KELLY HEROES (1970) * MOVIE REACTION* FIRST TIME WATCHING* WHY IS HE SO RECKLESS!?
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2021
- Whats up Gays and Gals!? Welcome or welcome back to my channel! Today I am watching a film that was recommended to me after one of my reactions to a Clint Eastwood film. I have been on a beige of his movies lately . He is the ultimate badass when it comes to a good old action movies. You will see in my reaction how much fun I had while watching this movie
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One of the best war comedies ever made. The cast is top shelf.
And some of the best quotable lines. "want to hear my other dog imitation?" Lol
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@@coeusdarksoul2855 Operation Petticoat
@@zzzkoszzz Hogan's Heroes
Absolutely my friend.
Great cast. Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin MacLeod, Carroll O’Conner. Fun movie.
And Mulligan was played by the brother of Telly Savalas, George Savalas
who loves ya baby
Other great Eastwood films include Where Eagles Dare- kind of a who done it war rescue., And Firefox - a cold war era jet hiest
"All those burning bridges". The song stuck with me from childhood when I saw this movie at the cinema 1970's.
'Burning Bridges' is the title by The Mike Curb Congregation. 'All those...' is a line, not the title. Great song though.
@@michaelanderson7715 The "All those burning bridges" line from the song I quoted as a reflection of my own life.
@@mazza4190 ok
@@mazza4190 it's universal, we all have regrets about stupid things we did when we were young, when we decided to go against doing something that could have made our future lives so much better.
@@captainnerd6452 I am where I am supposed to be and without regret. Burned many a bridge to reach this point. Closed many a door.
Donald Sutherland who played Oddball got so sick during this movie that he nearly died. He contracted spinal meningitis and was taken to hospital for several weeks. He said at some point that he saw the "white light" and technically did die for a few seconds but they brought him back.
The movie also does a number on the officers and rear echelon people. If you read enough about the war and especially memoirs by enlisted men and officers generally Captain and below, you can get the picture of where this was coming from.
I hadn’t heard that before
It was the positive vibes that revived him
@@despacitodaniel801 I hate to say, but now negative waves just won
The nuts thing about this film, it is a straight up comedy action movie but is also one of the most historically accurate in terms of equipment and tactics war movies around. A truly first class film.
Yep -- of course hippies and Hank Williams Jr were a little out of place, but otherwise ...
@@dougearnest7590 --- Yes, but the technical verisimilitude makes it happen for the viewer and the military aficionado.
What makes it even more incredible is that it actually happened, the theft was not actually discovered until the 1990s when the Soviet Union fell, they released formerly classified German reports. The army launched a full investigation but it seems no one in the units mentioned in the German documents could remember anything, though several had very nice "pensions".
Taking the yacht wasn't considered looting as it was categorized as a war prize. Breaking into someone's home and taking all the jewelry, etc would be looting. That's why the gold was such a tempting target because it belonged to the Germans, was behind the front lines, so it couldn't be considered theft.
Yes, taking the yacht was looting. Stealing any private property is looting. They were also in France, not Germany, so he was looting an ally.
The last I heard, the yacht was still in use in the Tennessee River near Jasper, TN. The officer who was sent to investigate the incident was the father of a close friend of mine. The fact that the AWOL officer who took the yacht was the first cousin of the officer sent to investigate had nothing to do with the fact that the officer could find no evidence of any theft of gold or yacht, as he noted in his official report. Officially, none of this ever happened. Unofficially, one of the soldiers involved became a scriptwriter in Hollywood.
That's a garbage explanation. Maintland was a Captain, who had connections. It was looting.
No, it was looting. The difference is that it was an officer whose FIL with familial connections to a general. Rank hath its privileges.
To the Victor belongs the spoils " - Robert Baccala
5:30 - So happy you were on board saying "I would go for the gold, not by myself, but I would go for it" That's the heart of the movie! And only 5 mins in!!
Oh YES, bro, FINALLY a reaction to Kelly's Heroes! You rock man! Clearly, you're not with those negative waves, man! Woof Woof! Hahahha I love Oddball / Donald Sutherland. Now remember 16 million in 1945! Also it was cool that the german panzer-tank general was just a human being, and when they told him about the money in that bank he didn't hesitate.
