Kellys heroes deleted scenes
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Looking Back at Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
Kelly’s Heroes is a classic Men on a Mission movie that stars Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland and Don Rickles who are in the midst of World War II. They are part of an array of American soldiers who get inside information from a drunk German officer about millions of dollars worth of gold hidden on enemy soil. Kelly (Clint Eastwood), a private with the platoon, devises a plan to sneak past the German officers to steal the loot for his crew. They recruit more men and set their plan into action. Despite several casualties, the men are determined to press forward, even if it means striking a deal with the opposing army.
While recovering from my flu last weekend I thought Sunday seemed like the perfect day to wallow in this wartime-set classic which to this day remains one of my favourite movies. Although Clint Eastwood is essentially the lead his character doesn’t have much in the way of dialogue and it’s the rest of the crew who provide the one-liners especially Telly Savalas who is ideally cast as the Sergeant with Donald Sutherland stealing every scene as Oddball.
The action scenes are huge with massive explosions and edge of your seat tension as we wonder if our boys will make it through enemy lines in one piece.
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1. The movie was made in Yugoslavia because of its plethora of WWII era military equipment (and parts of the country still looked like they did when they were rubbleized in the war). Tito’s army provided a bunch of Sherman M4A3(75)Ws. The three Tigers were converted T-34s that had been used in the movie “The Battle of Neretva”. There are 230 Yugo soldiers in the scene where Kelly goes to see Crapgame for the first time. That’s a Yugo SOKO 522 trainer standing in for an T-6 Texan standing in for a P-47 Thunderbolt.
2. Eastwood was attracted to the anti-war vibe of the script and was distressed with the final product. He blamed it on the studio’s cuts, but director Hutton viewed the movie as a comedy from the start. Eastwood was particularly upset with the cutting of a scene where Kelly and Big Joe discuss the incident that got Kelly demoted for refusing to order a suicide attack. The scene included discussion of the nature of the war and was the only scene where Eastwood got to act showily.
3. The screenwriter, Troy Kennedy Martin, was also angry with the decision to up the funny and decrease the pacifism. He wanted a scene where the platoon boards a tr