They weren't hippies. They were beatniks. I always figured Oddball and his crew started the trend. That's why the earliest beatniks wore french berets.
The whole point was that Oddball & co. Were like the soldiers in Vietnam, which was in full swing at the time; the whole film is an anti-war oatody, about a bunch of soldiers who have had enough and want out, it's a sort of American Sven Hassell.
My whole childhood was filled with quotes from this film. When I got one of my dads questions right, he’d say, “very good, you win a cookie”. Or if we were driving along and saw a group of people by the roadside he’d say “who’s that bunch of refugees over there?” I’m now an airline Captain and when I got back from trips he’d say “you didn’t lose your aerial photographs now did you?” Sadly we lost my dad a couple of years ago but his memory hasn’t died as I now use the same quotes on my kids!
"woof woof!" "Don't try to be funny Oddball, waddya want?" "I'm kinda hung up....I need about 60 feet of bridge" " How am I supposed to get 60 feet of bridge ten miles beyond enemy lines....I need support...where am I gonna get 100 guys just like that?" (Turns and looks at the band practicing) "Hey "Now there it is Sir, 300 Kz's" ...."I've got it Booker!" ....."Sir, where do you want these?" (tray full of breakfast crumpets)...Get away! Don't you know we got the game on?"
I love how Oddball is actually also an excellent leader lol. Keeps morale high, exercises good discipline and planning, trusts the mechanic will fix the engine (hence the wine and cheese), knows how to smooth talk a higher-up in a pinch, and knows the ways of enemy tanks/tankers. Super smart and capable guy.
Sutherland is priceless in this movie. This was a great cast. Also seems they got along and made a movie for entertainment and nothing else. I love this movie and cast.
@@bogusmogus9551 Yeah.... Imagine nowadays a bunch of American "oddballs" fight against the WWII Germany true heirs: Iran and its supporting Islamist terrorist groups
Oddball was my inspiration to become a tanker when I joined the military. I made sure my driver watched Kelly's Heroes so that whenever we moved out, I could call out "Haoooooooooooo!!!!!!" to get my M1 moving! It was awesome...
Tanks are cool untill you get fried in one an if I had to be in a tank in a conflict it might be an M1 that offers more protection than most but is so thirsty,needs huge logistical support and has a ridiculously low operational radius so take out the support(easier said than done) the M1 will quickly grind to a halt. Against Saddams Aged Soviet tanks the m1 was supreme with no losses as far as I know but go up against fex the massively upgraded German Leopard 2 which can also drive fully submerged in water and even fire its main gun submerged(just kidding)ur gonna start loosing M1`s.
@@ethericboy tank crew loses are lower then infantry, even when you look at those aged russian tank's crews. the fact of the matter is there are dozens of ways that a tank uses to protect itself not open to infantry, and it can use 90% of the ways an infantryman can avoid death, and it has to deal with far less shit that can kill it. plus the mere presence of an enemy tank has been shown to put off the aim of enemy troops. combine that with the fact most tanks that go up, don't kill the crew and its a lot more appealing then being poor bloody infantry. artillery corps is the best tho.
What I always loved about this was that even though Oddball and his platoon were screw-offs and lowlifes (arguably) they were a frightfully effective combat unit. They rolled through that town with just three tanks and leveled it. No infantry or air support. In combat they were veterans, and skilled in all the ways that counted. As I once heard from another commander while I was in the military: "No combat-ready unit ever passed inspection, and no inspection-ready unit ever survived combat."
My all time favorite war movie . My father turned 100 years old in September. He's a decorated WW2 veteran of 9th Air Force , 391st Bombardment Group. He survived 78 missions in the nose of a B-26 bomber flying over France and Belgium. When we watched this movie together I actually saw him smiling . He actually got a kick out of it !! His new goal is to be the oldest surviving World War 2 veteran . GOD BLESS ALL OR VETERANS. AND I SINCERELY THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR BRAVERY AND SACRIFICE TO KEEP US FREE OF TYRANNY !!
He surely smiled because as a WW2 veteran, he saw how absurd it was. Its a rotten movie, the worst war movie of all time IMHO. I hated it and still do.
I was just starting in the Army Reserve when this movie played to a GI audience. When Telly Savalas warned his men that they could all get killed going after the gold; one of guys said, "We're getting paid $50 a month and getting killed now!" The audience went nuts! The yelling was intense. What a line for new GIs who were shortly going off to Nam.
Donald Sutherland was sooo underrated as an actor during his early years. The man was an outright genius. Just saying "Oddball" to a group of WWII movie buffs brings an instant smile to their faces.
@@petemitchell4652 again, has nothing to do with his acting. But if you don't support, fine.. don't support the US and all it's actors, as the biggest murderers are not communists, but the USA and the UK!
Talked to a veteran while watching this movie, he said the scene where the tank crew is just sitting around sipping on sangria is so accurate it hurts.
I'm ex armor recce.. can confirm. Hot coffee anywhere in the world. The thing to do was dump half a cup of steaming coffee off the side while you drove by the infantry... used to give em an anurism lol (Always had a fresh pot on)
Alex Foster Why waste good coffee on the infantry? Standing in the hatch they can see the coffee mug in your hand.... blow the bilge tanks at em and wave.....
"It's a mother beautiful bridge, and it's going to be there..." That line has stuck with me since my childhood. Whenever I need to think positively, I tell myself that "it's a mother beautiful bridge, and it's going to be there..."
Yup. Whenever I have to do something risky or uncertain when troubleshooting or fixing somebody's computer I will sometimes mumble "beautiful bridge, beautiful bridge, big beautiful bridge" to myself. Doesn't always work out but I figure, like Oddball, some positive waves can't hurt when you're up against the wall. XD
"I'm drinking wine eating cheese and catching some rays" one of my favorite movie lines of all times. Before cable when this was on I always watched it as a kid. All these guys were great in this movie. This movie, Were Eagles Dare and Guns of Navarone when I was growing up were the ones to watch when they came on Saturday night or Sunday evening.
Guns of Navarone also had a Boob scene which as a 12-13yr old was SOOOO much better than National Geographics or Fredericks of Hollywood, Sears Catalog, etc...No young guys, we had to work to get our eye's satisfied!!!
@@brandonclark435 Absolutely! It belongs with these other gems, too. Actually, it's my favorite of the genre. Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, John Cassavettes, George Kennedy, et al. Talk about a sterling cast.
Add The Enemy Below to that list. As long as it wasn't a school night, my dad and I would set an alarm to get up at xAM to watch it on the late night movie.
I like the ending where they keep their promise and give the German tank commander his share of the gold and everybody's happy. Then he sells his tank to Oddball 😆
"Aristocratic psychosis" is the most amazing and perfect way of putting it that I've ever heard. I almost want to run out and form a band, just so I can call it that...
@@animalanimal7939 good point! Doc Holiday helping out Wyatt Earp because... "he's my friend." Other guy: "Hell, I got many friends!" Doc: "...I don't."
Retired Police Commander who had 300 detectives working with me. Whenever we had a "heater" case, the pressure was on from the politicians to solve it. Anytime one of my detectives would come to me and say the case was unsolvable, my pat response would always be, "what's with all the negativity Moriarity"? Half of them never got the reference.
@kevinduffin2771 It would have been a hoot working with you. Unfortunately my Commander is easily flustered in a crisis situation. “Hurricane, mass casualty incident, the Chief is pissed off” “Dude, how long have you been a cop?” I’m a VERY salty Marine and cop. 😁
First watched this Movie as a 10-year old kid in 1970 and was mesmerized to the point of obsession. Still am today. What a priceless, genius work of war drama/comedy Hollywood Art! Woof, Woof.......Woof!
"We are holding ourselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris or maybe even New York so we can move in and stop them" I always knew it was Oddball who saved the Battle of the Bulge
Every time I'm occupied with something interesting and someone tries to interrupt me I'm reminded of Carol O'Connor as the general in the scene of when he is trying to listen to the action taking place on the radio and yells at all the people present making noise and the officer trying to ask him a question "Get the hell out of here, We got the game On" !
Oddball was based on a German tank commander named Kurt Knipsel. Like Oddball, Kurt wore an non-regulation bread and kept long disheveled hair. He was afforded this because of how skilled a tank man he was. he was noted to be very modest and gregarious. If a tank kill was ever contested by another crew he would give it to the other crew, even if the claim was dubious. Time and time again he was passed over for promotion due to his anti officer, anti-war behavior which got him in trouble but again, you don't jail someone with hundreds of tank kills to their name. There was a notable incident in which he witnessed a group of Soviet prisoners being beaten. He and his crew clambered out of their tank and beat the holy hell out of the SS men in charge the group. He would not live to see an end to the war he hated. He vanished in Czechoslovakia in the closing months of the war. Decades later his remains were discovered.