Not a general. Probably Captain or Major at most. Generals lead divisions, corps, or Armies.
...Always with the negative ways, Moriarty!!
Yeah, a tad Vietnam for the time - but holy cow, this movie was 1970! Ahead of its time in more than one way...
@@neilgriffiths6427 But that's the joke! Oddball is obviously a Vietnam soldier caricature, smoking pot and everything, but it's WWII! That's the whole joke.
Just laying back, drinking some wine, enjoying some rays. Talk about positive waves!
Oh my gosh...somebody is actually reacting to the best war/heist/comedy ever made? I cannot click like fast enough!!!
I mean, so many positive waves...how can we lose? 😜💯😂
Fr such a great classic
Yeah I clicked Like immediately. Absolutely love this film. Hugely underrated.
as long as you're not some New Yorker who thinks a Hero is some kind of weird sandwich 😋
@@kingscorpion7346 Nah...just some nut who takes on tree Tigers! 😂
To a New Yorker like you, a gyro is some kind of weird sandwich!
I'm an old Marine Corps tanker from the 80s and 90s. This is one of mine and my ex's favorite movies.
After we split up and she married a much better guy than me, we lost touch. About 10 years later and some detective work, I tracked them down a couple of states over. She was running a hunting/fishing store.
I show up and ask the clerk if the owner was who I thought. He says yes, so I tell him to go tell her that "Oddball is here with three Shermans". He does and she comes barreling out and gives me a big bear hug. She knew immediately who it had to be.
A year later, I'm at her daughter's wedding. My ex shows up driving a shiny brand new Jeep that her husband bought for her, one of those crappy new ones that doesn't even look like a Jeep anymore and fall apart in a stiff breeze. She's happy as a clam showing it off to me and before I can think my stupid mouth says, "Do you want me to be happy for you or do you want me to tell you the truth?"
She stops and gives me That Look and says, "Always with the negative waves with you. Always with the negative waves!"
Her husband's a lucky man.
Great story, my man. 🙂
Finally someone reacts to Kellys Hero’s, one of my all time favorites.
The graffiti symbol left in the bank is the "Kilroy was here" symbol. Which was a
meme among allied soldiers under multiple names at the time. It went away after the 50s.
You should also consider watching The Dirty Dozen.
In this movie, when the guys are walking up to the bank the music is set up to sound like a spaghetti western.
You would like those too, I suspect. Fist Full of Dollars, and so on.
At one point, the Nazis were convinced Kilroy was some sort of spy behind the lines leaving markers for the Allies. The Abwehr had operatives trying to find Kilroy and eliminate him.
The Dirty Dozen should definitely get a reaction.
I met Kilroy's nephew. Kilroy was a naval inspector in Philadelphia Navy Yard. He inspected welding in compartments in ships and being so many areas he chalked his name where he had been. So that is how" Kilroy was here" came along from WW2. This is no shit. We had him sign out meal shack at one of the Reading Airshow Weekend. We have met some of the coolest people /veterans being a WW2 living historian.
One of my favorite classics, set in WW2 but thoroughly a product of Vietnam
And in case you're wondering, $16,000,000 in 1944 would be about $249,000,000 in 2021
THE GREAT ESCAPE & THE DIRTY DOZEN ARE A FEW GOOD ONES TOO.
Dirty Dozen yes!
Devil's Brigade is great too! :)
A Bridge Too Far as well
Great movie. One of Clint Eastwood’s best and highly underrated. Carol O’Connor steals every scene he’s in. His blustery character is why he got the part of Archie Bunker on ‘All In the Family’. BTW $16 million in 1945 is about $151 million today.
His performance is one of the reasons this movie is so good.
And you got Oddball too. Donald Sutherland kills it in this role as well.
Not to mention that gold in 1945 was 34$ per oz.
Various references I consulted ranged from over $234 million to just under $243 million.
@@dougearnest7590 my attitude is like Kelly. Why quibble there was enough for all of them!
