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I have enjoyed Kelly's Heroes ever since I saw it when I was 17 in the theater. I was always impressed with the correctness I saw in it as far as weapons. They had Tiger tanks, not M48s like "The Battle of the Bulge". I think it was filmed in Europe, where else would you find a Tiger in 1969? Well I was watching it some on Memorial Day when I noticed something that floored me. When they begin the assault on the Bank, their sniper kills the guards on the roof. I noticed his rifle, hmmmm...sure isn't a Springfield. What? It's a Mosin Nagant! Seems strange doesn't it, they have M1 Thompsons, and Sherman Tanks, but they couldn't come up with a Springfield or Garand? I was disappointed.
 
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I'll go with the fact that it was filmed mostly in Yugoslavia and that the sniper scene was likely written in after production started.

There's a good chance that Yugoslavia had Mosin sniper rifles available on short notice.

The Tiger Tanks used were actually T-34s dressed up to look like Tigers.

Yugoslavia used WWII era equipment into the 1980s. Some of that was supplied by the US, but some came from the USSR.

Because Tito wouldn't align solidly with the Soviet Bloc, Yugoslavia didn't always get cooperation when it came to arms and armament.

The Yugoslavian version of the SKS doesn't have the chrome lined barrels that the Russian and other Soviet Bloc versions do because the Soviets had the world's largest supply of chromium and refused to sell any to them.

Personally, I just enjoy the movie for what it is. A serio-comic WWII movie with good acting and good combat scenes. I ignore the so called "anti war" sentiments because they just don't impact the quality of the movie.
 
Well, being an outfit of irregulars, who is to say the sniper didn't pick up a Mosin Nagant in his travels in preference to a Springfield? I don't think the speakers on the tanks were standard issue either.....

It is nice to see a movie though that does make a stab at historical accuracy in the story line, or props being used.

My favorite "war movie" has to be Dr. Strangelove. You have to watch it several times to catch all the hidden irony...

Larry
 
One of my all time favorite movies. I remember going to see it in the theater when it fist came out. We loved quoting lines from that flick. That and Josey Wales.
 
Excellent movie. Really enjoyed seeing "Uncle Leo" from Seinfeld in a regular role, instead of the quirky uncle.
 
I am a big Eastwood fan and have been since "Rawhide", but Kelly`s heros is just silly and I never could make myself like it!
 
I'm going to have to watch it for the umpteenth time again now that you've brought up the Mosin use. I don't watch movies or videos; or should say new movies. Movies and video games have turned this country into the fat, lazy, violent, ignorant society that it is. Brain rot.

As far as I'm concerned, everything made since around the Kelly's Heros days has been worthless.

Except porn, of course...:eek:
 
Thanks for remember me to see Kelly's Heroes again. I like that movie to.

There are several movies that I forgiv that the weapons are not correct.

Suprisingly they are all with Clint Eastwood.

The Good, the Bad And the Ugly, Outlaw Josey Wales and Kelly's Heroes.
 
"I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know.."

Donald Southerland was pitch-perfect as the hippie-before-his-time Oddball.

"Woof woof, woof woof!":D
 
If you think about it, Eastwood was the only "big name" star and he wasn't even that big at the time.

1969, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, and Carrol O'Connor were known, but they weren't big. Rickles was a stand up comic best known for being on the Tonight Show. Kojac and All in the Family were in the future. MASH was in the future for Sutherland although there is some of his character in Kelly's Heroes in his portrayal. Of course Gavin MacLeod hadn't even met Mary Tyler Moore, let alone sailed the Love Boat.

Look through the cast listing and it's character actors and second bananas all the way.

It was also a very long movie at almost 2 1/2 hours. At that Eastwood complained about some of the cuts.





vigil617 said:
"I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know.."

Donald Southerland was pitch-perfect as the hippie-before-his-time Oddball.

"Woof woof, woof woof!":D
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Worst WWII movie I regret to say I ever saw. If I'd never seen that movie, it would've been better. Worst acting, worst historical accuracy, very anti-war (height of Vietnam protest movement), and worst of all comedic criticism of our soldiers. It's not nice to trash to call it trash.
 
DesertFox said:
I'm going to have to watch it for the umpteenth time again now that you've brought up the Mosin use. I don't watch movies or videos; or should say new movies. Movies and video games have turned this country into the fat, lazy, violent, ignorant society that it is. Brain rot.

As far as I'm concerned, everything made since around the Kelly's Heros days has been worthless.

Except porn, of course...:eek:
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Thanks,I just spit beer all over my phone 😄
 
I was college age when the movie came out. I laughed myself crazy when I saw it. It was the only movie that I have ever attended that the audience stood and applauded each actor at the ending credits. Lots of yelling and out loud laughing.

I thought the casting was absolutely fantastic. Just a great and entertaining flick.

My youngest son gave me the DVD for last Christmas. That move still makes me laugh out loud!
 
Thuer said:
What is the problem? It is just entertainment.
I ignore all the messages. I just like the movie.
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I agree, it's a movie ... a quasi comedy at that. I like it and have my own copy on DVD.

But there has always been one scene that bothered me. In the scene when Oddball and his three tanks attack the German installation through the railroad tunnel I have two observations. First, the song they are playing on the loudspeaker had not yet been written and recorded in 1944/45. Second, at that time there were no CD's, cassette tapes, or even 8 Track tapes so they had to be using a record player. Now really, there is no way they were playing a record on a turntable in a Sherman tank while it was traveling down railroad tracks and firing a 75mm cannon and a coaxial 30 caliber machine gun.
 
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