Kelly's Heroes

Kelly's Heroes

Clint Eastwood, you remember him as the Jet Squadron Leader in (Tarantula (1955) ASIN: 6302763835) is now on foot in the military during WWII. He learns that there is a considerable amount of German gold (element number 79, AU, SpecificGrav=19.32 and that is heavy, AtomicWeight=196.9665) in a bank, 30 miles into enemy territory. He must assemble a taskforce of loyal...Oops, greedy soldiers that are capable of recovering the gold before the town is taken by the allies.
Some of the key people are:
Of course Kelly the organizer and instigator, who is Clint Eastwood who played a lab technician in "Revenge of the Creature".
Telly Savalas is Big Joe. Much different than his character in "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home" (1965), where he was a Harem procurer that procured Shirley MacLaine.
One person that did not change is Carroll O'Connor as General Colt who was listening to the progress on the radio and thought that the expedition was an enthusiastic spearhead. He plays General Bolt in "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" (1966), who looks at aerial photographs and thinks that the troops are in hand to hand combat. (Bolt, Colt, it is still Carroll 0'Connor)
Last for best is Donald Sutherland as Odd Ball the unorthodox tank Commander. See him on the other side or serious side as Faber in Eye of the Needle (1981).