@@tomaspabon2484 - Probably. You basically have one guy saying one thing, and another guy saying another thing, then thousands of people quoting one of those guys as if they had all the facts. You might try running it past a "fact checker" - then you'll know the story they claim is false is the truth.
@@tomaspabon2484 It was. Almost all of the information about Knispel's WW2 exploits came from one source - a book by Franz Kurowski, a writer infamous for his revisionist and largely-bullshit books about German "aces" of WW2. A Nazi apologist, he essentially only reported the positive facts, left out all the negative stuff, and filled any gaps with fanciful stories he completely fabricated himself. In reality, all that's known about Knispel's heroics is that he was on the lists of German Cross in Gold recipients, he commanded a Tiger I, and he's the subject of a famous picture of a tanker sporting a beard and a messy haircut. That's it. People bought into the Knispel myth (despite the fact that Kurowski's other books about higher-profile aces were already known to be semi-fictional) because it sounded good: Germany's highest-scoring tank commander was ostensibly a Czech conscript who hated authority, beat up an officer for abusing Soviet POWs, was a cheery friend to everyone, etc. Everyone desperately WANTED it to be true, and nobody bothered chasing up the sources on his Wikipedia page until recently. Naturally, a just a little bit of digging demonstrated that most of Knispel's Wikipedia page (and the book it drew from) was fabricated. Notably, even one of Knispel's superior officers who was quoted repeatedly in the book furiously spoke out saying it was nonsense, and that Kurowski made up the quotes in the first place. www.portal-militaergeschichte.de/toeppel_kurowski www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/
Excellent Movie A Classic One of my top 3 War Movie s of all time Perfectly Casted You will never see movies like this ever again They sure don't make them like they used to Donald Sutherland made the Movie
This movie is what you call a cheese fest. It's so corny and seems soo dumb. But it's one of the best damned movies period. No matter how many times you watch it it's just as funny.
His character made the entire movie in my opinion. I'm gonna have to buy a copy of this on DVD. I originally saw it in junior high school in the late 70s and have loved it ever since.
Odd ball changed every kids neurological activity in our neighborhood. The movie did something subliminal. We were laughing at everything and finding humor and positive waves daily
How could you leave this out: Kelly: Well Oddball, what do you think? Oddball: It's a wasted trip baby. Nobody said nothing about locking horns with no Tigers. Big Joe: Hey look, you just keep them Tigers busy and we'll take care of the rest. Oddball: The only way I got to keep them Tigers busy is to LET THEM SHOOT HOLES IN ME! Crapgame: Hey, Oddball, this is your hour of glory. And you're chickening out! Oddball: To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Tigers. Kelly: Nobody's asking you to be a hero. Oddball: No? Then YOU sit up in that turret baby. Kelly: No, because you're gonna be up there, baby, and I'll be right outside showing you which way to go. Oddball: Yeah? Kelly: Yeah. Oddball: Crazy... I mean like, so many positive waves... maybe we can't lose, you're on!
So true. Excellent scene. One of my favorite movies of all time. I've seen it so many times yet when it's on tv I can't not watch it. You know what I mean you've been there. "Now that's the kind of fighting spirit I'm talking about they even have the grave diggers involved."
Kelly's Hero's one of my Favorite Movies to watch. To all those who have Served and are Serving in are Armed Forces, and to those who Lost their Lives Serving and Protecting the U.S.A. Thank You and you will always will be Remembered.
The greatest American hero plated by a great Canadian actor, Donald Sutherland. He made oddball one of the most memorable characters to ever appear in a movie.😀🍿
I especially like that part where he says: "I just ride 'em. I don't know how they work." And the look on Telly's face right after he says that is hilarious.
@@softturd Telly had played a hard-boiled tank sergeant, Guffy, in the 1965 movie, "The Battle of Bulge", who is very, er...ENTREPENURIAL, and has a Belgian village girl, Louise (Pier Angeli) as his business partner. When the German attack is on, and Guffy and his surviving assistant driver, a young kid, bailed from their tank being rammed and knocked on its side (their crewmates got machine-gunned as they bailed) and made their way back to the rear, Guffy meets up with her to tell her to sell their remaining merchandise, as the Germans are on their way to take the town of Ambleve, and obviously they'll confiscate their stock, and probably shoot her as a profiteer. Guffy admonishes her for the condition of their chickens ("ya know what fresh eggs bring these days?"), and when he hands her the share of what he's sold, he hands him a rather impressive wad of cash. Guffy is shocked, and at first won't accept it, as, without her having sold a commensurate amount of stock, he fears she's been whoring herself out to make ends meet. Louise understands why Guffy is reluctant, and, although she's a bit offended, explains that "when a woman goes into business with a man, it's 'forever' ", confessing her love for him. Guffy is perplexed, as he'd never pressured her for sex, but Louise explains that's why...she feels he respects her. Realizing that he's been in love likewise with Louise all along, he hands her all his money, explaining, "hey, you get shot, and before they get the plasma in ya, some guy is running his hands through your pockets", meaning he believes the medics or fellow soldiers will steal from a stricken man. Louise begs Guffy to kiss her and he does as he has to rejoin his unit. Later, when he's back at division HQ to be assigned to an improvised tank unit (to mount a last-ditch stand before the German Tiger brigade crosses the Meuse river), after the battle in which Ambleve was taken by Col. Hessler's armored brigade, Guffy asks a officer about news of the town. When told there was "nothing left of it", he's crestfallen, and tearfully turns to General Grey (Robert Ryan) and asks, "When they gonna let us fight?". Not necessarily being gung-ho, just wanting to avenge the woman he loved.
Guys who didn't need to be catered to by use of their preferred pronouns and knew which restrooms to use? They'd never make it in today's Army - at least not until after the Pentagon was destroyed.
The movie was actually based on a true story, and to this day not all of the 'Nazi Gold' has been accounted for. What I loved about oddball's character was that at the end he didn't go AWOL with stolen gold with the rest of them, but that he used his share of the gold to buy the Tiger tanks from the German officer in order to replace the ones his platoon had lost during the battle.
Only one of the Tigers was serviceable. The other two, he'd managed to get a shot "right in it's ass", i.e., where the armor was the weakest, presumably taking out its engine and puncturing its fuel tanks. The way the second one, taken out in the alley after it's caught, unable to traverse its turret to get off a shot at Oddball's Sherman (big mistake on the part of the Tiger's commander, he ought to have made immediately for the edge of the town, and position the tank to cover it, hoping for a shot at the Sherman, or to take care of any other forces threatening the bank) blows up after the second round penetrates its rear (the first one being a "paint" round), somehow, it must have touched off an 88 mm round. What's sort of "dark" about the film, aside from two of the men in Big Joe's platoon literally "buying the farm" in the plowed field, sown with mines, is that one of the three Sherman's from Oddball's platoon is burning, with no mention as to whether the crew bailed...or NOT. The other one is stuck in the river, as it probably tried to ford and presumably foundered on the soft bottom. No mention also of its crew; we saw them in the scene where they're "chilling" with some local girls, including a local woman, hanging wash, literally barefoot and pregnant. We also saw them in the brief "battle" (more an outright massacre, including French CIVILIANS) in the railyard, as the Shermans emerge from the rail tunnel, playing loud country music over their loudspeakers, and later when they paused to cross the river and saw the bridge ("It's still up...(POW, as it's bombed by some obliging P-47s)...no, it ain't!") they'd pinned their hopes on crossing being taken out. While obviously the inadvertent penetration in the German lines is resulting in a lopsided victory, with General Colt, of course, taking all the credit, it's not without cost. We forget in all the guffawing and laughter over this ludicrous and hilarious tale is that it was set in WWII, and men DIED.
67 thumbs down really? come on folks this is one of the best war comedies ever made and your thumbs downing it? great flick, great actors all around, and funny as hell. i got to go watch the whole movie now, kelly's heros rocked!
The initial meeting scenes between Eastwood & Sutherland are my favourite ever in any [anti] war movie. I get the impression that Clint genuinely wondered what Sutherland was like after the 'calms us down' line - his facial expression is priceless!
Strangely, one of my favorite movies of all time. The cast is fantastic and the story line is great. I mean, who casts Don Rickles as a soldier, or Donald Sutherland for that matter? Brilliant! The soldier who fought in WWII were ordinary people. This is an entirely feasible plot!
