The Curator at Home | Film Review: Kelly's Heroes | The Tank Museum
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- Join Curator David Willey at Home, as he reviews the classic film: Kelly's Heroes.
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"I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know." The Curator reviewing Kelly's Heroes :) Woof Woof!
was that your other dog impression?
One of my favourite movie quotes.
"I only ride them i dont know what makes em work"
“Definitely an antisocial type”
More truth spoken than fiction.
Work around many pieces of heavy construction equipment for a municipality; When asking other equipment operators about use and maintenance of machines: I get blank stares or told to see the mechanics...
I love the look on Oddballs face as he introduces his crew to Clint.
Beaming like a proud bohemian godfather, the lord protector of his ramshackle brethren-in-arms-and-booze.
the look on eastwoods says he can't believe what he's seeing
And the look on big Joe’s face when he tells him about their tank support. Oddball!?! He’s a freak!
Simply one of my all time favourite movie characters. :)
Oddball is such an anachronism he makes the film timeless.
woof, woof. that's my other dog impression :)
@@quadg5296 Eating cheese, drinking wine and catching some rays. 😎
@@quadg5296 definitely a anti social type
odd balls first dog impression is "yes sir" :)
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves
What I LOVE is that the tank museum is busting a gut, during this national crisis, to produce so much new and original online content.
The point I took from that film was, “no one gets anything unless you go through the supply Sargent.” My time in service re-enforced that.
also, always befriend the supply sergeant. or bribe him
also, always befriend or bribe the supply sergeant
"Stores are for storing!"
Amen to this
The first war film I ever remember and still my favourite, but looking at it as an adult it has a surprising amount of realistic content: the way the troops deploy, the acceptence of casualties, Oddball's commands during the railway assault and his knowledge of the mechanics of a Tiger.
It also looks way more authentic as a comedy film than most of the serious war movies of the era: " we'll just put a swastika on a Sherman: that'll make it German",
Do you mean the awful use of U.S. tanks in "Patton" (1970) and "The Big Red One" (1980)?
@@marianotorrespico2975 Battle of the Bulge (1965) ?
Nice. No dislikes so far...
No negative waves, man~
Doroteo Avenida
2 Nazis have chimed in
@@logoseven3365
Four now.
kirby culp
All from “Brazil”
See what sending out them negative waves did?
One of my all time favourite movies. Complete quality.
Considering it is a comedy, so much effort was taken to get all the kit, from knives up to tanks, accurate, that it stands out. I puts 'serious' movies like Battle Of The Bulge to shame.
In all honesty, what the Tank Museum is doing during Lockdown is really forward thinking and inspirational. Most museums, unfortunately, are not this forward with their marketing and community engagement. Here we have FREE content, practically every day, which is aimed at continuing support and spurring interest in this institution. As a burgeoning curator in the Military History field, I am inspired by this really revolutionary thinking on behalf of the Tank Museum. So glad you chaps are still working, and so thankful for this wonderful content.
They made the movie when i was 1 year old and my father was serving in the yugoslav army in Croatia at that time,and he was stationed near
the location where they filmed some fighting scenes in town of Vižinada in Istria.
Interesting! Did he tell you any stories about it when you were older?
@@davidb6576 Not much,only a few things from his army life.I remember one thing that my mother
told me some years later,that was interesting.Just a few weeks before he was to return home at
end of August 1968,Russian army invades Czechoslovakia and his unit stays in barrack for 2 more months.
He was in logistics,but his unit luckily stayed in barracks.
I also served in YU army in 88-89,and almost same thing happened to me when i was due to release in march
of 89.The breaking of Yugoslavia started and i got lucky just like my dad in 68,to avoid the things that happened later.I was already deployed from Ohrid in Macedonia to border with Kosovo and Albania.
Then a general from my home town Ljubljana visit our unit at our post and arranged for me and 2 of my
friends from Slovenia,to return to barracks and with first train we get to our homes.The recruits that came after us,weren't so lucky.