I remember seeing Kelly's Heroes in the theater as a kid. Such a fun movie!
Of course the plot is ludicrous and it suffers from being made in the 1970's. Oddball was portrayed as a proto hippie type in the '40's, which does seem extremely far fetched.
Despite some bizarre choices, the movie is a hoot. Some great comedic proformances from Don Rickels, Harry Dean Stanton, and Stuart Margolies. Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas are the tough, no nonsense leaders of this rag tag entrepreneur soldiers.
I love Carroll O'Connor's Patton-like character, he plays it all out. The closing theme, Burning Bridges is such a cool tune.
Or... Oddball could be more of a beatnik which started just a few years after the war. In any case he was always my fav in this move along with Clint of course.
Proto Beat, but there were plenty of "Bohemian" types before the war.
Finally someone rediscovering this classic! It's a muthah-beautiful movie!
If you enjoyed this there are 3 more WWII classics from the same period you should see: The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, and The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Don't forget, Secret War of Harry Frigg and Von Ryan's Express
and Where Eagles Dare
Good list
The Battle of Britain, The Cruel Sea, Mister Roberts
There is also "A Bridge Too Far". Don't forget that. Just like "Bridge over River Kwai" and possibly some of the others?? "A Bridge Too Far" is based on real events and to certain degree, real people too.
Best line, from Oddball: “To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some kind of weird sandwich.”
"..not some nut who takes on 3 Tigers.."
The captain was the General's nephew, and the one holding the packages. When the General was listening in on the radio.
Your reaction to that Panzer Commander joining the team and shooting a hole in the wall was the same as mine way back. I'm hard to make laugh in movies but that one gets me every time.
Great film, I watched this loads as a kid, one of my dad's favourite films, the iconic scene when Teli Savallis , Clint Eastwood and Donald Sutherland walk down the street to face the Tank. Lol. And Donald Sutherlands saying, Less of the negative waves. Pmsl.
One of my favourite movies of all time since I was about 10 or 11. So many classic quotable lines.
You have no idea how pumped I was to see a reactor cover this movie. Love your content!
The fun part and this will blow your mind, it’s based on a true story. Very loosely but a seed of truth.
13:40 after all these years, I still follow Don Rickles' advise when I go to the store!
This is a crazy-good movie, saw it back in the day. Love it!
Future Blues Bros. / Trading Places director John Landis was a gofer on this movie.. a young assistant getting coffee basically. It was shot in Eastern Europe, and he witnessed a funeral strange vertical burial... because it was suspected this person was a vampire. He used that as the inspiration for his script, An American Werewolf in London, which hed make in 1981.
As recently as 2003, there was a verified 'vampire execution' in Romania where people in a village exhumed a body and drove a stake into its heart. Yugoslavia, where this was filmed, is the birthplace of the legends that form our modern conception of the vampire, with Jure Grando, who died in 1656 and was then blamed for vampire attacks in his community.
A great classic movie been waiting for you to react to some older films. 👍🏻
I’d recommend the movie Patton, another great classic.
I first saw this as the edited broadcast version they showed on TV in the mid 80s and now, nearly 40 years later, I still can't get over Carroll O'Connor. You wear your STARS on your BATHROBE? 😆
Sherman’s against tigers- that’s some serious balls!
1 Sherman against 3 tigers- are you out of your mind?
Oddball- “but we’ve got positive waves on our side…”
You’re hitting all the classics brother...I just have to get off work to enjoy the reaction!
If Clint Eastwood in WWII interests you, there’s one other movie made around the same time that’s worth it: Where Eagles Dare. This movie’s a comedy, but Where Eagles Dare is a spy/war thriller, the kind of thing you hear Ian Fleming and Christopher Lee would’ve been involved in in WWII.
Oh hell yes! One my favorite all time movies!!
I recommend A Bridge too Far. Amazing cast.
You can just say, "Starring every current actor in 1977." Lol. You're right though, great film.
Recommend "Space Cowboys". Eastwood and Sutherland reunion.
Great choice! A heist movie disguised as war movie!