That reflects some of the REALITY of a large-scale draftee Army. Crapgame and Oddball are not exactly "military" types, though they're each quite talented at what they do, but each in their UNIQUE way, on THEIR terms. Crapgame, a semi-parody of quartermaster sergeants/chiefs everywhere, is a mercenary ("Ok, Kelly, what's in it for me?"), out to make a few (hundred thousand) bucks here and there for his trouble, while to Oddball, life's one big party. They're actually EXTRA-ordinary, b/c they managed to get away with how they operate!
@@kamakaziozzie3038 Few sons of those in the "political class", or those of highly-placed corporate folks, will be in uniform to catch rounds produced from TulaAmmo. Even fewer will be those of Democrats, and virtually NONE who are Jewish.
Taras Shevchenko Makes me wonder if that "wow" was scripted or if Donald Sutherland was genuinely impressed by the fired paint job done to the tank. I heard a lot of stuff he said in this classic was either unscripted or he changed some of the words around on the fly.
Ramon Rodriguez I remember Moriority stating, "Its a pice of Junk.". "The fuel systems leaks all over the place. Its a piece of junk,". It was filmed in the 60's and released in the seventies. we were spared of todays hollywoods language.
@@ivangranger8494 Was the version you saw on TV? May very well have had the sweary words dubbed out. People swore and cursed just as much back then, *_especially_* in the military. It's not 'Hollywood's language' - it's just language.
Well, he would get a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in "M*A*S*H" in '70 and again for "Ordinary People" in '81. And turned a great performance in a non-comic role in "Klute" (1971)
This movie has to have the largest All-Gold cast in it as well as being the most uynder-rated movie of all time. A comedy classic I have loved since I was a kid. "Look at that will ya? They even have the gravediggers in on this!"
Always audacity (even in a covering defensive action, if needed.) Bring it or don't show up. It turns out the classic image of a cavalry charge crashing into a shield wall hardly ever works out. Usually the wall decided the collumn isn't going to stop, and yields, or the column decides the wall isn't going to break, and veers off. Each man makes his own decision about whether it's in his best interests to let everyone else occupy the enemy, while he exercises "the better part of valor".
After I watched that movie that song by Mike Curb congregation represented turn from 60's to 70's, just an absolute gem, Oddball was a misfit bohemian gem, so many gems that movie, big Joe, crapgame, cowboy all misfits, together left an impression. You could almost smell the diesel, cigarette smoke, liquor, engine oil, gunpowder and body odour coming off the screen.
I'm trying to think of some other great under rated or little known movies. Try Gene Wilder and Don Sutherland in "start the revolution without me", I think it is called, I have the DVD over there somewhere. Also "the great train robbery" with Sean Connery and Leslie Anne Down. She was beautiful.
Probably one of my favorite movies of all time. As someone else commented, it is so underrated. The cast is awesome, Donald Sutherland's Oddball is hilarious, one of the best parts of the movie; paint filled ammunition baby ... LOL; such talent. I have the DVD and probably watched it a million times by now. Never gets old. Telly Savalas, Clint Eastwood and Don Rickles ... all amazing. Major chemistry, good casting. LOVE IT!!!!
During field training we did someting similar, we trolled the company arias in a jeep and played Bad Moon Rising real loud. the OP guys stood up like meer kats.
@@JohnSmith-kz8yo Amen, brother! So wonderful to be young, strong, and beautiful. Seger was right. Many is the day I "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." From the perspective of WAY too many years I can see how embarrassingly clueless and careless I was, but DAMN it was fun! Peace stay safe be well
Greatest ÉVER !! Foréver classic with Oddball and Kelly insurmountable, in fact ALL cast ! Yet GREAT STUFF, after all these years ~ thank you kindly!! 👊🔥⁉️🥂
Troy Martin wrote the movie based on a true story. For the film, he looked up "the greatest robbery on record" and found that it was of the German National Gold Reserves in Bavaria by a combination of U.S. military personnel and German civilians, thus Kelly's Heroes. I've found that films that convey the craziest stories are often based in fact. It's a strange world we live in.
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When I was a tanker in the mid 80s, Oddball was my hero. And seriously, we were just like his platoon. We had lawn chairs, and a charcoal grill on our tank We has so much stuff on our tanks we weren't suppose to have. We even hooked up a cassette player to our intercom system.
Definitely one of Eastwood's best movies! Sutherland should have gotten "Best Supporting Actor" for that role for sure!!! A true classic. KILROY WAS HERE- UP YOURS BABY!!!!
Leaves me with a positive wave response watching this 1970 Comedy with Great Performances from a Legendary cast,Some not with us anymore R I P Including the late Telly Savalas and The late Don Rickles to Carroll O'Connor to David Hurst and Karl Otto Alberty as the German Tank commander to name who were hilarious in this .Great lines and Memorable hilarious performances to Drama also in this .A film I can watch time and time again ❤No time for negative waves either 😂🤣😂🤣
Best scene in any war film ever has to be the one where the tank breaks down in the middle of the battle and big joe and some soldiers come up to oddball who's just sitting there and oddball says "hi man", big joe replies "what are you doing?" and oddball says, "I'm drinking wine, eating cheese and catching some rays....you know". Then he goes on to do his 'other' dog imitation lmao. Its brilliantly delivered and Donald Sutherland in that instant was the best soldier character anyones ever played in a war film.
"Look Crapgame, to a New Yorker like you a HERO is some kind of weird sandwich, not a nut who takes on three Tigers with one Sherman!" BEST LINE EVER!!!
I was drafted in 1970. First night of basic training I found myself in a temporary WW2 baricks. Across the street was a Quonsette Hut Theater showing "Kelly's Heroes" and "Mash" at Fort Knox, Ky. Both of these military masterpieces were my guide for the duration of being "Government Property".
Most movies I give a pass to as to the real story but the one that gets me in Full Metal Jacket. I liked the movie but as a US ARMY vet, I like to ask -- "Do Marines really have live weapons and ammo in barracks with Basic Training Grunts?" It's a good thing I say that Hartman was killed in the shower by Gomer Pyle. Because in the Army, had he obtained a active weapon (one with a firing pin - ours weren't installed until we went to the rifle range) and LIVE AMMO, he would have been given a Dishonorable and kicked out of the Army. So I really doubt that scene because weapons even in USA posts are kept in a strong room with a lock. Good example is in From Here to Eternity when the Pearl Harbor attack starts the Marines are stopped at the door of the arms storage and have to over power the guard to get at the rifles.
As an Army vet, I get tickled at the of people who never served. Most think that we were constantly fighting. These great movies tell the true story especially Stripes (what goes on in peace time / Cold War). Bill Murray's comments were spot on. We have 2 or 3 "Class Clowns" in our unit. One was a Black guy Anderson from New Orleans and he was in my platoon. He mentored me. 1) The DI's cannot by law hit a recruit or put them in harms way -- in the 1950s some Gungho Marine DI, night marched his squad into a lake in the middle of the night - several drowned. Congress passed a LAW that guards recruits and trainees from physical violence. Recently at Ft Hood and Ft Bliss, some women were raped and murdered. In those cases the 3 Star General got dismissed never to command again. I don't give a darn what the Marines say -- get grunts killed (non-combat) and your ass is gone! 2) If you can only do 10 pushups all you have to do is just stay lying down and tell the Sgt "10 is ALL I can do Sarge". The Sgt can get mad as hell but can't hit you no matter how they feel. 3) The Full Metal Jacket movie. As a vet I had to walk out to the lobby when the Gook sniper started killing our guys. It was real. War is the failure of humans to compromise or settle differences. The biggest joke is currently (my view) that Putin has rebuilt the Russian military back to Soviet days....PLEASE - its a bumFrick country which has 1/3 the GDP output as California, New York and Texas -- How can you be a superpower when so many countries are providing better jobs, money systems, security, and legal systems and Putin has a low 2nd Tier country smaller in output than 3 of our states.
The best scene is Telly Savalas getting near a resting seated Odball and the ''Hi man'' and the face of Savalas when Odball explains he ''only ride them''. Cracks me up...
One of my top 10 favorite movies. I've seen it 100 times I bet. Oddball was such a misplaced hippie but a great supporting role. "You zee Ameriken army" "No baby we ain't the American army"
That was very nice of him. Here's a story just the opposite A good friend of mine was a busboy at a restaurant called Who's on First in NYC back in the early 80's. Farrah Fawcett & Ryan O'Neal were there. He spilled some water ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM, and they both had him fired! Shows how sometimes fame can go to some people's heads and some people like Donald Sutherland are just nice guys!