@@davidb6576 The Big Majority of the Movie was filmed in Croatia,especially in Istria (peninsula),that final battle (where the Bank is) was in the little town Vizinada in Istria! Regarding Clint Eastwood,he was driving his motorcycle around Istria,giving candies to local kids,and chasing beautiful Croatian girls(oh and also eating Cheese and drinking Wine😉)!! 😏
According by local people! 😎👍
" To a New Yorker like you a hero is a wierd sandwich " best line ever. Great movie.....
I enjoyed Kelly’s Heroes because most of the equipment was accurate enough for the period
At the time the film was made you could buy everything in dumpstores. There was plenty of everything. We went to school with the American haversack....
@@gertvanpeet3120 Yeah. Canteens, web gear, field jackets and ammunition, we could get those things at military surplus stores in the '60's but I haven't been to one in 30 years so I don't know about now.
But a quick google on Military Surplus gave me a bunch of listings ... looks like they carry a lot of general purpose camping type stuff but then I believe they always did.
Last thing I bought was a couple of 5.56mm ammo cans from the Gulf War (sand still inside them) that I used for tool kits I kept in my cars.
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My dads favorite movie. Why? "No bloody romance!" That's why!
we add this piece of pipe onto it, and the Krauts think, like, maybe it's a 90mm
'O man look at the colours'
@Ian Greenhalgh The rear facing guns on the B-25s used in the Doolittle raid...were replaced with broomsticks.
Painted them black so they looked the part . Saved some weight.
@Muzzle Flash It sure did. I believe the camo on the Firefly was done because the Germans would single out the only Firefly in the troop & target it because it was the most dangerous vehicle.
@Ian Greenhalgh All that extra "armor" really pissed Gen. Patton off. Extra weight meant more fuel consumption - and fuel was worth more than its weight in gold.
@Muzzle Flash As a long barreled Sherman was a priority target
I was nine when Kelly's Heroes was released. As a boy I used to sing "Every time I go to town - the boys start kickin' my dog around... ." I've seen it possibly a hundred times. Obviously one of my favorites. So many great scenes. My favorite scene is the one with the river crossing and the General is listening in. The one where the guys die in the minefield still chokes me up. Very affecting moviemaking - an ability beyond the capabilities of, it seems, modern filmmakers - though this is ostensibly a comedy. I introduced this film to my nephew (whose name is Kelly - he loved it) telling him that it's one of those films in which, after you've seen it, you wish you were one of the characters on the adventure! He went on to use a file of Burning Bridges by The Mike Curb Congregation overtop of his tank advances in some video game! Some years later I found a 45 record of Burning Bridges By TMCC in a thrift store. I still have it! WOOF WOOF!
I sang that song a thousand times!
This was my favourite film as a child, bought the VHS from a buddy of mine and watched it to the point where the tape was worn out :D
Sondre Midtsund you were a child of good taste
Yes, you're right, it is a classic 'caper' movie of the late 1960's. Unlike a lot of them, though, it is a rewarding repeat watch. And I have, many times. My absolute favourite bit is when the German tank commander is told exactly what it is he's guarding. The look on his face is priceless. My brother had never seen it until a few years ago, and enjoyed it immensely. It doesn't do any good thinking too deeply about it - just enjoy the equipment, the action, and the great selection of top actors. Nice one.
And don’t forget Carrol O’Conner played a brilliant role as the allied general in the sector. His one liners are fantastic. “you’re there guys suppose to be fighting this war and you don’t even know where there hell it is. Well I’ll tell ya where it is. It’s thirty miles beyond where you thought it was!”
Booker! Get me my uniformmmmm!!!!
Definitely a parody of Patton.
And all those officers standing around him being terrified of him and kiss asses and the corporal pushing past them all with his silver breakfast set and says “hey where do you want this”.
"Hey! Hey ! Hey! THE GAME'S ON!!!"
Your the communications officers your supposed to be able to communicate. More like a damn military sensor.
The bit with the paint round into the rear of the 'tiger' :D Classic.
It's a wonderful tank. It's a piece of junk. Always with those negative waves man .