Let's go! This one of my all time favorite classic war films. I always feel good watching this movie. I appreciate it's sly humor. Donald Sutherland nearly steals the whole show as Oddball. They were going for a Vietnam war vibe in a WWII setting. Also, just 1 million dollars in 1945 was worth 15 million today. So their heist would be worth nearly 240 million today! Hell, I'd be happy with 1 million dollars today. Lol After this movie the same director got Eastwood again in WHERE EAGLES DARE, another favorite classic war film of mine as well as THE DIRTY DOZEN. Honorable mention to GUNS OF THE NAVARONE. Happy watching, see you in the next video. Stay away from them negative vibes, brother. 😆
This is a classic. Love Oddball. Miss Don Rickles.
"A DEAL deal!"
I love this movie and have watched it many times. Another great older war movie is "Where Eagles Dare". Clint Eastwood was also in this movie which came out in 1968 and also stars Richard Burton who was a big movie star in the 50's, 60's & 70's. This movie has a decent amount of action as well. Definitely worth a watch and is about 2.5 hour movie but worth it and a great war movie.
Guns of Navarone which came out in 1961 is also a great war movie which stars Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn also huge movie stars in the 50's, 60's & 70's.
Years since I watched this movie, forgot how good it was!!!!!!!!!!! Would love to see you react to 'A bridge to far' .
@two bob....Also a great war movie.
I would love to see reactions to a couple other great war movies@ from the 60's like "Guns of Navarone" & "Where Eagles Dare" which Clint Eastwood is in as well. Those are also great war films and no one reviews them because they are beyond the scope of a lot of these younger YTber's. Also, "The Great Escape" about Allied soldiers breaking out of a POW camp is worth a watch as well and is based on a true story.
Captain Maitland knew or at least suspected that it was his platoon that was there since on the radio he heard the names Kelly and Big Joe. He may have recognized their voices as well. He had no idea why they were there though, instead of resting. As such, he couldn't tell the General since he had no proof and he had no explanation for why his men would launch an attack on their own. At the end, he is wandering through the bank looking for any clues as to *why* then attack happened and the 'Kilroy was Here' graffiti was a surprise.
Donald Sutherlands character of Oddball is an excellent performance. He is more like a Vietnam war hippy and seems anachronistic for WW2, but in actuality, hipsters and marijuana use was known in the late '30s and early '40s so it is possible someone like him could exist.
This movie is my favorite war movie and in my top 5 of all movies. My favorite movie of all is "Big Trouble in Little China". Favorite western is "Outlaw Josey Wales" which you also reviewed.
The tanks used were quite good. The "Tigers" were T-34/85s with a lot of sheet metal to make them look like Tigers. As a kid, I thought that they were actual Tigers since other movies like "Patton" and "Battle of the Bulge" just used modern tanks and didn't try to mock anything up. The M4s were actual Shermans, but NOT war Shermans. They were surplus M4A3s that had been modified by replacing the 75mm gun with a 76mm and given to Yugoslavia after the war as foreign aid.
Maitland was the Company commander of the squad. He was also the nephew of the General. He recognized what was going on by the names.
My dad showed me this movie at an age of 8 or so, and ever since, this has always been one of my favorite movies - Its got it all
A true gem, that should be more known than it is
Love this movie. I watched it for the first time when I was just a kid with my grandpa. Every once in a while we always watched it again together, it basically became a tradition between us. It's been a while since we last did that, but I hope to do so soon (:
One of my all time favorite movies, glad you got to watch! I don't even care that they put hippies in 1944 Normandy. Lol. Great reaction man!
I loved this movie as a kid. Saw it when I was about ten years old in the 80's. Prefect caper, Clint, Telly, Don and Donald.
watched this as a kid. my dad still says "booker...did you loose my ariel photographs?" haha
You should also notice that all the key players in the heist are SNCOs. IE, no one was a commissioned Officer. They were all enlisted ranks.
Even the German tank commander was a Sgt. He would have been a bit leery anyway at that stage of the war.
They say in the movie that Kelly used to be a lieutenant, but he was ordered to attack the wrong hill. His men were wiped out, and he was busted down to private as a scapegoat.