Tragic story! Not just that the Hollywood Snobs would complain about that... but that it would actually be cause for Termination! The saying goes, 'You're Not A Server 'Til You've Spilled Something'! & I Do Mean On Someone! Had heard those two were a tad hoity-toity when not on camera!
That is a supper cool story! Always loved Mr. Sutherland & hoped he was as cool off-screen as when on! As we all know... the acid test of this is how one treats a sever!
First time I saw this flick was when stationed along the Czech border as a US army armored cavalry tanker. "I dunno' what makes 'em run.. " the greatest movie line ever
''Don't be hitting me those negative waves so early in the morning.'' That brings back the 70's like a four way hit of Mr. Natural. Those were the days my friend. That's what we need more of today. Hippie's twenty years ahead of the beat generation. Peace.
thank amc for playing this almost every weekend back before they started producing their own shows (love breaking bad) but nothing beat the old war movies
This movie does to WWII movies what the spaghetti westerns did to cowboy movies. The earlier films made sure the heroes were heroes, selfless, honest, hard working, doing what's right. This is a heist movie. Love it.
My absolute favorite movie of all time. When it came to my hometown theater back in the early 70's, I went to see it 5 times in a row. My dad later have me the video tape for a B day present. Such an under rated movie.
I served in the 35th and believe me when I say we had guys just like this in there. Best damn duty I pulled in my 18 years. I’ve got the unit patch tattooed on my left shoulder. 🇺🇸
Whoever had the idea to have a hippie commune, in a warzone, 20 years before hippies were a thing was an actual comedic genius.
They weren't hippies. They were beatniks. I always figured Oddball and his crew started the trend. That's why the earliest beatniks wore french berets.
@@Chilliam13 That is actually one of the better fan theories I have heard. I like that idea.
The whole point was that Oddball & co. Were like the soldiers in Vietnam, which was in full swing at the time; the whole film is an anti-war oatody, about a bunch of soldiers who have had enough and want out, it's a sort of American Sven Hassell.
@@Chilliam13 they called em bohemians back then
He stole the movie from Eastwood. Great cast and a lot of fun.
My whole childhood was filled with quotes from this film. When I got one of my dads questions right, he’d say, “very good, you win a cookie”. Or if we were driving along and saw a group of people by the roadside he’d say “who’s that bunch of refugees over there?” I’m now an airline Captain and when I got back from trips he’d say “you didn’t lose your aerial photographs now did you?” Sadly we lost my dad a couple of years ago but his memory hasn’t died as I now use the same quotes on my kids!
thnx for sharing this heartwarming story, Nicholas. It reminded me of my own dad and his jokes and lines.
Be well and stay quirky with your kids.
Beautiful man beautiful
Lol, what a great story!
* "Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?"
"woof woof!" "Don't try to be funny Oddball, waddya want?" "I'm kinda hung up....I need about 60 feet of bridge" " How am I supposed to get 60 feet of bridge ten miles beyond enemy lines....I need support...where am I gonna get 100 guys just like that?" (Turns and looks at the band practicing) "Hey "Now there it is Sir, 300 Kz's" ...."I've got it Booker!" ....."Sir, where do you want these?" (tray full of breakfast crumpets)...Get away! Don't you know we got the game on?"
Likely your Dad, aside from obviously having an unstoppable sense of humor, taught you to "lay off them 'negative waves'.
I love how Oddball is actually also an excellent leader lol. Keeps morale high, exercises good discipline and planning, trusts the mechanic will fix the engine (hence the wine and cheese), knows how to smooth talk a higher-up in a pinch, and knows the ways of enemy tanks/tankers. Super smart and capable guy.
Sutherland is priceless in this movie. This was a great cast. Also seems they got along and made a movie for entertainment and nothing else. I love this movie and cast.
This movie is based on a true story. A bunch of Americans did 'acquire' some gold bullion
As a Tanker (19K), I'll say Oddball is our ideal TC.
@@bogusmogus9551 Yeah.... Imagine nowadays a bunch of American "oddballs" fight against the WWII Germany true heirs: Iran and its supporting Islamist terrorist groups
@@lowkey1969 Moriarty is legend, too
God bless Oddball and his brave men, keeping New York safe from possible German counterattacks. *salute*
Set before the attempted break-out toward Antwerp?
Philip Schmidt & Paris too.. AAAAOOOOAAAAAOLLOLOOOOO
Thanks to Oddball not a single Tiger tank attacked New York. A True Iron Soldier!
Philip Schmidt 😆😆
No, they bombed pearl harbor john Belushi
Oddball was my inspiration to become a tanker when I joined the military. I made sure my driver watched Kelly's
Heroes so that whenever we moved out, I could call out "Haoooooooooooo!!!!!!" to get my M1 moving! It was awesome...
I bet the fuel system doesn't leak all over the place though 😂
Tanks are cool untill you get fried in one an if I had to be in a tank in a conflict it might be an M1 that offers more protection than most but is so thirsty,needs huge logistical support and has a ridiculously low operational radius so take out the support(easier said than done) the M1 will quickly grind to a halt. Against Saddams Aged Soviet tanks the m1 was supreme with no losses as far as I know but go up against fex the massively upgraded German Leopard 2 which can also drive fully submerged in water and even fire its main gun submerged(just kidding)ur gonna start loosing M1`s.
quite a nice story.
But i gues the driver might have gotten a little tired of it.
@@ethericboy There you go...sending out negative waves! Lol!
@@ethericboy tank crew loses are lower then infantry, even when you look at those aged russian tank's crews. the fact of the matter is there are dozens of ways that a tank uses to protect itself not open to infantry, and it can use 90% of the ways an infantryman can avoid death, and it has to deal with far less shit that can kill it. plus the mere presence of an enemy tank has been shown to put off the aim of enemy troops.
combine that with the fact most tanks that go up, don't kill the crew and its a lot more appealing then being poor bloody infantry. artillery corps is the best tho.
" Sixty feet of bridge I can pick up almost anywhere … schmuck! " Still one of my fav lines in film history.
"Never go Full Retard!" you can't come back. tropic thunder just before Hollywood went Full Retard PC.
Quite the Milo Minderbender type from Catch 22
Bellamy is actor Len Lesser who played Uncle Leo from Seinfeld and actually served in WWII
I say that to myself all the time.
My favorite line is "To you, a hero is some kind of weird sandwich."
What I always loved about this was that even though Oddball and his platoon were screw-offs and lowlifes (arguably) they were a frightfully effective combat unit. They rolled through that town with just three tanks and leveled it. No infantry or air support. In combat they were veterans, and skilled in all the ways that counted. As I once heard from another commander while I was in the military: "No combat-ready unit ever passed inspection, and no inspection-ready unit ever survived combat."
That's a great quote...
Isn't that one of Bill Mauldin's comics?
@@jeffbosworth8116prolly..its not in " Up Front" but he had several other books and thousands of captions to go with pics..
My all time favorite war movie . My father turned 100 years old in September. He's a decorated WW2 veteran of 9th Air Force , 391st Bombardment Group. He survived 78 missions in the nose of a B-26 bomber flying over France and Belgium. When we watched this movie together I actually saw him smiling . He actually got a kick out of it !! His new goal is to be the oldest surviving World War 2 veteran . GOD BLESS ALL OR VETERANS. AND I SINCERELY THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR BRAVERY AND SACRIFICE TO KEEP US FREE OF TYRANNY !!
Hi Todd say to your Dad and tell him thanks.
Thank him for his service and may he live longer . Texas .
He surely smiled because as a WW2 veteran, he saw how absurd it was. Its a rotten movie, the worst war movie of all time IMHO. I hated it and still do.
@@minerran You never know. Either way, it's clearly meant to be absurd. Take that stick out, would ya?
@@minerran Crawl back under your rock now !!
"We haven't captured that place yet!!" -
"So i heard, but everyone seems very friendly"
butcher bane my favorite line
This is such an underrated classic. The whole cast is perfect and Sutherland played the best role ever
I had a truck driver that worked in the same company as I did. HE LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE THE GERMAN COMMANDER, I swear!
Had a great theme too. All those burning bridges, yo.
Not in Poland. Since years we love that movie!
Yes and mash and mash was the other one
A true classic
I was just starting in the Army Reserve when this movie played to a GI audience. When Telly Savalas warned his men that they could all get killed going after the gold; one of guys said, "We're getting paid $50 a month and getting killed now!" The audience went nuts! The yelling was intense. What a line for new GIs who were shortly going off to Nam.
