Kelly's Heroes (1970) poster
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Kelly's Heroes

AdventureComedyWar

Directed by Brian G. Hutton

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines. From TMDB

171 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works

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Kelly's Heroes is a 1970 adventure comedy war film, directed by Brian G. Hutton, starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland.

  • 129 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews
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  • Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2025

    I just found the most amazing gift for my dad on TikTok. A video came up of someone who made a 2026 Kelly's Heroes calendar. He loves this movie so much. He played that damn song so often when I was growing up. An immediate purchase.

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  • Tammy Golden @tammygolden.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2024

    UMMMM So I'm watching Kelly's Heroes which takes place in September of 1944 and in the background is a box of Almond Joys, which were not invented until 1946. So how can I take this film seriously?! #inaccuratecandy #almondjoyless

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  • John Bull @garius.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2024

    PRO-TIP: Kelly's Heroes/Star Wars: Rogue One is an excellent cinematic double bill. Makes you realise how much of a 70s counter-culture war movie Rogue One is.

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  • Hutch @hutchinlondon.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    Late to this year's #festivetankchallenge what with shenanigans, but finally made a start. Who doesn't love Kelly's Heroes. An iconic WW2 movie I watched loads, and always seemed to be on at Christmas. My mum though Don Sutherland was great. #spreadthelard

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  • BrokenFiction @brokenfiction.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2024

    Damn, RIP Donald Sutherland. This was my favorite character he ever played: Oddball in Kelly's Heroes. Loved him so much I based an entire BattleTech campaign in high school around this film. :)

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  • Jeremy Williams @jerqwills.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2025

    Can't believe it's already Last 4 Friday again: Zorba The Greek (1964) 23 Paces To Baker Street (1956) The Sand Pebbles (1966) Kelly's Heroes (1970) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky 🎬🍿📽️

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  • Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey @beamjockey.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2026

    I just about plotzed the first time I saw a Kettenkrad halftracked motorcycle in a WWII movie, THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA (1969). I must add that KELLY'S HEROES(1970) made a commendable effort to create a fake German Tiger tank from a Soviet T-34. We teenaged armor buffs were pleased to see this.

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  • Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.ukBluesky · Oct 12, 2026

    Make a war film rubbish Lorraine Kelly's Heroes

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  • Colin Girth @bonuseruptus.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2026

    Sisu Freaks Out (best unofficial X-Men movie) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Raiders of the Lost Ark The Keep Kelly's Heroes Inglorious Basterds

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  • No Rules Film School @norulesfilmschool.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2025

    Donald Sutherland Steals the Show in Kelly’s Heroes (1970) | Reel Talk 🎞️ youtube.com/shorts/5Hf8t... via #DonaldSutherland #KellysHeroes #70sMovies #ClassicCinema #WarMovies #ReelTalk

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  • Jeremy Williams @jerqwills.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2024

    Last 4 watched: Dark Passage (1947) Conflict (1945) Kelly's Heroes (1970) The Lady From Shanghai (1947) Looking directly into Lauren Bacall's eyes in Dark Passage is almost too much for us mere mortals. 🎬🍿📽️ #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky

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  • Patrick "I'm Patman" Sponaugle @patman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2024

    Kelly's Heroes is a solid movie.

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  • Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    July 4th weekend movie playlist: • Kelly's Heroes (1970) • To Hell and Back (1955) • Hell is for Heroes (1962) • The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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  • Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2026

    personally what I want is a plucky Kelly's Heroes/MASH type movie about hospitals, cops and national guardsmen taking steps to hide COVID tests and PPE from Trump, whose strategy forced states to overpay for supplies only to have them seized by the Feds and shipped to swing states.

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  • John C @badsocialism.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2025

    Anyway the flight entertainment had Kelly's Heroes, which is obviously fun as a film in itself as a satire of the 1950s war films

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  • Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2026

    Kelly's Heroes is the first feature film that my dad recorded onto video cassette for us all to watch as a family. I say "video cassette" rather than, say, VHS or Betamax, because it was neither of those. Oh no. It was one of these, or more accurately four of these -

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  • Allan "Pealed Grapes" Mott @houseofglib.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2024

    Just blocked someone for implying that KELLY'S HEROES is a bad movie and then I blocked the four people who liked it.