@@greenmonsterprod but, he did show that he had the same respect for rank that the rest did.
He also seem to fit in well with the rest of the recon platoon he was posted to.
Though he did show good leadership qualities when came to manipulating the personalities in the unit.
He definitely didn't have the same background as the captain who was filling the commander slot on that platoon's Manning board.
@@darrylhilbig6459 Maitland was lucky nobody in the platoon fragged him.
@@greenmonsterprod I don't think fragging officers was a thing in WW2.
After all, Maitland seemed to stay out of the platoon Sgt's way in the running of the platoon. Also, the Sgt could actually get stuck into him pretty hard.
So if he got dragged, they may end up with some newbie trying to make a name for himself rather someone quite happy to coast along.
After all, "better the devil you know, than the devil you don't".
@@darrylhilbig6459 Big Joe did tell the guys to forget trying to kill Maitland, or trying to assault the nurses at the field hospital. But they soon got busy with the bank heist.
Great reaction! I have been waiting for someone to take on this movie. Another movie that you would probably like is "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming!" Perfect for your sense of humor.
"Emergency! Everybody to get from street!"
Good movie. Cross of iron amazing film to watch or hacksaw ridge another amazing film
I love a good war movie. This is a good war and anti-war movie.
I'm glad you reacted to it. Good show.
The general, Caroll O'Connor, gives a hilarious performance.
My favorite set of scenes are where he gets involved in the situation.
Oddly, this film always reminds me of the original version of The Longest Yard, which is not a war movie at all. The 1974 version. You should IMO put that on your react list.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for reacting to a movie in this era and genre. It's really cool to give movies like this a shot. A lot of reactors don't, and I know why, but I appreciate it.
You got a new subscriber here.
My favorite movie, EVER!
Thanks bro.
I love to watch this movie at least once or twice a year because it's so well done and entertaining. One of my favorite war movies with a great cast of actors.
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I watched this movie in a cigar shop with a couple vets. When we met Oddball and his tank crew, lazing around, drinking wine, the vets couldn't hold back and tell me that is EXACTLY like what armor crews are like! LMAO
As a tanker, nothing was funnier than when Oddball said they were just kicking back, eating cheese and drinking some wine.
Every Tanker who joins the army wants to be Oddball.
Of the major actors, only Clint and Donald are still with us. But right to the end, you could get a big smile out of Don Rickles if you called him "Crapgame"...and then he's still call you a hockey puck...and you felt like it was a blessing from the Lord.
26.28 About the captain, When a major general is your uncle, and commands the Division, you can get around things....and he recognised his first sergents name, "Big Joe", off the radio in the General's headquarters.
I first saw this when I was 7 my dad was a 1st Sgt and we watched it when he was on duty one night in the company motor pool sitting in a army jeep I was so amazed , my dad was a real GI Joe and I was so proud.
This one , The Dirty Dozen and A Bridge too far are my favs….followed by Force Ten from Navaronne, Patton, Fury and Inglorious Bastards.
Great reaction! ❤️🎥❤️
Liked Oddball because he was crazy but not insane and enjoyed life even under fire.
It's to bad that I can't give you a hundred thumbs up for this one
The blue "crosshair" shoulder patch indicates Kelly (Clint Eastwood) and his men are from the 35th Infantry Division. It's a National Guard division, comprised of guardsmen from Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas. In other words, we hayseeds are a greedy bunch and proud of it.
Thanks for reacting to this gem. Always been one of my favorites.
Great heist film with a back drop of war.
Glad you are reacting to this classic. This is the 1st reaction I have seen for this film.
If you want to see more movies like this, then check out The Dirty Dozen, Tora Tora Tora, A Bridge Too Far, The Great Escape, The Big Red One, The Tuskegee Airmen, The Memphis Belle (has actual combat footage from inside the bomber that they used in the movie), and Force 10 From Navarone.
One my my all time fav movies. Nice to see someone else discover it.
One of my faves, thanks Devin!! Woof, woof...
Great movie......
