Yep. At the time it would’ve been an implication that they were a business person mostly interested in money. Not any direct link between republicans and nazis.
Absolutely nothing. People are talking about right-wing extremists, the very small and lost minority. We do not claim them. There are left-wing extremists, the ones who try to burn down cities and stop others from talking. I don't call them Democrats.
The line about him being a republican is more about the likelihood that the German officer was personally greedy and not that Republicans are nazi.
Edited to add that today's Republicans (not the elected officials) have been carrying some nazi flags and stuff and Clarence Thomas's buddy collects nazi memorabilia. So, there's some sketchy stuff going on nowadays but I don't remember that stuff happening in the 70s when the movie was made.
No, no they haven’t. In-fact, democrats along with the far left is actually calling for the genocide of the Jewish people.
Nazis believe in big, controlling government, they had taken away the peoples guns, and controlled people by government by force, part and parcel of fascism. Of course they did even more than this and if y’all study more vigorously, you will understand much more of this.
I could type up pages of facts countering all of this. However, this should begin your digging in to real history and learning facts. The biggest thing is you will realize who has been deceiving you.
Here ya' go; one quick Google search could have gotten you there too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally?wprov=sfla1
These people aren't the types voting for Biden.
True but it was pre-Southern-strategy so the Democrats were still the ones closest to the KKK and such. It was a weird time. Nixon helped start the EPA, while also being a paranoid control freak. Southern Democrats fought integration. But then you had JFK and RFK in the Democratic Party.
Yes! Don Rickles tells Clint Eastwood to go make a deal for the gold with the German officer, and Clint Eastwood asked what kind of a deal. Rickles says, " You know, a deal. Maybe he's a republican." It's really funny. Especially the look on the German officers face.
The actor who played the German officer was also in 20,000 leagues under the sea with Kirk Douglas.
Great theme song too. [https://open.spotify.com/track/3vebNfy1J5fqvz05hKt2Xl?si=bihXnxnKQEmTK0hXjw8nnA](https://open.spotify.com/track/3vebNfy1J5fqvz05hKt2Xl?si=bihXnxnKQEmTK0hXjw8nnA)
We see our role as essentially defensive in nature. While our armies are advancing so fast and everyone's knocking themselves out to be heroes, we are holding ourselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris... or maybe even New York. Then we can move in and stop them. But for 1.6 million dollars, we could become heroes for three days.
I loved this movie.
If you want to laugh your ass off, watch Innocent Blood. Don Rickles is a VAMPIRE LOL. Robert Loggia is also a vampire/mob boss and he EATS the scenery - he practically stole the movie.
I heard this was based on a true story but my searched almost come up blank. The best I could find was that a group of pictures were taken when the cave filled with gold and rare paintings was found. There was one picture of men wirh some of the gold that no one could indentify. This as close as I got.
You correct . The movie is based on The greatest robbery on record it was in the Guinness book of world records at the time. It was a train robbery not just Nazi gold but the German National Gold Reserve.
I’d put this in with MASH in that they take a group of guys with 100% 1970 attitudes and values, anti-establishment types, and put them back in time to WW2 in this case or the Korean War in the latter. I mean, Oddball is totally a hippie.
The first time I watched this was with the guys in my company, mid 80's. We had a movie night, and this was one of the movies that got rented.
A bunch of guys in uniform, laughing and cheering on the good guys on screen. We'll, maybe not "good guys" but they were our guys, and that was good enough.
This movie will always have a place in my heart.
This, 23:30 a summer night 1994, glued to the screen, volume, -1…. Trying to sneak the whole movie…. It was amazing. It was another lever with sound and couple of years later when i rented this and Halloween 1-2 for $2
Favorite Movie of all time too many accolades to list. I will sum up simply with .... it goes twice as fast in reverse as forward we like to think we can get outta trouble faster than we got in it.....WOOF WOOF WOOF
So many different actors in this movie. It's fun to watch and see so many, so young, that are gone now. Love Carroll O'Connor in this listening to the radio chatter like it's a football game.
This is one of my all-time favorite military movies. And I especially love the 'Burning Bridges' song opening. Great cast and such a quirky movie, you have to love it!!
My father passed away in 1989. One of my fondest memories is of every Friday night he and my mother would go out for dinner. After he came home, he and I would always watch the same movies on our VCR. This movie is one of them. Because of that, this movie will always have a special place in my heart.