Donald Sutherland was sooo underrated as an actor during his early years. The man was an outright genius. Just saying "Oddball" to a group of WWII movie buffs brings an instant smile to their faces.
He was also an admitted communist
@@petemitchell4652 and ? has nothing to do with his acting..
Also saying "Oddball" to a group of fans of a certain 2012 Japanese anime will give them a big smile on their faces.
@@wilco300674 I don’t idolize or celebrate people who support murderous actions
@@petemitchell4652 again, has nothing to do with his acting. But if you don't support, fine.. don't support the US and all it's actors, as the biggest murderers are not communists, but the USA and the UK!
Talked to a veteran while watching this movie, he said the scene where the tank crew is just sitting around sipping on sangria is so accurate it hurts.
lol
“Months of boredom punctuated by moments of extreme terror."
I'm ex armor recce.. can confirm. Hot coffee anywhere in the world. The thing to do was dump half a cup of steaming coffee off the side while you drove by the infantry... used to give em an anurism lol (Always had a fresh pot on)
Alex Foster
Why waste good coffee on the infantry? Standing in the hatch they can see the coffee mug in your hand.... blow the bilge tanks at em and wave.....
@@yomama69s Surprised the infantry didnt let enemy sneak thru and fire atgm at you. ;-)
The movie holds up after forty years; that is a testament to its excellence.
What's the name?
Good period pieces usually do.
@chris younts The Shermans where real but the Tigers where modified T-54s. Still look good though. Love this movie!
@chris younts It was made in Yugoslavia, least communist country of the bunch
theallseeingmaster Amen! 😃
"It's a mother beautiful bridge, and it's going to be there..."
That line has stuck with me since my childhood. Whenever I need to think positively, I tell myself that "it's a mother beautiful bridge, and it's going to be there..."
Yup. Whenever I have to do something risky or uncertain when troubleshooting or fixing somebody's computer I will sometimes mumble "beautiful bridge, beautiful bridge, big beautiful bridge" to myself.
Doesn't always work out but I figure, like Oddball, some positive waves can't hurt when you're up against the wall. XD
Positive Waves Man!!!
"I'm drinking wine eating cheese and catching some rays" one of my favorite movie lines of all times. Before cable when this was on I always watched it as a kid. All these guys were great in this movie. This movie, Were Eagles Dare and Guns of Navarone when I was growing up were the ones to watch when they came on Saturday night or Sunday evening.
This movie gives me the mindset that no matter how hopeless it is, there is hope if you just let go of those negative waves.
The Dirty Dozen!
Guns of Navarone also had a Boob scene which as a 12-13yr old was SOOOO much better than National Geographics or Fredericks of Hollywood, Sears Catalog, etc...No young guys, we had to work to get our eye's satisfied!!!
@@brandonclark435 Absolutely! It belongs with these other gems, too. Actually, it's my favorite of the genre. Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, John Cassavettes, George Kennedy, et al. Talk about a sterling cast.
Add The Enemy Below to that list. As long as it wasn't a school night, my dad and I would set an alarm to get up at xAM to watch it on the late night movie.
"Kelly's Heroes"an all time great classic, I was 17 when I first saw this, now I'm almost 70 and still enjoy it just as much, some great actors in it
He was no hero, movies stars do not deserve hero status. /Real soldiers deserve that spot.
@@salvadormartinez2852 Talking about the movie you wanker, it's just that, it's a movie and a great one, read what I said not what you think I said
@DashaB0553 This Movie and the Dirty Dozen with Lee Marvin. Both are Excellent Movies in my Humble opinion .
@@richardclark1077 Totally agree along with Lee Marvin in Paint Your Wagon
Theres always one pillock who doesn't read the comment properly and leaves something ridiculous. CZcams is full of them . So annoying 🤬
Possibly the most underated and overlooked movie ever. It never gets old. compare this masterpiece to anything made in the last ten years. No contest.
Right On.
Last THIRTY years..Robert at 68.
I like the ending where they keep their promise and give the German tank commander his share of the gold and everybody's happy. Then he sells his tank to Oddball 😆
Would you knock it off already with them negative waves ? Not overlooked nor underrated. Was regularly shown on TV .
One of the Very Best 'War Films' Ever Made. The entire Cast did a truly wonderful job Oddball was always my favourite character
Drinking wine, eating cheese & catching some rays. My favorite line in the movie.
"Kid, you gotta pull yourself together. You ain't in the middle of Central Park!" Crap Game to Oddball, c.1944.
And he says the line like, DUH? What do you think I'm doin.
Woof woof woof!!! That's my other dog. Hilarious!!!
Oddbal????? hes a freak hes a nut ha ha ha
😄😄😄😄😄😄
Oddball almost has an air of aristocratic psychosis about him.
And I love him and his positive vibes
"An air of aristocratic psychosis" , nicely put and totally agree!
"Aristocratic psychosis" is the most amazing and perfect way of putting it that I've ever heard.
I almost want to run out and form a band, just so I can call it that...
@@stickiedmin6508 I thought about Doc Holiday in tombstone. Aloof yet polite.
Then deadly.
@@animalanimal7939 good point! Doc Holiday helping out Wyatt Earp because... "he's my friend."
Other guy: "Hell, I got many friends!"
Doc: "...I don't."
He doesn't care for vibes bro, only waves
Retired Police Commander who had 300 detectives working with me. Whenever we had a "heater" case, the pressure was on from the politicians to solve it. Anytime one of my detectives would come to me and say the case was unsolvable, my pat response would always be, "what's with all the negativity Moriarity"? Half of them never got the reference.
@kevinduffin2771 It would have been a hoot working with you.
Unfortunately my Commander is easily flustered in a crisis situation. “Hurricane, mass casualty incident, the Chief is pissed off” “Dude, how long have you been a cop?”
I’m a VERY salty Marine and cop. 😁
First watched this Movie as a 10-year old kid in 1970 and was mesmerized to the point of obsession. Still am today. What a priceless, genius work of war drama/comedy Hollywood Art! Woof, Woof.......Woof!
"We are holding ourselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris or maybe even New York so we can move in and stop them" I always knew it was Oddball who saved the Battle of the Bulge
I was enamored with the "we like to feel we can get out of trouble, quicker than we got into it." to me thats just smart!
The Battle of Lon G'island.
...and Sutherland says "New York" like a New Yorker. Not bad for a Canadian who studied acting in the UK!
Has to be one of the best casts ever assembled. Carol O'Connor as the general was hilarious as well
amen. this is such a great cast!
Absolutely! Great cast, Telly Savalas as Big Joe, Don Rickles, Carol Oconnor, just over the top fantastic!
Agreed
No such actors, no such movies.
Every time I'm occupied with something interesting and someone tries to interrupt me I'm reminded of Carol O'Connor as the general in the scene of when he is trying to listen to the action taking place on the radio and yells at all the people present making noise and the officer trying to ask him a question "Get the hell out of here, We got the game On" !
Who can say when the hippy movement started, Kelly's Heroes was a gem of a movie, that still glitters. Woof, woof, woof.
One of the best movies ever with such great people
"I don't need you, sixty feet of bridge I can pick up almost anywhere... Schmuck!"
:D Classic!
over the top
"It's still up!"
*BOOM*
"No it ain't!"
Never ceases to crack me up.
I met Donald Sutherland on a train in London, he has charisma and is so nice to talk to.
Oddball was based on a German tank commander named Kurt Knipsel. Like Oddball, Kurt wore an non-regulation bread and kept long disheveled hair. He was afforded this because of how skilled a tank man he was. he was noted to be very modest and gregarious. If a tank kill was ever contested by another crew he would give it to the other crew, even if the claim was dubious.
Time and time again he was passed over for promotion due to his anti officer, anti-war behavior which got him in trouble but again, you don't jail someone with hundreds of tank kills to their name. There was a notable incident in which he witnessed a group of Soviet prisoners being beaten. He and his crew clambered out of their tank and beat the holy hell out of the SS men in charge the group. He would not live to see an end to the war he hated. He vanished in Czechoslovakia in the closing months of the war. Decades later his remains were discovered.
never realized that thank you for sharing
Wasnt most of knipsels biography bull?
@@tomaspabon2484 - Probably. You basically have one guy saying one thing, and another guy saying another thing, then thousands of people quoting one of those guys as if they had all the facts.
You might try running it past a "fact checker" - then you'll know the story they claim is false is the truth.
@@tomaspabon2484 It was.
Almost all of the information about Knispel's WW2 exploits came from one source - a book by Franz Kurowski, a writer infamous for his revisionist and largely-bullshit books about German "aces" of WW2. A Nazi apologist, he essentially only reported the positive facts, left out all the negative stuff, and filled any gaps with fanciful stories he completely fabricated himself.