There are two things I really LOVE about this movie:
1) Most action movies have the heroes mowing down enemy soldiers effortlessly. It's cartoonish and stupid and doesn't interest me at all. Kelly's Heroes never shows the heroes winning "just because". When they win, it's because of superior tactics, and when they make mistakes, they suffer casualties. There's a scene where the squad totally massacres a larger German force- but it's preceded by at least ten minutes of tension as everyone moves into position. They win because of preparation, recon, surprise and some clever tactics. My favorite scene in a WW2 movie.
2) It's not just an action comedy- it has a great underlying theme (we're all working joes, even the enemy soldiers, and the rich jerks who sent us to kill each other are the real enemy).
Sutherland, bloody good actor !!!....
This movie actually shocked me when they killed members of the platoon. It's the first movie that I actually remembered characters with lines that had been killed.
And names even! And their deaths weren't at all melodramatic. No final speeches. They just got caught in the open and when all the shooting was over, they were gone.
And I noticed the German officer who takes the call and leads the patrol is at a training camp. New troops implied.
Came for a film review. Learned about post WW2 Yugoslav army. Very interesting!
No negative waves so early in the afternoon Mr Curator. I have to tell you what I think works so well (amongst other things) about this movie is that it takes its subject matter (war) very seriously whilst still being being fun to watch. I always did kinda wonder if what they would have made from the heist would have been worth it though.
remember to compensate for inflation, also they are soldiers anyways and they are in danger anyways so why not make some money?
TeoTomTasTer its almost 13 million each today. So probably worth it yes lol. But I don’t think they could go home again. I guess Switzerland would have to do :-p
Almost every part of the world looks great when look at it from the milion dollar perspective.
A sequel, maybe five years down the road, could have been a great film.
Hammers and Nails when they are all like landed gentry in switzerland lol
“Did you ever hear enthusiasm like that in all your life. They even have the damn gravediggers in there”
On a side note, while the soldiers are off doing a bank-job that would be deemed illegal plunder, their commanding officer (Captain Maitland) just beforehand left the unit to secure the shipping to America of a fancy french sail boat he has stolen. I doubt anyone would care about that though...
Us had committed theft numerous times through out the war in real life. Mark Felton documents it really well.
That's the point (and made in the film), one rule for the officers one for the men.
@@GregStachowski I think he also was son or something like that of a general, that is why he got away with it.
The CO was a hypocrite, early in the movie he leaves his men stuck in a farm house in the middle of nowhere while he goes off to paris.While leaving he tells him men the penalty for looting is death, as he is having a very fancy boat being hauled away that he took for himself.
When asked how he gets away with his incompetence and bad leadership etc big Joe says its very simple, his uncle is the general(Carol o Conner)
I love this movie, it had great characters like odd ball and his crew or don rickles as crapgame etc it is a shame it was shortened. I would love to have seen it longer and fleshed out a bit more.
@@oddball5434 Nephew IIRC
Like some comments have stated before: it's so great because the comedy doesn't come from the war, it takes the war very seriously and the humour is grunt-level satirical. So it's a proper war movie, a proper comedy and a proper heist movie. But most of all it is a very tactical film, some key scenes use actual tactics, and even the logistics are an important plot point.
Don Rickles as "Crap-game" is hilarious.
Search TH-cam for "Don Rickles Roasts Clint Eastwood"
@@juniorjaxon9843 Lets have lunch :-)
Will you stop cryin............!?
Fire!... Fire!
In the minefield:
"Hey! Hey! I found one"!
"What kind is it"?
"The kind that blows up! How the hell should I know"?
I have seen this movie literally dozens of times!.....and to this day still have it in my collection of DVDS.........It was a main inspiration for my 20 years in US Armor........Great Review!
They were in the Army, say, five years or less. Robbed a bank and were set up for life.
You did 20. Commendable. But how many banks did you rob? Let's hope you had some good days with BarBQ, beers & catching some rays at least! LOL!
