| 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 Harold Loeb 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 |
Release date |
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Running time | 146 minutes[1] |
| Countries | United States Yugoslavia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4 million[2] |
| Box office | $5.2 million (rentals)[3][4] |
Kelly's Heroes is a 1970 World War II comedy drama heist film, directed by Brian G. Hutton, about a motley crew of American GIs who go AWOL in order 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.
- ^ "Kelly's Heroes, running time". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
- ^ Hughes, p.194
- ^ "All-time Film Rental Champs", Variety, 7 January 1976, pg 46.
- ^ "Kelly's Heroes, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on September 29, 2013. Retrieved May 26, 2012.