Kelly's Heroes
| Kelly's Heroes | |
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Theatrical release poster by Jack Davis | |
| Directed by | Brian G. Hutton |
| Written by | Troy Kennedy Martin |
| Produced by | Gabriel Katzka Sidney Beckerman |
| Starring | Clint Eastwood Telly Savalas Don Rickles Carroll O'Connor Donald Sutherland |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
| Edited by | John Jympson |
| Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 146 minutes |
| Countries | United States Yugoslavia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4 million |
| Box office | $5.2 million (rentals) |
Kelly's Heroes is a 1970 war comedy drama film directed by Brian G. Hutton. Set during World War II, the film tells the story of a motley crew of American GIs who go AWOL to rob a French bank, located behind German lines, of its stored Nazi gold bars.
The film stars Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas, and co-stars Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, and Donald Sutherland providing the comic absurdity, with secondary, comedic roles by Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin MacLeod, Karl-Otto Alberty, and Stuart Margolin. The screenplay was written by British film and television writer Troy Kennedy Martin. The film was a US-Yugoslav co-production, filmed mainly in the Croatian village of Vižinada on the Istria peninsula.