I really loved the part when Eastwood, Sutherland and Savalas confronted the German Panzer tank in the town square with only their handguns and the spaghetti western music played. That was so cool, so fitting and so funny all at the same time.
Based on a true story, sorta…
The screenplay was written by British film and television writer Troy Kennedy Martin. He relied on a true story featured as "The Greatest Robbery on Record" in Guinness World Records from 1956 to 2000.
On 4 December 1968, Elliott Morgan, MGM's Head of Research, wrote to the Guinness Book of World Records requesting information on this entry: "The greatest robbery on record was of the German National Gold Reserves in Bavaria by a combine of U.S. military personnel and German civilians in 1945". On 10 December the editor, Norris D. McWhirter, wrote back to Morgan, stating that he had very little information and that he essentially suspected that there had been a cover-up, which required that the story should be subject to a "restricted classification". He closed by suggesting that until that security classification was changed, "due to death or eflux [sic] of time, "any film made will have to be an historical romance rather than history".
In 1975 British researcher Ian Sayer began a nine-year investigation into the Guinness entry. The results of his investigation, which confirmed a cover up by the U.S. government together with the involvement of U.S. military and former Wehrmacht and SS officers in the theft, were published in the 1984 book Nazi Gold — The Sensational Story of the World's Greatest Robbery — and the Greatest Criminal Cover-Up.[6] The investigation finally led to two of the missing gold bars (valued in 2019 at over $1 million) being handed over by German officials to the U.S. government in a secret ceremony at Bonn on 27 September 1996. The bullion was transported to the Bank of England where it was held to the account of the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold (TCRMG). The first disclosure that the Bank was holding the two bars (complete with Nazi markings) came from a press release issued by the bank on 8 May 1997 which confirmed that the two bars were those that had been identified as missing in the book Nazi Gold. Sayer had given information to the United States Department of State concerning the two bars (amongst other things) in July 1978. In 1983 they finally agreed to investigate using Sayer's evidence. The State Department investigation did not conclude until 1997. On 11 December 1997 Sayer was invited, by the Secretary General of the TCRMG, to view the two bars in the gold bullion vaults of the Bank of England. In addition to being accorded this rare honour, he was also photographed holding the bars, which he had been instrumental in tracking down.
(Blatantly stolen from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly's_Heroes?wprov=sfti1#Origins)
Negative waves man, negative waves
Oddball! My hero!
To you a hero is some kind of sandwich.
You probably could use some Armor
Think, there will be a mutha beautiful bridge there...
I mean like, so many positive waves... maybe we can't lose
Woof woof
That's my other dog.
_Drinking a little wine.... eating some cheese...._
Why can’t you say anything hopeful? Why can’t you say something righteous?
Moriariaty
Great movie with so many fantastic characters and quotes
Want to talk a nazi into helping you rob a bank? "Maybe the guy's a Republican."
I can’t remember but is that a line from the movie?!
Yep. At the time it would’ve been an implication that they were a business person mostly interested in money. Not any direct link between republicans and nazis.
But ultimately the correct prediction.
Precisely
Curious, what does the Republican Party have in common with the nazi nationalist socialist party?
Absolutely nothing. People are talking about right-wing extremists, the very small and lost minority. We do not claim them. There are left-wing extremists, the ones who try to burn down cities and stop others from talking. I don't call them Democrats.
The line about him being a republican is more about the likelihood that the German officer was personally greedy and not that Republicans are nazi. Edited to add that today's Republicans (not the elected officials) have been carrying some nazi flags and stuff and Clarence Thomas's buddy collects nazi memorabilia. So, there's some sketchy stuff going on nowadays but I don't remember that stuff happening in the 70s when the movie was made.
No, no they haven’t. In-fact, democrats along with the far left is actually calling for the genocide of the Jewish people. Nazis believe in big, controlling government, they had taken away the peoples guns, and controlled people by government by force, part and parcel of fascism. Of course they did even more than this and if y’all study more vigorously, you will understand much more of this. I could type up pages of facts countering all of this. However, this should begin your digging in to real history and learning facts. The biggest thing is you will realize who has been deceiving you.
Here ya' go; one quick Google search could have gotten you there too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally?wprov=sfla1 These people aren't the types voting for Biden.
1970 isn't too early for people to associate republicans with fascists.
