Films featuring
Gavin MacLeod

Kelly’s Heroes (1970)

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Tigers.

A contemporary of both M*A*S*H and Patton, this gleefully anti-establishment World War II comedy manages to bridge both films, turning a lot of the clichés of earlier war movies on their heads while not totally disrespecting the genre. The American GIs in this film are still square-jawed and tough-as-nails, but they are also tired of war and bored out of their minds.

Oddball, Kelly and Big Joe cut a deal.

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