Fun War Movie

Rating: 8/10 (13 August 2005)

"Kelly's Heroes" is indeed a film set during World War II, but there is little or no similarity to actual happenings. Clint Eastwood and a rag-tag band of US army soldiers undertake the knocking off of a bank behind enemy lines, and the results are pure pleasure for the viewing eyes.
Eastwood, during interrogation of a captured German officer, learns of a German bank located behind the lines, and plans a bank robbery during an enforced furlough. Naturally, he is unable to do it himself, but he would like to keep the numbers down as low as possible. Secrecy, or keeping the information from the ears of the commanding officers in his army group is also of a paramount importance. With the aid of such stalwarts as Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, and Donald Sutherland, the "heroes" head out for the town where the bank is located.
During the trek toward the bank, the band of men encounter the usual military problems, but manage to make it to the town where the bank, and the fortune in gold bullion, is located. Germans still hold the town, the real army group headed by Carroll O'Connor, is drawing nigh, and Clint needs to deal with the German tank command that is right in front of the bank. How that is handled will leave the fans of this genre with a pleasing watching experience.