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  • MJ @texson6886.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    We can all agree that Die Hard is mosdef a Christmas movie but, I think Kelly's Heroes is also one thanks to Tiger Tanks, Oddball, and Kilroy's appearance at the end...

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  • Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2026

    “Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?" [Kelly's Heroes] 🎭 Remembering Hollywood legend #DonaldSutherland, #BOTD 17 July 1935. #Film #Filmmaking

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  • PGJ @pgj.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    Now watching 'Kelly's Heroes', a WWII film in which a bunch of self serving, opportunistic Americans go rogue, disregard protocol, make deals with actual Nazis and plunder a war torn country of its wealth....because they can. Where do they get such crazy ideas??? youtu.be/QFRczUhjhU4?...

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  • John Ossoway @ottomancer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2025

    Lalo Schifrin wrote so many incredible film and TV scores. This is still my favourite. youtu.be/nkqF0EED6AA?... Kelly's Heroes is up there too.

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  • Canopyflyer @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 10, 2026

    Princess Bride Strictly Ballroom Paul Close Encounters of the Third Kind Star Wars 4,5,6 LOTR all of them Operation Petticoat Dr Strangelove The Great Race Pacific Rim The Abyss True Lies Alien Aliens Clue The Cutting Edge Forbidden Planet Harry Potter series Kelly's Heroes The Last Starfighter Young Frankenstein Raiders of the Lost Ark The Rocky Horror Picture Show Star Trek movies: Wrath of Khan, First Contact Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines Gumball…

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  • Tom @writer77.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2024

    Not a D-Day movie but because of #DDAY80GB my ears are tuned to the Normandy references in Kelly's Heroes: Big Joe's squad and Oddball's Shermans landed on Omaha beach and Moriarty has seen Tigers before...

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  • Jack-In-The-Dark @jackinthedark.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    The show is basically "What is tank fights was a women's sport?" and Kelly's Heroes is a movie that is referenced, and watched, by characters in the show. So there's not really an equivalent, but Yukari here calls herself "Sgt Oddball" at one point.

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  • Hoosier Homer is reading The Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend @hoosierhomer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    I have a hard time with any movie that people declare to be the "most real" period. Fury was a weird middle ground supposed to be taking itself seriously, but then fails to have any deep thoughts, and the climax was silly. I felt more tension in the tiger fight in Kelly's Heroes

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  • Mark Primiano @doctor1hundred.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2026

    One of the main things I took away from reading too many Garth Ennis comic books was that he also loved the hell out of the movie Kelly's Heroes as a kid.

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  • Wyrd-Woman @wyrdwoman.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2025

    loved him in Kelly's Heroes - my favorite war movie.

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  • ArcaneSlime @[email protected]Lemmy · Dec 4, 2024

    If it's about a romance during wartime, it *is* both a romance and a war movie, just as Kelly's Heroes is a heist film, a war movie, and a comedy a rolled into one. If it's about German terrorists taking over a Christmas party and being thwarted with a lot of action by a cop, it's a Christmas movie, a cop movie, and an action movie. And Top Gun *is* a romance movie, a *gay* romance movie. Who can forget "playing with the boys?" (Not passing judgement, if Mavrick got Goose's goose that's…

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  • Burke Means To Smother @timwburke.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 18, 2024

    Introduce yourself with: One book: Salems Lot One film: Kelly's Heroes One album: "Heaven or Las Vegas" Cocteau Twins One TV show: Kolchak The Night Stalker

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  • Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2026

    My favourite films of the 1970s: 70: Kelly's Heroes 71: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 72: Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii 73: The Wicker Man 74: Chinatown 75: Monty Python and the Holy Grail 76: Bugsy Malone 77: Star Wars 78: Big Wednesday 79: The Muppet Movie

