Kelly's Heroes

...through the eyes of a rough-and-tumble intergalactic foreign legion. Imagine a much grittier Star Trek blended with The Dirty Dozen and Kelly's Heroes. Its popularity is evidenced by it being the longest continuously running series in the...

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Kelly's Heroes is an offbeat 1970 war film about a group of World War II soldiers who go AWOL to rob a bank behind enemy lines. Directed by Brian G. Hutton, who also directed the 1968 World War II drama Where Eagles Dare, the film stars...

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...- Joseph Thatchuk"). It has appeared in movies as well--at the end of the WW2 war comedy Kelly's Heroes, Kelly and his men leave the doodle in a bank they've just robbed, along with the words, "UP YOURS, BABY". It appears in the 1970 film...

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...Kennedy Martin quit after two years. He moved into films, writing the screenplays for The Italian Job and the Clint Eastwood film Kelly's Heroes, an improbable tale of a gold robbery set behind German lines during the World War II. He also...

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...truck is sponsored by Curb Records, as in Mike Curb of the Mike Curb Congregation, which sang "Burning Bridges," the theme song of "Kelly's Heroes. " The 1970 war movie starred Clint Eastwood as Pvt. Kelly, Donald Sutherland as Sgt....

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...went on to a great career in film and television, creating Z Cars and writing the screenplays for films including The Italian Job and Kelly's Heroes. He will be greatly missed." Not content with writing the screenplays for such films as The...

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...robbers and the Mafia. But the head of Paramount, Robert Evans, insisted on the Alpine cliffhanger. In Kennedy Martin's follow-up film, Kelly's Heroes (1970), a black comedy set in the Second World War, Clint Eastwood, with Telly Savalas...

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...of a northern police force at work. Kennedy Martin moved into film writing with The Italian Job, starring Michael Caine, in 1967 and then Kelly's Heroes, a second world war action comedy featuring Clint Eastwood. His later TV work...

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...theme to the '73 Burt Reynolds action flick White Lightning and the ever-brilliant Lalo Schifrin's "Tiger Tank" from 1968's Kelly's Heroes, an amazing heist film starring Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, Carroll...

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...Films Collection series, World War II - Battlefront Europe. Of the quartet of films included herein-The Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare, Kelly's Heroes, and Battleground-only one makes a stab at actually trying to present the war as something...

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