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Tao symbol camera7/2/2023 ![]() troops had perished in the conflict, including more than 6,000 that year. The WWII films debuted during a time when protests against the Vietnam War were raging. In addition to “Kelly’s Heroes” and “M*A*S*H,” movie goers went to see “Patton”, “Tora! Tora! Tora!,” and “Catch-22,″ among many released that year. ![]() The year 1970 was a bonanza for war flicks. But afterwards, when people speak to me about it, it always pleases me. “About it being a favorite? You don’t think about how it’s going to be received when you’re doing it. Job, are killed - one by a mine and two by German small arms fire. Sutherland was referring to a scene - about 70 minutes into the film - where three of their band of burglarious brothers - Michael Clark as Pvt. Brian fought it, didn’t want it, but money shouted so Brian ended up giving him a minefield.” At least they didn’t die in the original script, but then some idiot producer, (now dead himself), who insisted that there had to be deaths. “My first impression was that it was hysterically funny. Sutherland, who turned 85 on July 17, said that while he instantly loved the script, he didn’t realize at the time just how endearing the movie would become. The bigger part was that I loved Oddball. But that’s part of what sent me to MGM and Brian Hutton’s office. So I figured maybe I’d not get a chance to play this kind of a fellow again. “I’d just finished ‘M*A*S*H’ and my beloved producer Ingo Preminger told me my life was going to change when it came out. ![]() Kelly hatches a plot to steal the gold after learning from a captured Nazi officer about a cache of bars in a bank behind enemy lines. In a movie about a group of soldiers in WWII plotting to sneak behind German lines and steal $16 million in gold bars from a bank Oddball was the anachronistic long-haired, bearded hippy, whose introduction comes as he is interrupted from a dalliance atop some supply tent crates.Įastwood plays the eponymous Kelly, a former lieutenant busted down to private for giving the orders to attack the wrong hill, getting many of his men killed in the process. ![]() Played by Donald Sutherland, the character quickly stood out as a favorite among an amazing cast featuring the likes of Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O’Connor and Gavin MacLeod, who played Moriarity, Oddball’s constant, dour foil. Oddball (no first or last name given) helped make “Kelly’s Heroes,” which premiered July 23, 1970, a continuing hit among troops and veterans, especially those who served in tanks. ![]()
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