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  • Steve (low effort Halloween name edition) 👻 @chompmancobra.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2025

    Top five film genres: 5. Probably thrillers, I mean I do seem to watch a lot of them 4. Screwball comedies 3. War Movies 2. Heist Movies 1. War Movies that are also Heist Movies that are Screwball Comedies, ok fine it is Kelly's Heroes

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  • William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2025

    Share an awesome 70s movie! Kelly's Heroes

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  • Chris Sims @theisb.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    On the way home, we checked to see if this anti-Nazi series included Kelly's Heroes because AC told me this was the only Clint Eastwood movie she thinks she's seen. They're not, but Kelly's Heroes is worth just popping onto the TV.

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  • ᗩᘔᒪEᑎᗪ @azlend.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2025

    Kelly's Heroes. The best WWII movie.

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  • Trëy @quiksnowboard7.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2025

    #FilmHistory On this day in 1970, the WWII comedy-drama heist film, Kelly's Heroes, was released. The film was a US-Yugoslav co-production, filmed mainly in the Croatian village of Vižinada. The Mike Curb Congregation's recording of "Burning Bridges" reached #34 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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  • Brian Jopek @[email protected]Mastodon · Oct 31, 2026

    When Don Rickles takes a shot at Republicans. 😁 #MoviesOfMastodon #ADEALdeal #KellysHeroes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqw0Gz9GahM&ra=m

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2026

    #Bales2026FilmChallenge #Bales2026MovieChallenge Oct. 18 - war movie you would recommend to people who hate war movies Kelly's Heroes (1970) #filmsky #moviesky ...a group of U.S. soldiers moves across enemy lines in WWII France to find a secret stash of Nazi treasure...

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  • BrokenFiction @brokenfiction.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    War film guilty pleasures? Kelly's Heroes. I built an entire Battletech campaign out of this movie in high school. 😍

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2026

    Yeah, I love Kelly's Heroes. It has a really great ensemble cast. You're right about Donald and Don and Archie, uh I mean, Carroll😂. That movie wouldn't work without them. Finally, I love 'Burning Bridges'...but it is a bizarre choice for a war movie.

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  • Jacob Hausdorf @jhausdorf.bsky.socialBluesky · May 25, 2026

    I think Kelly's Heroes is the one movie/media that actually depicts the Tiger as garbage and not necessarily as the uberweapon every one else does.

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge April 9 - movie that takes place during World War II that is NOT Saving Private Ryan Kelly's Heroes (1970) #filmsky #moviesky

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  • George Merchant Ballentyne @gmballentyne.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    Every time I watch a feature film in 2026. No. 11, “Kelly’s Heroes” (1970) this afternoon on BBC Two HD. www.imdb.com/title/tt0065938/ #MyMovies2026 #KellysHeroes ⭐️⭐️

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  • Corpyburd @corpyburd.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    Check out the town that doubles for Tremoli in SAS Rogue Heroes S2. It had been used before in WW2 war film Kelly's Heroes.

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  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 25, 2025

    * Hudson Hawk - silly movie where the thieves use songs to sync up during heists * Kelly's Heroes - WW2 soldiers try and steal some Nazi gold * Thomas Crown Affair - if you can look past it being about a rich guy stealing art out of boredom, it's not bad * Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Western, train heist, good dialog and characters

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  • DagwoodIII @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 25, 2025

    Old gold. "The Split" with Jim Brown and Donald Sutherland. Based on a Parker novel "The Hot Rock" with Robert Redford [comedy] "The Killing" Kubrick's second movie. "Kelly's Heroes" WW2 soldiers sneak in ahead of Patton's army to rob a Nazi bank.

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  • Jam2 @jam2.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2025

    ALPHABET MOVIES💖💖💖📽️📽️📽️: Think of one Movie you really like that begins with the letter K and add here (pic, poster, GIF, scene ) My Choice- Kelly's Heroes (1970) Your Choice? (Add To This Post) youtu.be/TzsNh3-FnHQ?...