Oddball is king ✌😎
Hey Devin,
You gotta do these classic's, some of Hollywood's best 😉
The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 )
Patton ( 1970 )
The Great Escape ( 1963 )
The Guns Of Navarone ( 1961 )
Love the channel man.....
best of luck going forward 👍☺
Thanks for doing one of my favorite films! Woof Woof...🐕
I love when veterans slip up and use military lingo without realizing it Devin said "they was in TDY" and used the term "unit", thank you for your service.
There's a Japanese anime series called Girls und Panzer that contains numerous references to Kelly's Heroes. At one point some of the characters are actually watching the DVD of the movie, and a scene from it is reproduced in animated form on their TV screen.
Oh yeah, Girls Tankery is the most prestigious after school activity there is.
The cpt was...preserving a significantly important local artifact.
Man i love this movie. I live in Sweden and back in 89' our house burned severly so we had to stay at our uncles home while he was in Lebanon fighting in the UN forces. He had like every clint eastwood movie on vhs made at home. This movie became my favourite and also me evolving into a huge Clint Eastwood fan. I must have seen this movie over and over endless times. It made my young years good :). Cheers.
My most favorite of all WW2 movies is the this classic comedy with all star cast and the most original plot ! Seen at age 14, this movie NEVER gets old. Crap game and Odd Ball, Big Joe, Kelly and Mulligan, and Carol O'Conner (Archie Bunker) as PATTON ! It doesn't get any better than that !
When adjusted for inflation, and the cost of gold today. The value of that gold would have been around $350,000,000.
For that kind of money, I could be a hero for a few days
My favourite all time film, so glad someone is doing a reaction to this.
Harry Dean Stanton was in everything good. This movie, Cool Hand Luke, Alien, Dillinger...the list is long and amazing.
Christine!
My Grandma bought me this movie fore Christmas back in 2000. It was the time I really got into John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood films. As well as westerns, and war films.
Awesome war action/comedy movie. If you like the "Kelly's Heroes" movie, there's a more modern day movie, with kind of a similar theme/plot to it, taking place during the 1st Gulf War called "Three Kings". I think you would like it. if you digged this movie. Do a review sometime. Cheers!
YES!!! the movie that made me fall in love with the M4 Sherman tank when I was just a lad!
You're great Devin. Time to do "The Dirty Dozen"
14000 gold bars would be worth hundreds of millions in today`s prices.
Clint Eastwood always maintained that this would have been an even better movie if he'd been allowed to edit it. It would certainly be interesting to see what his cut would have looked like.
Remember watching this in the late 90s on TV.... Good times and still one of the movies I watch late at night when I can't sleep
One of my all time favorite movies! I just hit subscribe for you!!
John Landis was an 18 year old grip or "gopher" on location with this film and actually WROTE the first draft of "An American Werewolf In London" while there. It just didn't get made until 1981.
Believe Landis said he's one of the nuns walking when the tank passes. Believe all the nuns were crew guys.
@@raycebannon6374 Cool 😎👍
I am glad you watched this sir, great cast great movie. One of the best films made , no cgi back then.
I'd also recommend the movie M*A*S*H.
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Lol nice one of my all time favorites lol OddBall is my boy
I remember a TV presentation of this movie, where they had a military guy as a commenter, during breaks. And it was pointed out that the 'getaway; from the bank would have been nigh impossible. Why? They left in a GERMAN truck. If it would have been spotted by an Allied fighter-bomber, it would have been destroyed.
There were a couple of other issues...was it dental gold?[from gold teeth...extracted from Holocaust victims, after execution]
And, as a minor point, what would $16 million of gold, in 1944, be worth, in 2022?
Finally, what do Kelly's Heros do afterwards? Desert the Army? Go back into the 'line', as if nothing happened? [and, if they did that, what do they do with the gold?]
Best Teen inspiring movie. And I saw it as a teen, big screen. Still a favorite.
Clint Eastwood is a legend even in comedy.
Hehe, great reactions - pretty soon we find out - this isn't a war movie, it's a bank heist! Great stuff.
The artillery officer who apologized to Kelly was played by Telley Savalas’s brother.
Great choice .. I LITTERALLY just bought this on Amazon 4 days ago