All the burning bridges
That have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings
And the burning memories
Everyone I left behind
Each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore
So quick to click this video since it's one of my favorite films. Thank you for your review of this classic.
Re-watched it today and man did it bring back memories! I have to say that still to this day it is one of my all-time favourites films, and the soundtrack is so good you can't help sing along. To anyone who still hasn't seen it, buy it, rent it, watch it! You won't be sorry.
One of my favorite movies since I saw it when it came out. A point of interest is that many of the actors were WWII vets like Don Rickles. Good Luck, Rick
Funny how Wargaming hasn't made a "Oddball's Sherman" as a premium tier VI in World of Tanks
Copyright, I think.
@@sodadrinker89 - It wouldn't be hard to ask. What's the worst that could happen? They get told no and that's that.
With a paint gun ability!
The tabletop game "Flames of War" had a commemorative Oddball's Sherman miniature a few years back.
Not Soviet...there is your answer.
'To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some sort of weird sandwich, not some nut that takes on three tigers.' :-)
Great review thank you.Timeless film & with MASH/ Catch 22 showed how mocking wars was very popular given the Vietnam disaster. So many great characters - The General + Oddball = Woof Woof!
I am blown away. You critique tanks AND movies! You are a multitalented marvel!
Last night I watched Kelly's Heroes for the first time in almost 3 years, then this video pops up in my recommended. The timing!!!
Every Christmas day the wife goes to visit her mother. I sit back with a bottle of green spot and slip in Kelly's Hero's. I have done this every Christmas for the last 20 years. Best two hours of year......roll on December!!!!
"There's sixteen million dollars worth of gold in that bank sweetheart."
My all time favorite movie. Great review! Thanks for the upload!!!👍
I love Kelly's Heroes, probably watch it again tonight.
"Woo-wee, you two smell like you fell in a dung heap!"
"Kinda makes you feel homesick, don't it?"
You know, it does, kinda, don't it, old buddy.
The Finest WW II Documentary ever made. Woof! Woof!
burning bridges is a BANGING tune!
It was gonna be called The Warriors. Did Clint, Telly and Donald battle their way back to Coney Island after Cyrus was killed?Also, Cross of Iron, directed by Sam Peckinpah, was filmed in Czechoslovakia, lots of T34s, although 85s, set in 43. Lee Marvin fav. Edit James Coburn, what was I thinking?
What an underrated film that is! Only watched it for the first time last year. The final tank sequence really brings home how terrifying it would be to be an infantryman with no armour support.
'Come out to playeeeay'
Cross of Iron was a great movie also filmed in the former Yugoslavia. James Coburn was great as was James Mason, Maximilian Schell and David Warner . The tank attack scene was awesome! Movie was considered a box office failure but has become a classic.
Force Ten From Navarone was also filmed in the Yugoslavia. The Germans were using "captured T-34's" I guess.
@@michaelporzio7384 There's a sequel and I forget the name. It's not as good as the first but not bad really. It didn't have Coburn in it either.
The first time this was on TV was way before we had a video recorder- so I recorded the closing theme on our little tape machine on the c30 that came with it. Love this movie.
I was not expecting such an interesting backstory about the tanks used in this film. Thank you kindly
I tracked down a copy in the early 2000s thanks to the many fans who recommended it on TankNet. After that, I picked up on so many references I would’ve missed. It’s one of my all-time favorite films now. Thanks for the detail on the filming in Yugoslavia, I had no idea that’s where they were shooting. It definitely looks the part on screen.
"That you come back to".Absolutely correct.A great movie that never seems to get old no matter how many times you watch it...:)
I'm a movie lover, this is my absolute favorite. I can remember seeing 1st time at theater..THANKS for making this video
I first saw this movie in the early 80's when my father bought on VHS tape and i was cutting school one day and decided to watch it and fell in love with it right away and i'd say this is where my love of tanks started, the funny thing is how popular it still is with the fans but Clint Eastwood was not happy with the final cut of the movie, he was upset that scenes providing background to the characters was cut, i wish those scenes were still available i'd love to see them.
