy is very unlikely?

[@KristerAndersson-nc8zo]

***** Well Yugoslavian-American, American actors and producers, shot in Yugoslavia, anyhow this is supposed to be in France late 1944 so since they are Germans and apparenlty does not have a single panzerfaust.

[@davvvvo]

Krister Andersson and neither do they seem to have grenades either.

[@rudolftrost3534]

Hank Williams hit them, way before his time. That would freak everyone out. Good Movie, however.

[@elicharlton6397]

I loved it how they had jolly music on whilst tanks were blowing people up and machine guns tearing people apart

[@ironanvil1]

Best bit is still the instrumental of "I've Been Working On The Railroad" starting up as they drive off...

[@larsuppling981]

ironanvil1 then think on the fact that someone in the tank actuslly had to put the record on the player for it to start at that time.. so someone of the crewmembers actually thought it through and put that on at that time... long live immersion. XD

[@tlv156]

0:28 I love how Oddball has to stop his guys and go over the strategy here. Especially when it's basically shoot anything that freaking moves while causing as much collateral damage as possible. LMFAO!!! I love Oddball man. Epic scene.

[@FerretJohn]

Never take things for granted in combat, that's how you get killed. You always go over the play just before engaging, even if all the players are familiar with the playbook

[@larsuppling981]

"If it moves it dies, if it dies you move on.."

[@AndyYankee17]

No great plan has ever survived the first shot of battle.

[@Jim-Tuner]

They needed the plan so they didn't shoot each other or get it each others way.

[@TheDealer6373]

Tanks are big and slow. They need a direction to be in so they don't hit each other and make sure each area is covered. There was 3 videos in the russia ukraine war that shows what happens with no basic communication. Two of the 3 videos the people died as a result. The other one the tank crashed into there own people.

[@gordonthompson7131]

Kelly's heroes is one of my all time favourite movies 😊👍

[@wrongway1100]

You know I just read the entire comment section. Why the hell is my generation so over critical about everything? It was a comedy.

[@Useaname]

wrongway1100 gamers and reenactors. Also the internet makes everyone an armchair general.

[@Fr1thar]

@@Useaname as a gamer, i grew up with this movie so idc

[@TheBishopconrad]

Also how do you know they are this generation?

[@666thornton]

SGT Oddball, a true American Tanker hero. Patton himself would have only reprimanded him no more than 4 times and threatened to fire him twice.

[@dciccantelli]

The mellow ballad playing while they're destroying the whole thing is hilarious ! At the end when the speakers start blaring a hick country version of "I've been working on the railroad", I cracked up. Comedy gold....!

[@DylansPen]

This is mostly a comedy but the battle scenes are some of the best in any war movie. They seem very authentic.

[@russianproud4776]

Love how there is literally chaos happening while a slow, calm song is playing in the background. Wish all armies did this

[@maxmulsanne7054]

This and Apocalypse Now were great movies by adding music during the chaos of war.

[@jephrokimbo9050]

well you see, it kind of calms us down. Sergeant Oddball

[@chiefslief1886]

Good Old Country Music never dies!!! ;-))

[@Kranford]

Did something like this in Halo 2 the other day while crossing the suspension bridge in a tank. it was more hilarious than it had any right to be.

[@KenWheelerWhistler]

I love watching this movie with my family, it's a lot more fun to watch than Fury!😊

[@rossvoorheis2391]

Imagine being some foot soldier just... going about your day safely behind the lines and suddenly you hear roaring American V8s and weird music as all hell breaks loose... Oddball's strategy was tried and true.

[@andolas100]

thirty odd years I have been watching this and I still love it now

[@DoubleVisionandco]

And as they leave they play "I been working on the railroad" lmao

[@Useaname]

excellent....

[@grahamwilkes4062]

yes how good a timeing is that

[@a2r7n6]

Great scene! The music just adds to it.

[@Gordon-oy4do]

This is my favourite scene in this film an absolute brilliant film too

[@caras2004]

"All for the love of sunshine" Hank Williams Jr.