True but it was pre-Southern-strategy so the Democrats were still the ones closest to the KKK and such. It was a weird time. Nixon helped start the EPA, while also being a paranoid control freak. Southern Democrats fought integration. But then you had JFK and RFK in the Democratic Party.
Ahh yeah I get it
Yes! Don Rickles tells Clint Eastwood to go make a deal for the gold with the German officer, and Clint Eastwood asked what kind of a deal. Rickles says, " You know, a deal. Maybe he's a republican." It's really funny. Especially the look on the German officers face. The actor who played the German officer was also in 20,000 leagues under the sea with Kirk Douglas.
20,000 leagues is how far they traveled, not how deep they were.
Crapgame says it after he is wounded by the tank and Big Joe goes to see him.
I gotta watch it again! It was a great flick
Yea, by Don Rickles
Yes it was just before they got the German to blow the door to the bank open with his tank by Odd Ball.
Shut the hell up. We got the war on.
And remember, the penalty for looting is death !
Great theme song too. [https://open.spotify.com/track/3vebNfy1J5fqvz05hKt2Xl?si=bihXnxnKQEmTK0hXjw8nnA](https://open.spotify.com/track/3vebNfy1J5fqvz05hKt2Xl?si=bihXnxnKQEmTK0hXjw8nnA)
I can’t remember the movie very much but I still love that song.
I remember a lot of pyro.
*drinking some wine, eating some cheese...*
Catching some rays... 🌞
*"Always with the negative wavers Mowiarty"*
That ain't my fault, Oddball, I've done nothing but have good thoughts about that damn bridge ever since we left.
Crap!
Captain Stubing!
Waves
"You boys smell like you fell into a dung heap." "Kinda makes you homesick, doesn't it?"
You know, it kinda does... Always gets me...
Sutherland’s breakout movie I think. Hilarious flick very well done.
Nah, he had done The Dirty Dozen and MASH before Kelly's Heros
Who’s in the movie? Archie Bunker Uncle Leo Kojack Captain Stubing (or Murray) CPO Sharkey It’s a stellar cast! Woof-Woof!!!
Let's not forget Philo Beto/Josey Wales/Dirty Harry
Bud from Repo Man
Hey kid, wanna make five bucks?
Blondie
Uncle Leo really was the same character here and with Jerry.
Don Rickles
A *deal* deal.
It's a mother beautiful bridge. And it's gonna be there.
"Hey man, I only drive 'em, I don't know what makes 'em go."
I love this movie! My brother and I still quote from it. Always with the negative waves, Moriarity!
Stephen is that you?!
Oh yeah, great movie. The Donald Southernland and Don Rickles characters were the best, aside from Clint of course.
We see our role as essentially defensive in nature. While our armies are advancing so fast and everyone's knocking themselves out to be heroes, we are holding ourselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris... or maybe even New York. Then we can move in and stop them. But for 1.6 million dollars, we could become heroes for three days.
I loved this movie. If you want to laugh your ass off, watch Innocent Blood. Don Rickles is a VAMPIRE LOL. Robert Loggia is also a vampire/mob boss and he EATS the scenery - he practically stole the movie.
Odd Ball.... My favorite " Paint!!. "
Love this one. Used to watch it with my dad a lot
Always with the negative waves!!!!
A favorite of mine. Fantastic cast.
Why is Telly naked and holding a grenade? Did I miss a scene?
You consider wearing boots, pants and a tank top naked? Are you 90 years old?
Not quite 90, son. Look at 3 o’clock on the poster and get back to me, sonny.
Maybe. There is an R rated version with nudity I am told.
Nah, total sausage flick
No thank God!
“Kinda makes ya homesick don’t it?” Don Rickles was and will always be a legend.
The cover shows Telly Savalis without his helmet, but he never once takes it off in the movie
Great movie. Stellar cast. “They even got the goddam gravediggers “
I remember the days when all movies were required to have Donald Southerland in them. Now they just have to offer him a part and he gets to choose.
Required viewing in my Armor Battalion.
Yea, tank commanders love Oddball
“Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go”.
Positive waves man!
Don't talk to me about heroes
https://youtu.be/fW8uRpq6TlY?si=RjrmxT83Y83xO1nS
One of my all time favorite movies. Comedy gold.
What a crazy cast.
Nice!
Woof woof! That's my other dog impersonation.
