Kelly's Heroes

"Kelly's Heros" is an 1970 screwball black Comedy about a group of GIs who decedied to stage a raid behind German Lines to steal a cache of gold from the Nazis for themselves....

Cast

 * Clint Eastwood as Pvt Kelly


 * Telly Savalas as M/Sgt "Big Joe" before he landed his role as "Kojak" on Kojak


 * George Savalas as F/Sgt Mulligan before he landed his role on Kojak


 * Don Rickles as Sgt Sgt "Hustler" who sells fake german war suvernirs


 * Carroll O'Conner as Major General Colt before he landed his role on All in the Family and in In the Heat o the Night


 * Gavin Macleod as "Moriarty" before landing his role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Murray Slaugther


 * Stuart Margolin as Pvt "Little Joe" before landing his role on The Rockford Files as ANgel Martin


 * Donald Sunderland as Sgt "Oddball"- an anachronism is that he is a counterculture hippy from the 1960's-1970's not 1944!

Trivia

 * A possible inspiration -In 1945 General George patton sent a Task_Force_Baum a mixed group of light tanks and armored infantry consisiting of two companies; a Platoon and a command ans support element to try to rescue his son in law John walters who was a POW. the result was a total disaster