[@alvarobortoletto9053]

Great movie !

[@frankcastle7036]

My favorite part is “bring’em around hard!”

[@purplesword5536]

Donald Sutherland steals this movie as a hippie tank commander...

[@fattscott1181]

This scene is Great! You've got Total carnage going on, an the song Thats playing from the loudspeaker is Brilliant. Best scene in the movie. Imo

[@akula_9784]

My favorite scene from this movie, attack with músic.

The real comedy is the weight of the gold bars at the end of the film.

[@DrCruel]

I do this in World of Tanks all the time.

[@peterson7082]

I normally play that or papers please theme for soviet tanks

[@mattmenefee3889]

How can you not like this scene??? Oddball proving his worth, real Sherman’s...it’s 1970 meets 1944, baby.

[@rjillidge3]

All for the love of Sunshine which is playing in this scene was Hank Williams Jr's first number one country hit.

[@JustSomeGuy489]

God this movie is so good.

[@212th]

JustSomeGuy This is one of my favourite scenes in any film. Ever

[@MOVIMKR7]

one of my favorite movies, old classics rule.

[@doughesson]

+Warren Kelly I have a friend who went back into the Army after Sept 11 and got his old job TC'ing an Abrahms.He said that he always wanted to do this scene in real life. Sadly,he was killed in a laager as he trained a new driver to park a tank and the guy pinched him between his tank and another.'

[@frankcastle7036]

RIP Oddball

[@ranceoyendelapena7170]

GREATER THAN FURY

[@The3Lego3Freak]

100% not agreed

[@scifihorspiele7282]

+The3Lego3Freak This is satire, Fury is pure shit

[@The3Lego3Freak]

+SciFi Hörspiele haha you know fury? Yea it's really bad its just got the worlds only fully working Tiger and its the only moive EVER to have a fully working Tiger in it.......

[@mrastleysghost]

+The3Lego3Freak yeah but Kelly's Heroes has Oddball in it.

[@ranceoyendelapena7170]

Fury is full of shit but this one has some comedy in it and i will only agree on fury if they add a pershing or firefly

[@Go4Corvette]

My Dad had 52 missions in B17 bombers two of his brothers were with Patton and one killed RIP o7. Loved this movie as a kid.

[@ladysnake8449]

Oddball is right, the music really does calm you down in the heat of battle!

[@jcdenton7891]

so many positive waves man!

[@greglaplante7593]

‘“ ok what’s the Sherman’s commander name? “ A guy named oddball, ODDBALL , He a freak! “

[@nighthawkdutchchameleon9815]

Oddballs weirdness tells you he saw to much combat

[@dustypluskrat7423]

Nighthawk Dutch chameleon especially when we first meet him hearing his previous CO was ‘decapitated’ by an 88, just as the poor fellow in Fury

[@TheJunglist78]

The best ww2 movie ever made in the 70's

[@torgarsteinbru3591]

It IS the best ww2 movie

[@EricK-eg4zp]

Love this movie..Kicks MAJOR ass.

[@billmers3219]

Eric K never ever does it get old watching

[@HYPNOTICVIDEO]

Yes it really is a great movie.

[@pyrotechaholic]

They literally did that all the why back in 1972 with nothing fake. It's to be respected!!!!

[@peterson7082]

Define nothing fake. The _Tiger_ used was not real.

[@eliaspeter7689]

@@peterson7082 I think he meant practical effects, like the explosions and stuff, and while the Tiger was not a real Tiger tank, it was still a real tank with a Tiger mockup.

[@oldreliable40]

good movie. oddball ur the best!!!!

[@navelriver]

I like how Whisky's tank rocks and judders on the wooden poles starting at 1:50, giving a dramatic impression of the weight of the vehicle.

[@JamesTaylor-yh9rl]

this scene is why im hooked on tanks

[@factorylad5071]

Best to quote Telly Savalas on this " Yugoslavia was a place you could enjoy yourself without having a good time."