In reality, all that's known about Knispel's heroics is that he was on the lists of German Cross in Gold recipients, he commanded a Tiger I, and he's the subject of a famous picture of a tanker sporting a beard and a messy haircut. That's it. People bought into the Knispel myth (despite the fact that Kurowski's other books about higher-profile aces were already known to be semi-fictional) because it sounded good: Germany's highest-scoring tank commander was ostensibly a Czech conscript who hated authority, beat up an officer for abusing Soviet POWs, was a cheery friend to everyone, etc. Everyone desperately WANTED it to be true, and nobody bothered chasing up the sources on his Wikipedia page until recently.
Naturally, a just a little bit of digging demonstrated that most of Knispel's Wikipedia page (and the book it drew from) was fabricated. Notably, even one of Knispel's superior officers who was quoted repeatedly in the book furiously spoke out saying it was nonsense, and that Kurowski made up the quotes in the first place.
www.portal-militaergeschichte.de/toeppel_kurowski
www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/
Excellent Movie A Classic One of my top 3 War Movie s of all time Perfectly Casted You will never see movies like this ever again They sure don't make them like they used to Donald Sutherland made the Movie
One of the few war films I can watch over and over and still not get bored
same here its one great movie!!
This movie is what you call a cheese fest. It's so corny and seems soo dumb. But it's one of the best damned movies period. No matter how many times you watch it it's just as funny.
I love Caroll Oconner's role in this movie. He is one of them that makes it. Wow what a cast.
Absolutely same here.
Now I'm gonna have to watch it, one of my favorite movies, do I have a DVD of it?
This was definitely one of Donald Sutherland's best roles. A hippie 20 years before hippies.🤣🤣🤣
@@JohnLaudun no shit?
My point was exactly what I said. 🙄
@@JohnLaudun The movie was set in ww2 about 20 years earlier.....!
Donald Sutherland's greatest role was creating Kiefer Sutherland! I agree this is a very entertaining movie and Oddball adds a lot.
@@JohnLaudun It took place in the 1940's, so the "hippie" character was out of place.
@@howie9751 no oddball was right in place, cool surf dudes are in every war.
His character made the entire movie in my opinion. I'm gonna have to buy a copy of this on DVD. I originally saw it in junior high school in the late 70s and have loved it ever since.
Odd ball changed every kids neurological activity in our neighborhood. The movie did something subliminal. We were laughing at everything and finding humor and positive waves daily
How could you leave this out:
Kelly: Well Oddball, what do you think?
Oddball: It's a wasted trip baby. Nobody said nothing about locking horns with no Tigers.
Big Joe: Hey look, you just keep them Tigers busy and we'll take care of the rest.
Oddball: The only way I got to keep them Tigers busy is to LET THEM SHOOT HOLES IN ME!
Crapgame: Hey, Oddball, this is your hour of glory. And you're chickening out!
Oddball: To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Tigers.
Kelly: Nobody's asking you to be a hero.
Oddball: No? Then YOU sit up in that turret baby.
Kelly: No, because you're gonna be up there, baby, and I'll be right outside showing you which way to go.
Oddball: Yeah?
Kelly: Yeah.
Oddball: Crazy... I mean like, so many positive waves... maybe we can't lose, you're on!
So true. Excellent scene. One of my favorite movies of all time. I've seen it so many times yet when it's on tv I can't not watch it. You know what I mean you've been there. "Now that's the kind of fighting spirit I'm talking about they even have the grave diggers involved."
Nice quote, gonna have to look up that scene.
I think that Oddball probably formed a biker gang when he got home.
😃😃😃😃😃thats what i love about kellys Heroes these Memorable Quotes 😄😂😄😂😄😂
Epic Dialogue
The best war comedy of all time. What a cast of characters.
working on an army base at the time of this films release...had a lot of fun matching up the characters to members of our staff...[I got to be "kelly]
Yeah, complete with Jerry Seinfeld's uncle Leo. lol
Kelly's Hero's one of my Favorite Movies to watch. To all those who have Served and are Serving in are Armed Forces, and to those who Lost their Lives Serving and Protecting the U.S.A. Thank You and you will always will be Remembered.
The greatest American hero plated by a great Canadian actor, Donald Sutherland. He made oddball one of the most memorable characters to ever appear in a movie.😀🍿
Oh yeah man
...Odd Ball is my favorite
I especially like that part where he says: "I just ride 'em. I don't know how they work." And the look on Telly's face right after he says that is hilarious.
fuckin love telly, he is legend
@@softturd Telly had played a hard-boiled tank sergeant, Guffy, in the 1965 movie, "The Battle of Bulge", who is very, er...ENTREPENURIAL, and has a Belgian village girl, Louise (Pier Angeli) as his business partner. When the German attack is on, and Guffy and his surviving assistant driver, a young kid, bailed from their tank being rammed and knocked on its side (their crewmates got machine-gunned as they bailed) and made their way back to the rear, Guffy meets up with her to tell her to sell their remaining merchandise, as the Germans are on their way to take the town of Ambleve, and obviously they'll confiscate their stock, and probably shoot her as a profiteer. Guffy admonishes her for the condition of their chickens ("ya know what fresh eggs bring these days?"), and when he hands her the share of what he's sold, he hands him a rather impressive wad of cash. Guffy is shocked, and at first won't accept it, as, without her having sold a commensurate amount of stock, he fears she's been whoring herself out to make ends meet. Louise understands why Guffy is reluctant, and, although she's a bit offended, explains that "when a woman goes into business with a man, it's 'forever' ", confessing her love for him. Guffy is perplexed, as he'd never pressured her for sex, but Louise explains that's why...she feels he respects her. Realizing that he's been in love likewise with Louise all along, he hands her all his money, explaining, "hey, you get shot, and before they get the plasma in ya, some guy is running his hands through your pockets", meaning he believes the medics or fellow soldiers will steal from a stricken man. Louise begs Guffy to kiss her and he does as he has to rejoin his unit.
Later, when he's back at division HQ to be assigned to an improvised tank unit (to mount a last-ditch stand before the German Tiger brigade crosses the Meuse river), after the battle in which Ambleve was taken by Col. Hessler's armored brigade, Guffy asks a officer about news of the town. When told there was "nothing left of it", he's crestfallen, and tearfully turns to General Grey (Robert Ryan) and asks, "When they gonna let us fight?". Not necessarily being gung-ho, just wanting to avenge the woman he loved.
@@selfdo I remember his tank was named "bargain basement"
He was also outstanding in the dirty dozen playing "maggot"
"It paints pretty pictures, scares the crap out of people." I loled so hared at this!
Now this is just a regular 76 mm gun, but we put this pipe on it and Germans think maybe we got a 90mm.
Right now our country needs men like these again, more than ever before.
Guys who didn't need to be catered to by use of their preferred pronouns and knew which restrooms to use? They'd never make it in today's Army - at least not until after the Pentagon was destroyed.
The movie was actually based on a true story, and to this day not all of the 'Nazi Gold' has been accounted for. What I loved about oddball's character was that at the end he didn't go AWOL with stolen gold with the rest of them, but that he used his share of the gold to buy the Tiger tanks from the German officer in order to replace the ones his platoon had lost during the battle.
Only one of the Tigers was serviceable. The other two, he'd managed to get a shot "right in it's ass", i.e., where the armor was the weakest, presumably taking out its engine and puncturing its fuel tanks. The way the second one, taken out in the alley after it's caught, unable to traverse its turret to get off a shot at Oddball's Sherman (big mistake on the part of the Tiger's commander, he ought to have made immediately for the edge of the town, and position the tank to cover it, hoping for a shot at the Sherman, or to take care of any other forces threatening the bank) blows up after the second round penetrates its rear (the first one being a "paint" round), somehow, it must have touched off an 88 mm round.
What's sort of "dark" about the film, aside from two of the men in Big Joe's platoon literally "buying the farm" in the plowed field, sown with mines, is that one of the three Sherman's from Oddball's platoon is burning, with no mention as to whether the crew bailed...or NOT. The other one is stuck in the river, as it probably tried to ford and presumably foundered on the soft bottom. No mention also of its crew; we saw them in the scene where they're "chilling" with some local girls, including a local woman, hanging wash, literally barefoot and pregnant. We also saw them in the brief "battle" (more an outright massacre, including French CIVILIANS) in the railyard, as the Shermans emerge from the rail tunnel, playing loud country music over their loudspeakers, and later when they paused to cross the river and saw the bridge ("It's still up...(POW, as it's bombed by some obliging P-47s)...no, it ain't!") they'd pinned their hopes on crossing being taken out. While obviously the inadvertent penetration in the German lines is resulting in a lopsided victory, with General Colt, of course, taking all the credit, it's not without cost. We forget in all the guffawing and laughter over this ludicrous and hilarious tale is that it was set in WWII, and men DIED.