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  • PaulyMac 🇨🇦 @mrpaulymac.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 12, 2025

    Huge fan of his role in Kelly's Heroes. He wasn't the lead, but he stole every scene he was in. This was one of those ensemble WWII movies. Eastwood, Savalas, & Rickles to name a few of the megastars in it. Fantastic film.

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  • cageyratfish (they) UTC-7 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2024

    M*A*S*H, Kelly's Heroes, Johnny Got His Gun - these were all anti-war films, set in other wars but very much commenting on the Vietnam war - i think a lot about how that kind of war satire film was entirely absent over the last 20 years, instead we got glorified recruiting films.

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  • MrJameGumb @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 24, 2024

    [This website](https://rarefilmm.com/2019/04/les-morfalous-1984/) appears to have Les Morfalous available to watch in it's entirety for free. Seems like a legit site, but I've never used it before so click at your own risk lol According to Wikipedia: "It is a remake of the 1970 American war film Kelly's Heroes."

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  • Grumpygirl 🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sotired.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2026

    The movie is Kelly's Heroes as I forgot to include that in the alt text lol

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  • BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2026

    Make a war film rubbish Henry Kelly's Heroes

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  • TankovayaDiviziya @[email protected]Lemmy · Aug 14, 2026

    At first, the history nerd in me went "What? This is historically inaccurate!" But upon repeat multiples viewings, because my country's national TV constantly re-runs Kelly's Heroes, I now find it as one of the most fun war movies I have ever watched!

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  • Boo Scott👻 @bluescott.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    Fav film for each year in the 70s 70: Kelly's Heroes 71: McCabe & Mrs. Miller 72: Jeremiah Johnson 73: Enter the Dragon 74: Blazing Saddles 75: Jaws 76: Assault on Precinct 13 77: Star Wars 78: Dawn of the Dead 79: Alien

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  • GTC @gtcarisson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    #JuneMovieChallenge Day 6 - something is invaded in a movie Kelly's Heroes (1970) #filmsky🎥 #moviesky🎥 The German rear lines are invaded for a free enterprise operation. youtu.be/8B5nWqjq-sE?...

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  • 💀The Legend of Del House💀 @howdydoomsday.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    I'm not wild about Fellini's 8 1/2. That's why I've only seen it just the one time. Made peace with the fact it's a great movie that just isn't for me. In the same way that I've made peace with how some people can't appreciate Kelly's Heroes or Cherry 2000. A man's got to know his limitations.

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  • AL 🏴‍☠️✨🎻 don't forget your fiddle! @adotzimm.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2026

    MASTER AND COMMANDER (unironically one of my favorites) also Kelly's Heroes, classic Dad movie

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  • John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    It's a film that defies expectations, one that refuses to be boxed in by genre cataloguing - Kelly's Heroes: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... via @bbciplayer

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  • Cara Sutra @carasutra.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    Hubby's favourite war film on TV, Kelly's Heroes, so he's happy (& in the process of building some new bookcases that arrived this morning). I'm enjoying lovely hot comforting soup. 😊 #Saturday

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  • Jess @murdersheherwrote.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    Kelly's Heroes is on telly! Who wouldn't love an anachronistic hippy tank driver in a World War 2 comedy heist film

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Jun 15, 2025

    For Day 14... Fave soldiers in film... #Bales2025FilmChallenge Going for Kelly's Heroes.. with the fab all star cast.. Kelly's Heroes (1970) weegiemidget.wordpress.com/collaboratio...

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Clint Eastwood
Sergeant First Class Kelly
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Telly Savalas
Master Sergeant "Big Joe"
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Donald Sutherland
Sgt. Oddball (Tank Commander)
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Don Rickles
Staff Sergeant "Crapgame"
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Carroll O'Connor
Major General Colt
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Gavin MacLeod
Moriarty (Tank Crewman)
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Hal Buckley
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Stuart Margolin
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