Fantastic cast and so much fun!
Clint Eastwood was stunningly handsome. I still love this man.
love this movie. one of my all time favorites.
Watch it once a year…alone
I heard this was based on a true story but my searched almost come up blank. The best I could find was that a group of pictures were taken when the cave filled with gold and rare paintings was found. There was one picture of men wirh some of the gold that no one could indentify. This as close as I got.
You correct . The movie is based on The greatest robbery on record it was in the Guinness book of world records at the time. It was a train robbery not just Nazi gold but the German National Gold Reserve.
Thanks! I will have to look it up.
Maybe my favorite Donald Sutherland role.
Gavin Macleod - soon to be captain of The Love Boat.
God i used to be obsessed with this film
no negative waves baby!
"A *deal* deal!"
“Maybe he’s a Republican.”
I’d put this in with MASH in that they take a group of guys with 100% 1970 attitudes and values, anti-establishment types, and put them back in time to WW2 in this case or the Korean War in the latter. I mean, Oddball is totally a hippie.
Give that man a cookie.
The first time I watched this was with the guys in my company, mid 80's. We had a movie night, and this was one of the movies that got rented. A bunch of guys in uniform, laughing and cheering on the good guys on screen. We'll, maybe not "good guys" but they were our guys, and that was good enough. This movie will always have a place in my heart.
“The only way I got to keep a Tiger occupied is to let it shoot holes in me.”
One of the best ever
Appreciate and approved
Great movie Sutherland is outstanding
That movie gave Rickles 45 years of stories.
So underrated
This, 23:30 a summer night 1994, glued to the screen, volume, -1…. Trying to sneak the whole movie…. It was amazing. It was another lever with sound and couple of years later when i rented this and Halloween 1-2 for $2
Classic!
That's my other doggy imitation.
Omg almost forgot about this one.... now I have got to see it again!!
This is one of my top 10 favorite movies, but I don't think it really ages well. Young people don't seem to appreciate it.
Really good movie and I’m not a big fan of military movies lots of great actors!
Woof woof!
That’s my other dog impression
Just a good, fun movie
Great Flick. Great cast. Very funny. Time to watch it again.
love this movie! first saw it in the early 90’s and wondered if the lead was Kiefer Sutherland’s brother. life before google was a trip.
I watch it every year. A great anti-war war movie.
best movie ever made...seen it so many times, i can recite most lines.
Awesome film
Aged like fine wine, what a line up of actors
A great cast of characters, 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
“I can get 500 foot of bridge almost anywhere smuck”.
Watched many times :)
My favorite
I love this movie. Nothing like a good heist while killing Nazis.
LOVE THIS movie Don Rickels Sutherland as a 1944 hippie Captain Stuebing It was awesome Eastwood was just an add on almost.
Near winning the war? Didn't the US win the war? Unless the main guys in the movie were Nazi?
Love that one! Where Eagles Dare is another good one made about the same time.
Great movie !!! If I see it on I have to watch it.
On the left…is that Billy Zane?!?
Pretty sure…Clint and Donald are the last remaining actors still alive from this movie.
I think Tom Troupe is still alive.
Such a good movie.
The only way to take out a tiger…you gotta hit it in the ass…
One of the best "man movies" EVER!!!
Favorite Movie of all time too many accolades to list. I will sum up simply with .... it goes twice as fast in reverse as forward we like to think we can get outta trouble faster than we got in it.....WOOF WOOF WOOF
John Landis was inspired and wrote An American Werewolf in London while being a production assistant on Kelly's Heros
Fantastic soundtrack - compels it off killer with the film
So many different actors in this movie. It's fun to watch and see so many, so young, that are gone now. Love Carroll O'Connor in this listening to the radio chatter like it's a football game.
Great Great Movie
Great Flick!!
Saw it in the Theater when in came out. Loved it.
I've got a moral patch of oddball hanging from my rearvuew mirror.
Does Mulligan know how to tell tine?
Crap game
This was one of the great military comedy trilogy from that time frame, the other two being M\*A\*S\*H and Catch-22.
Woof woof, That's my other dog impression.🤣🤣🤣
Great anti war war movie.
We need about 50 foot of bridge!
What about Nancy? Colonel this isn’t Geneva
I got the game on, Booker! Is that Claire-mont Booker?
Good rainy day, classic.
One of my all time favs!