"That's my other Curator impression !"
Was in a tank unit on M1s, when the scouts would bite off more then they could chew, they would yell oddball over the net. That was our cue to come in and lay waste. Another awesome tank movie is " The Beast of War"
RPG, Tahnk, Kaboom!
Enfield, fix, RPG.
They called him "Tank Boy"
@Muzzle Flash for the most part all the hand and arm signals in the beginning are legit, the slangs used in the turret are as well, most accurate tank movie I've seen. I believe the tank is Syrian t55 captured by Israelis and the gun swapped to a 105mm
I remember watching escape to victory years ago. At the end when the French civilians ran on the pitch I noticed the clothes didn’t match ww2 . The main one I noticed was a teenage boy wearing a blue tracksuit and red wellies 😃
Clown...most of us just want to watch an old 1969 classic...we don't get the binoculars out and perve on every extras clothing like you and critic it....happy new years 🍻🍻🙂
Definitely one of my favorite movies. It is really really well made all around.
It is very much an Anti-Vietnam film in a WWII guise. I use it as an example of artistic license, in a historic setting - people seem to get very upset about Historical accuracy not everything needs to be 100% accurate.
The RR yard scene showed what Shermans were good at.
They had loudspeaker teams to use for propaganda but they only mounted those on light tanks, Jeeps, half-tracks and even made up a special truck just for that purpose. So it could have been possible to see one mounted on a Sherman - towards the end they would only mount those on a tracked vehicle.
Also thought Apocalypse Now ripped that scene off.
Mom and Dad loved this movie. Mom was a nurse during the Blitz. Dad was in the 6th Armored Division. The same division that Oddball's shoulder patch is for. The Tiger mock ups were well done. If not for the tracks and suspension, dead give away, it would be much harder to tell
One of my favorite movies, can't help but wonder what has become of all of the WW2 trucks and tanks. Always loved the scene with the M5 tractor and the lowboy trailer pulling off with the boat.
This movie is a masterpiece. I showed it to my 18 year old nephew and his friends in my home cinema and they loved it. The Tiger commanders realization of what's in the bank then the 88 blowing the hell out of the door was a lol moment for all.
Interesting that the director also did the Italian Job- at least the tiger tank manages "to only blow the bloody doors off"
One of my all time favourites. I rewatch it every couple of years. Now that I have seen this video, it is time to watch it again!
Nice review. "Kelly's Heroes" is one of my favorite films involving tanks, despite all the technical mistakes they made. There is a somewhat obscure film called "The Steel Lady" that you might also want to take a look at.
I actually saw the props from Kelly's Heroes at the old Lamanva military museum in Cornwall. Very clever what you can do with plywood. Good film! Mark Felton Productions covered the true story which the film was based on. Still a lot of ww2 tanks around when I was in the Balkans 94 to 2000 on and off.
When I was teaching in China, my students were accustomed to WWII films where the conflict was between allies and axis. I told them to look for conflict between officers and non-commissioned ranks.
..they did NOT - GET IT! i presume?
I never knew I needed film reviews from David but now I can't live without it.
Doggy & Mr Willey pumpin out "positive waves man" 🤣😂
Oh man, thank you for all these positive waves in the morning
Believe my dad took us to the drive in to see it. Stiil one of the best war movies. Those were the days
'A bit odd in places'. Yup, especially when Oddball is on screen! :-) It's one of the few films I watch again, whenever it is repeated, and still enjoy.
I remembered watching it when I was younger and it was hilarious. Tried to buy it from the Tank MuseuM last winter but it cant be played at my region.
Girls und Panzer made many references to Kelly's Heroes
For what it is worth; from the half dozen first person accounts I have heard, practically NONE of the dialog from Don Rickles' character (Crapgame) was in the script. Apparently on the very first day of filming Mr. Rickles (very much in his standard form) did not read from the script but instead made up his lines as he went and they were ALL better than the script. By the second day the director and writers just gave up and let him go...