There you go, what’s with all the negative waves.😂😂
@@selfdoThey didn't really die, it was just good acting. Like those monkeys in Planet of the Apes
"Have a little faith, Crapgame, they are beautiful people."
This guy is having all the best lines in the movie.
Yes - a great movie, but a classic where the No.2 billed actor totally and utterly steals the show from the No.1!
67 thumbs down really? come on folks this is one of the best war comedies ever made and your thumbs downing it? great flick, great actors all around, and funny as hell. i got to go watch the whole movie now, kelly's heros rocked!
+Dominique Hardie They better knock it off with them negative waves.
+Trans ExFeminist Autism Why don't they dig how beautiful it is here?Why can't they post something righteous and hopeful for a change?
+oldrocker74 crap!
+oldrocker74 They're definitely anti-social types. Woof Woof
+Trans ExFeminist Autism That's my other dog impression.
The initial meeting scenes between Eastwood & Sutherland are my favourite ever in any [anti] war movie. I get the impression that Clint genuinely wondered what Sutherland was like after the 'calms us down' line - his facial expression is priceless!
Strangely, one of my favorite movies of all time. The cast is fantastic and the story line is great. I mean, who casts Don Rickles as a soldier, or Donald Sutherland for that matter? Brilliant! The soldier who fought in WWII were ordinary people. This is an entirely feasible plot!
That reflects some of the REALITY of a large-scale draftee Army. Crapgame and Oddball are not exactly "military" types, though they're each quite talented at what they do, but each in their UNIQUE way, on THEIR terms. Crapgame, a semi-parody of quartermaster sergeants/chiefs everywhere, is a mercenary ("Ok, Kelly, what's in it for me?"), out to make a few (hundred thousand) bucks here and there for his trouble, while to Oddball, life's one big party. They're actually EXTRA-ordinary, b/c they managed to get away with how they operate!
Rickles served in the Navy in WW2
The question now is who is going to fight in WW3. Senators sons? Or just us ordinary people
@@kamakaziozzie3038 Few sons of those in the "political class", or those of highly-placed corporate folks, will be in uniform to catch rounds produced from TulaAmmo. Even fewer will be those of Democrats, and virtually NONE who are Jewish.
Archie Bunker as a general is classic too.
I love the little "wow" that Oddball mouths when they hit the Tiger with the paint shell.
Haha didn't notice that till you pointed it out, nice catch.
Taras Shevchenko Makes me wonder if that "wow" was scripted or if Donald Sutherland was genuinely impressed by the fired paint job done to the tank. I heard a lot of stuff he said in this classic was either unscripted or he changed some of the words around on the fly.
“Why don’t you knock it off with those negative waves?” Vibe check
I use this line all the time around negative people and they don't get it.
Tzipora Bronson
It ain’t my fault oddball.
I had nothing but positive thoughts, but this tank is a piece of shit. It leaks radiator fluid all over the place, it's a piece of shit.
Ramon Rodriguez I remember Moriority stating, "Its a pice of Junk.". "The fuel systems leaks all over the place. Its a piece of junk,". It was filmed in the 60's and released in the seventies. we were spared of todays hollywoods language.
@@ivangranger8494
Was the version you saw on TV? May very well have had the sweary words dubbed out.
People swore and cursed just as much back then, *_especially_* in the military.
It's not 'Hollywood's language' - it's just language.
Still one of my favourite movies.It's got it all. So well cast. WOOF, WOOF!
Is that your dog imitation, or your other dog imitation?
Born in the 70's....spent my childhood quoting this movie ...lay off with the negative vibes...Great movie....Great sound track.
And quoting it wrongly. Negative waves, not negative vibes...
“Have a little faith baby have a little faith”.Words to live by.....
Agreed
George Michael had Faith, didn't him much good in the end.
@@CB-xr1eg he got a new tank didn't he?
@@sgtpaloogoo2811 Did he?
@@CB-xr1eg well, the fuel line leaked all over the place.
I think Donald Sutherland should have won a best supporting actor Oscar for his part as Oddball in this movie........
Well, he would get a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in "M*A*S*H" in '70 and again for "Ordinary People" in '81. And turned a great performance in a non-comic role in "Klute" (1971)
Ordinary People. Wow. Stunning acting all around.
And he played an Absolute Bustard in "Eye of the Needle." Great actor, with a tremendous range.
Don't forget MASH with Sutherland as Hawkeye. Another war comedy classic.
Odball The original Jeffrey Lebowsky
This was my all time favorite movie as a kid.
Memories...
This movie has to have the largest All-Gold cast in it as well as being the most uynder-rated movie of all time. A comedy classic I have loved since I was a kid. "Look at that will ya? They even have the gravediggers in on this!"
I'm not sure it's underrated, afaik the reception back then was well, box office was alright, the rating on IMDb is well above 7
Oddball was a true military Genius... Negativity is always destructive.
Always audacity (even in a covering defensive action, if needed.)
Bring it or don't show up.
It turns out the classic image of a cavalry charge crashing into a shield wall hardly ever works out. Usually the wall decided the collumn isn't going to stop, and yields, or the column decides the wall isn't going to break, and veers off.
Each man makes his own decision about whether it's in his best interests to let everyone else occupy the enemy, while he exercises "the better part of valor".
Donald Sutherland what a bloody good actor
villiers man - He was superb in "Eye of the Needle" where he plays a German spy living incognito in England in WW2.
Donald Sutherland depiction of Oddball is one of cinemas most memorable and quotable characters ever.
After I watched that movie that song by Mike Curb congregation represented turn from 60's to 70's, just an absolute gem,
Oddball was a misfit bohemian gem, so many gems that movie, big Joe, crapgame, cowboy all misfits, together left an impression.
You could almost smell the diesel, cigarette smoke, liquor, engine oil, gunpowder and body odour coming off the screen.
12 years later this comes up in my suggested.
So many great lines, great actors, an underrated classic.
I'm trying to think of some other great under rated or little known movies. Try Gene Wilder and Don Sutherland in "start the revolution without me", I think it is called, I have the DVD over there somewhere. Also "the great train robbery" with Sean Connery and Leslie Anne Down. She was beautiful.
Maybe one of the most underrated movies ever.
For sure! And what a cast,yeah?
This was a child hood wonderful take me back I love this movie and the song
Probably one of my favorite movies of all time. As someone else commented, it is so underrated. The cast is awesome, Donald Sutherland's Oddball is hilarious, one of the best parts of the movie; paint filled ammunition baby ... LOL; such talent. I have the DVD and probably watched it a million times by now. Never gets old. Telly Savalas, Clint Eastwood and Don Rickles ... all amazing. Major chemistry, good casting. LOVE IT!!!!
"We got a loud speaker here and when we go into battle we play the music very loud, kind of ... calms us down."
Sandy Marketich ...such as 'I been working Om the Railroad'!
Put on psy war op. Make it loud
During field training we did someting similar, we trolled the company arias in a jeep and played Bad Moon Rising real loud. the OP guys stood up like meer kats.
The 70's was a special decade.
My favorite decade for movies and music....freedom was everywhere..
@@JohnSmith-kz8yo Amen, brother! So wonderful to be young, strong, and beautiful. Seger was right. Many is the day I "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." From the perspective of WAY too many years I can see how embarrassingly clueless and careless I was, but DAMN it was fun! Peace
stay safe be well
This was filmed in 1967.
I wish I could remember the 70s
No, it was actually a pretty shi*ty decade. Some great movies and music, to be sure, but otherwise it was awful.
Greatest ÉVER !! Foréver classic with Oddball and Kelly insurmountable, in fact ALL cast ! Yet GREAT STUFF, after all these years ~ thank you kindly!! 👊🔥⁉️🥂
"We ain`t got no booze", oh yes, this is one of the best films ever, we watch it every Xmas eve.......... sad but true.
Classic. Oddball was a hippie before his time.
Bravo Donald .."odd ball" one of the greatest almost forgotten, war movies with excellent humor !!! excellent !!
Troy Martin wrote the movie based on a true story. For the film, he looked up "the greatest robbery on record" and found that it was of the German National Gold Reserves in Bavaria by a combination of U.S. military personnel and German civilians, thus Kelly's Heroes. I've found that films that convey the craziest stories are often based in fact. It's a strange world we live in.