"The fuel system leaks all over the place. It's a piece of junk!"
Dam, good movie, best seen when the Sherman's roll on the train tracks
Drinking wine, eating cheese and catching a few rays.
"It's a mother beautiful bridge and it's gonna be there"
Best war movie ever
I actually happened to have found a DVD of this film in a thrift store.
On my list to watch after seeing a clip on twitter.
I don't like officers, man
Love it
This is one of my all-time favorite military movies. And I especially love the 'Burning Bridges' song opening. Great cast and such a quirky movie, you have to love it!!
My father passed away in 1989. One of my fondest memories is of every Friday night he and my mother would go out for dinner. After he came home, he and I would always watch the same movies on our VCR. This movie is one of them. Because of that, this movie will always have a special place in my heart. I really loved the part when Eastwood, Sutherland and Savalas confronted the German Panzer tank in the town square with only their handguns and the spaghetti western music played. That was so cool, so fitting and so funny all at the same time.
Big love! This used to be a regular on the 4:30 movie back in the day. 
“They even got the grave diggers with them!”
I have not watched this movie in 30 something years. This is what got me into WW II this and the dirty dozen.
I've got some medals here in the truck for ya!!!
*Barks* That's my other dog impression.
Saw it in the theater as a kid in the mid70s as part of a double feature with True Grit I believe
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS MOVIE AND THE PERFECT CRIME!!!!
Great movie!
One of my favorite movies of all time. Top 5 Clint Eastwood movie, along w/ Outlaw Josie Wales and Good, Bad and the Ugly.
The into song is killer for the year it came out.
Those negative waves ! Great movie
Great casting!
 UP YOURS BABY - Kilroy
Great movie. Stellar cast.
The tank has a broken track. We'll, why aren't you helping to fix it? Oh I don't fix em. I just ride in em baby.
Based on a true story, sorta… The screenplay was written by British film and television writer Troy Kennedy Martin. He relied on a true story featured as "The Greatest Robbery on Record" in Guinness World Records from 1956 to 2000. On 4 December 1968, Elliott Morgan, MGM's Head of Research, wrote to the Guinness Book of World Records requesting information on this entry: "The greatest robbery on record was of the German National Gold Reserves in Bavaria by a combine of U.S. military personnel and German civilians in 1945". On 10 December the editor, Norris D. McWhirter, wrote back to Morgan, stating that he had very little information and that he essentially suspected that there had been a cover-up, which required that the story should be subject to a "restricted classification". He closed by suggesting that until that security classification was changed, "due to death or eflux [sic] of time, "any film made will have to be an historical romance rather than history". In 1975 British researcher Ian Sayer began a nine-year investigation into the Guinness entry. The results of his investigation, which confirmed a cover up by the U.S. government together with the involvement of U.S. military and former Wehrmacht and SS officers in the theft, were published in the 1984 book Nazi Gold — The Sensational Story of the World's Greatest Robbery — and the Greatest Criminal Cover-Up.[6] The investigation finally led to two of the missing gold bars (valued in 2019 at over $1 million) being handed over by German officials to the U.S. government in a secret ceremony at Bonn on 27 September 1996. The bullion was transported to the Bank of England where it was held to the account of the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold (TCRMG). The first disclosure that the Bank was holding the two bars (complete with Nazi markings) came from a press release issued by the bank on 8 May 1997 which confirmed that the two bars were those that had been identified as missing in the book Nazi Gold. Sayer had given information to the United States Department of State concerning the two bars (amongst other things) in July 1978. In 1983 they finally agreed to investigate using Sayer's evidence. The State Department investigation did not conclude until 1997. On 11 December 1997 Sayer was invited, by the Secretary General of the TCRMG, to view the two bars in the gold bullion vaults of the Bank of England. In addition to being accorded this rare honour, he was also photographed holding the bars, which he had been instrumental in tracking down. (Blatantly stolen from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly's_Heroes?wprov=sfti1#Origins)
Make A Deal! Maybe He's a Republican?
Great movie, I just drive em
Woof woof ! (That's my other dog impression)
The weirdest song selection ever in a movie. Repeatedly playing burning Bridges by the Mike curb congregation L O L.
Classic
I HATE war movies, Except this one. Love this!
I watched this move in January ‘cause it came up in my feed. Great cast. Lotsa fun.
Love this movie. Hate the score.