Also; "hippies" in the 1940s were called "Beatniks" (no, really...)
would be lovely to see a series of films with tanks........always nice to know this kind of background information...
Oh never knew you guys had a shop I'm alway online now !
love what you are doing with the "The Curator at Home" flogs keep it up hoop there will be more once the museum is open.
A lot of positive waves !, thanks , very informative on one of my favourites 👌🏻😎
All the burning bridges that have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore
5 likes....your something else clown....happy new years 🍻🍻🙂🙂
Thank you for this; now I know what to put on as background while I clean the house!!
Always one of my all-time favorite movies!! I've always appreciated the fact they made the effort to make replica Tigers.
Thanks so much for all these videos you guys Rock!
I love this film. Thanks for covering
Sahara!
Humphrey Bogart versus the Afrika Korps in (IIRC) an M3 medium tank.
One of my favorites.
I saw this at the drive in back in the day ..
Wish I could go back !.
Yes it was that great back then !.
One of my Favourite movies and being a Canadian loved seeing our Donald Sutherland playing Oddball. Great Cast and all around riotous good times!!!
Brilliant film. Ordered an Oddball tee shirt last week. A film that has stood the test of time.
My all-time favorite bank heist movie - the good guys get away with the loot
watched this a long time ago, great film, now I want to watch it again, totally forget it existed so thx for bringing it to attention again
Kelly's Heroes... my all time top favorite! A must have for any library.
When it comes to Tito's Socialist Yugoslavia and the foreign military aid he did sort of a "neutrality dance" - turn left, bow, extend hand, sidestep, turn right, bow and extend hand. That's why there are M4s and M10s serving alongside T-34s and T-55 and F-86 Sabres serving alongside Migs.
Tito was less of a Communist, and more of a Pragmatist...
It's a bit beside the point, but Tito was also a huge film buff and tried his damnedest to make yugoslavian cinema(and those partisan warfilms of his brilliant leadership during WW2) an internationally recognized thing. To that end the yugoslavs were extremely accomodating to the western producers, just responding with "nema problema" "not a problem" and then scrambling to deliver what was promised.
Thank you - I just downloaded it and got done watching Kelly's Heroes again. Damned good entertainment.
I have the DVD, seems like a good time as any to watch it. Thank you, Mr Curator!
Love this movie! So many great characters and the film really builds a sense of camaraderie between them - its like Lord of the Rings with Thompson submachine guns instead of swords!
I just have to say, you have the coolest job, ever. Can't wait to get my tank slippers!!!
Thoroughly enjoyable old school movie and genre mash up.
Kit wise, yes, more right than wrong, and certainly made the effort in a few places.
I desperately hope that TIGER 131 is in total isolation. I remember reading that the pandemic had infected other tigers....😜
Bravo sir.....well needed.😂😂
E. Gill very kind. Thank you
Thanks, nice one, that set my day up!
“It’s a mother beautiful bridge and it’s gonna be there.”
Now this, this is brilliant. I would love to have more military movies reviewed by the tank museum!
Carroll O’Connors scenes as the general brings me to laughable tears every time I watch this. He is honing his Archie Bunker personna to perfection . We got the game on!!
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Odd fact. The song at the end was “Burning Bridges” was by a California politician, LT Governor Mike Curb.
Well you learn something new every day! Never noticed the connection with "The Italian Job". At least the ending worked out better for Kelly than it did for Charlie.
One of my favorite fun movies to watch. Never get tired of watching it. So many great scenes. One comes to mind is the priest that shows up with porno films for Telly Savalas's company.
As I recall, The Platoon Sergeant Wanted Pornos, but similar to everything else related to their R&R plan, it didn't work out. It was another Reason that the majority of the Soldiers wanted to Wanted to participate in Kelly's scheme, and eventually their Senior NCO agreed.
this is outstanding. thank you!
Easy Moriarity- there you go again with them negative waves man!
It's a piece of junk! The fuel system leaks all over the place... it's a piece of junk!!
I still say ‘Easy Moriarty!’ To people, most have no bloody idea what I’m talking about. They need to get an education....