And they ain’t found it all YET
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When I was a tanker in the mid 80s, Oddball was my hero. And seriously, we were just like his platoon. We had lawn chairs, and a charcoal grill on our tank We has so much stuff on our tanks we weren't suppose to have. We even hooked up a cassette player to our intercom system.
Drinking wine and eating cheese. Positive waves for 40+ years.
Catching some rays....(he’s the original Spicoli.
-" FIRE!"
*splat*
"wow."
-" THATS PAINT!"
OMG I never noticed that part 😂😂
lol the reaction time of his crew was epic
There you go again with them negative waves!! It´s not paint! It´s a... a psy-ops demoralizing shell!! It makes pretty pictures.
I certainly didn't expect to see the Spanish Inquisition here, but then again nobody ever does
lmfao paintball then a 75mm Explosive
Definitely one of Eastwood's best movies! Sutherland should have gotten "Best Supporting Actor" for that role for sure!!! A true classic. KILROY WAS HERE- UP YOURS BABY!!!!
Leaves me with a positive wave response watching this 1970 Comedy with Great Performances from a Legendary cast,Some not with us anymore R I P Including the late Telly Savalas and The late Don Rickles to Carroll O'Connor to David Hurst and Karl Otto Alberty as the German Tank commander to name who were hilarious in this .Great lines and Memorable hilarious performances to Drama also in this .A film I can watch time and time again ❤No time for negative waves either 😂🤣😂🤣
Best scene in any war film ever has to be the one where the tank breaks down in the middle of the battle and big joe and some soldiers come up to oddball who's just sitting there and oddball says "hi man", big joe replies "what are you doing?" and oddball says, "I'm drinking wine, eating cheese and catching some rays....you know". Then he goes on to do his 'other' dog imitation lmao. Its brilliantly delivered and Donald Sutherland in that instant was the best soldier character anyones ever played in a war film.
It s more ore less a copy of the brave soldier Švejk. Written by Jaroslav Hašek .Google and read.
@@jellyrun1 Never heard of it
He's in France. Of course he'll drink wine and eat cheese. 😄
Best character in any movie????Possible....
We like to feel we can get out of trouble quicker than we can get in it. Words to live by in life.
"Always with the negative ways" classic Oddball.
3:12 - just before this scene is one of my favorite quotable lines: "did you lose my aerial photographs?"
The best cast of the best war movie ever.......” We ain’t got no booze “......
Love it when he finally negotiated the Tiger, capped it all of brilliantly. Oddball was off his head but so cool, great film.
"Look Crapgame, to a New Yorker like you a HERO is some kind of weird sandwich, not a nut who takes on three Tigers with one Sherman!" BEST LINE EVER!!!
One of the best movies ever made.
I was drafted in 1970. First night of basic training I found myself in a temporary WW2 baricks. Across the street was a Quonsette Hut Theater showing "Kelly's Heroes" and "Mash" at Fort Knox, Ky. Both of these military masterpieces were my guide for the duration of being "Government Property".
I went into jump school straight out of basic and Platoon was the movie playing. Didn't exactly set up the same positive waves, man. 😜
Most movies I give a pass to as to the real story but the one that gets me in Full Metal Jacket. I liked the movie but as a US ARMY vet, I like to ask -- "Do Marines really have live weapons and ammo in barracks with Basic Training Grunts?" It's a good thing I say that Hartman was killed in the shower by Gomer Pyle. Because in the Army, had he obtained a active weapon (one with a firing pin - ours weren't installed until we went to the rifle range) and LIVE AMMO, he would have been given a Dishonorable and kicked out of the Army. So I really doubt that scene because weapons even in USA posts are kept in a strong room with a lock. Good example is in From Here to Eternity when the Pearl Harbor attack starts the Marines are stopped at the door of the arms storage and have to over power the guard to get at the rifles.
Thank you everyone for your service
I saw Stripes during basic training at Ft. Dix NJ, and that's the fact Jack
As an Army vet, I get tickled at the of people who never served. Most think that we were constantly fighting. These great movies tell the true story especially Stripes (what goes on in peace time / Cold War). Bill Murray's comments were spot on. We have 2 or 3 "Class Clowns" in our unit. One was a Black guy Anderson from New Orleans and he was in my platoon. He mentored me. 1) The DI's cannot by law hit a recruit or put them in harms way -- in the 1950s some Gungho Marine DI, night marched his squad into a lake in the middle of the night - several drowned. Congress passed a LAW that guards recruits and trainees from physical violence. Recently at Ft Hood and Ft Bliss, some women were raped and murdered. In those cases the 3 Star General got dismissed never to command again. I don't give a darn what the Marines say -- get grunts killed (non-combat) and your ass is gone! 2) If you can only do 10 pushups all you have to do is just stay lying down and tell the Sgt "10 is ALL I can do Sarge". The Sgt can get mad as hell but can't hit you no matter how they feel. 3) The Full Metal Jacket movie. As a vet I had to walk out to the lobby when the Gook sniper started killing our guys. It was real. War is the failure of humans to compromise or settle differences. The biggest joke is currently (my view) that Putin has rebuilt the Russian military back to Soviet days....PLEASE - its a bumFrick country which has 1/3 the GDP output as California, New York and Texas -- How can you be a superpower when so many countries are providing better jobs, money systems, security, and legal systems and Putin has a low 2nd Tier country smaller in output than 3 of our states.
The best scene is Telly Savalas getting near a resting seated Odball and the ''Hi man'' and the face of Savalas when Odball explains he ''only ride them''. Cracks me up...
One of my top 10 favorite movies. I've seen it 100 times I bet. Oddball was such a misplaced hippie but a great supporting role. "You zee Ameriken army" "No baby we ain't the American army"
I've lived my whole life living oddballs philosophy...life's been good!
What's the line from that song? "sometimes I go to parties until after 4. It's hard to leave when you can't find the door"?
I waited on Donald Sutherland once, super nice guy - I spilled some water at his table and he covered for me by pretending it was his fault.
Nice! :)
That was very nice of him. Here's a story just the opposite A good friend of mine was a busboy at a restaurant called Who's on First in NYC back in the early 80's. Farrah Fawcett & Ryan O'Neal were there. He spilled some water ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM, and they both had him fired! Shows how sometimes fame can go to some people's heads and some people like Donald Sutherland are just nice guys!
Tragic story! Not just that the Hollywood Snobs would complain about that... but that it would actually be cause for Termination! The saying goes, 'You're Not A Server 'Til You've Spilled Something'! & I Do Mean On Someone! Had heard those two were a tad hoity-toity when not on camera!
That is a supper cool story! Always loved Mr. Sutherland & hoped he was as cool off-screen as when on! As we all know... the acid test of this is how one treats a sever!
Not surprised. the stories about O'Neal acting like an asshole are endless.
First time I saw this flick was when stationed along the Czech border as a US army armored cavalry tanker. "I dunno' what makes 'em run.. " the greatest movie line ever
Miss these Old Movies about American Heroes.
''Don't be hitting me those negative waves so early in the morning.'' That brings back the 70's like a four way hit of Mr. Natural. Those were the days my friend. That's what we need more of today. Hippie's twenty years ahead of the beat generation.
Peace.
"like a four way hit of Mr. Natural"... Dude, OMG... your right, those were the days!
Oddball was simply ahead of his time.
"I only ride them, I don't know what makes them work"- Oddball and every man ever
Thats what he said
the recruiter told me I wouldn't have to work on my tank. the only lie he ever told me. Steel on Steel.
@@chuckfinley6156 Hehee, you must have cursed that recruiter when you busted a track in the field 🤣
thank amc for playing this almost every weekend back before they started producing their own shows (love breaking bad) but nothing beat the old war movies
One of the best films ever!
"60 feet of bridge I can pick up almost anywhere", hehe, brilliant!
The most Underrated Movie of all Times ! Wolf ! Wolf ! No more Negative Waves...
This movie does to WWII movies what the spaghetti westerns did to cowboy movies. The earlier films made sure the heroes were heroes, selfless, honest, hard working, doing what's right. This is a heist movie. Love it.
My absolute favorite movie of all time. When it came to my hometown theater back in the early 70's, I went to see it 5 times in a row. My dad later have me the video tape for a B day present. Such an under rated movie.
I served in the 35th and believe me when I say we had guys just like this in there. Best damn duty I pulled in my 18 years. I’ve got the unit patch tattooed on my left shoulder. 🇺🇸