[@fredr4258]

There's more funnies in this movie than this and if you don't understand it's a satire comedy, you miss the point and don't get all the giggles you should. This though to me is the most hilarious with the music Oddball plays! LMAO! Fist time I saw this scene I had an accident from laughing so damned hard!

[@matthewhaines811]

great movie.

[@orgami100]

It's a Satire like M.A.S.H so don't get all fizzled..

[@yukitwirly3044]

Satire does not get any less funnier if soldiers actually acted like soldiers.

[@orgami100]

We did.. where do you think FTA came from..

[@edwardpate6128]

Oddball portrayed as kind of a flake but when he went into combat he was all over it!

[@MrYallack]

51 year old piece of film amazdrrrrrrrrrr boooommmm

[@HappyDude1]

what is the name of this song ? 3:25

[@orsonincharge4879]

What are they playing the music on ?

[@purplesword5536]

Totally awesome scene...

[@magnificentfailure2390]

RIP Donald Sutherland.

[@brettlloyd4446]

Kellys heroes has some great action scenes, movie had same director and crew who worked on where eagles dare

[@SheldonAdama17]

Those Germans really got hit with those negative waves, man

[@bookscheckmout]

My favorite scene 😍

[@MattTrudden]

Now that's what I call Tanking!!!!!

[@rushb45]

Tanks and trains what's not to love. I wish World of Tanks and Call of Duty had something like this in it.

[@MrBarrsy68]

adrianpfister91 Quit with those negative waves baby !!!!

[@panzerwolf494]

Best scene Evah!

[@blacklabrador1580]

Kelly's Heroes was and still is an all time classic.

[@blockmasterscott]

Odd Ball was all business here!

[@kyrozudesoya1829]

Like despite him being a hippie he still knows what he is doing enough to give coherent orders to his men before they go into the shit.

[@tomasinacovell4293]

Wouldn't had been cool if they could have had heavy metal music playing on the PA in that time when nobody had ever heard any of it before.

[@purplesword5536]

Love oddball man what a great nutty dude..Love to hang with a guy like him..

[@theblueknight9746]

Best movie of all time.

[@shawndarling5855]

exceptional movie

[@waynejones205]

IDK why, but I imagine Bob Marley's I'M STILL WAITING playing over the the loudspeaker here. But Oddball is the main and shining Anachronism in the movie!!❤

[@Timmyboy505]

When the tanks play I’ve been working on the railroad had me in utter stitches from laughter

[@charlessedlacek5754]

Woof woof... that's my other dog imitation. Just the sheer psychotic glee on gavin McLeod's face as he slaughters people with a machine gun, cigar in his mouth, is epic.

[@jephrokimbo9050]

woaff , woafff , woaffff THAT IS MY DOG IMITATION!

[@mickywanderer8276]

"I've been working on the railroad". Cute! 😆

[@jamesmccutchan1745]

Best tank scene ever.

[@Cruor34]

1:08 what gun is on that Sherman? looks too long to be the original 75mm, but it doesn't have the muzzle break of the long 76mm.

[@Nachtsider]

Oddball explains in the film that the gun is a standard 75mm that he sneakily lengthened with a piece of pipe so the enemy would be fooled into thinking it's a larger calibre weapon.

[@Cruor34]

@@Nachtsider I know the scene you are talking about but if memory serves (it has been a long time) he was referring to a pipe on the side of the tank. The main cannon looks to be a real gun, you can even see the rifling grooves on it. I looked it up, it is the 76mm but it's a version without the muzzle break.

[@KrillLiberator]

I love the fact it ends with "I've been working on the Railroad".

[@johnashley9675]

No cgi.

[@mdteletom1288]

Despite this movie being a satire this battle scene is very well staged and shows the Sherman tank was very effective in the role it was designed for.

[@tanith117]

When you find the enemies forward staging area in Company of heroes.

[@66secularist]

I do find the music ... calming.