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''Kelly's Heroes'' is a 1970 war comedy film directed by Brian G. Hutton, about a group of World War II American soldiers who go AWOL to rob a bank behind enemy lines. The film stars Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, and Donald Sutherland, with secondary roles played by Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin MacLeod, and Stuart Margolin. The screenplay was written by British film and television writer Troy Kennedy Martin. The film was a US-Yugoslav co-production, filmed mainly in the Croat village of Vižinada on the Istria peninsula. ==Plot== During a thunderstorm in early September 1944, units of the 35th Infantry Division are nearing the town of Nancy, France. One of the division's mechanized reconnaissance platoons receives orders to hold their position while under counterattack from the Germans; the out-numbered platoon are also on the receiving end of mortar fire from their own side. Private Kelly (Clint Eastwood) has captured Colonel Dankhopf of German Intelligence. Interrogating his prisoner, Kelly notices the officer is carrying several gold bars, disguised under lead plating, in his briefcase. Curious, he gets the colonel drunk; the prisoner blurts out that there is a cache of 14,000 gold bars (later estimated to be worth $16,000,000) stored in a bank vault 30 miles behind enemy lines in the town of Clermont. When their position is overrun, a German Tiger tank shoots and kills Dankhopf. Kelly goes to secure supplies from the opportunistic supply sergeant "Crapgame" (Don Rickles), and mortar cover for the initial stage is arranged by a bribe to First Sergeant Mulligan (George Savalas). With their superior, Captain Maitland (Hal Buckley), neglecting his own duties, the men of Kelly's platoon are all eager to sign up, and after much arguing Kelly finally persuades skeptical Master Sergeant "Big Joe" (Telly Savalas) to sneak off and steal the gold. Others also invite themselves into the plan, such as a spaced-out tank platoon commander known as "Oddball" (Donald Sutherland) and his three Sherman tanks from the 6th Armored Division. Kelly decides that his team and Oddball's crew will proceed on separate paths and meet near Clermont. Oddball's tanks battle their way through the German lines, but their route is blocked when the last river bridge they need to cross is blown up by Allied fighter-bombers, forcing Oddball to let a bridging unit in on the caper. An American fighter plane mistakes Kelly's group for the enemy, destroying their vehicles and forcing them to continue on foot. They stray into a German minefield, and Private Grace is killed when he steps on a mine. While the others are gingerly extricating themselves, Kelly's troops are forced to engage in a firefight with an enemy patrol, during which Private Mitchell and Corporal Job are killed. The two parties meet two nights later and battle their way across the river of Clermont, leaving the engineers behind. When intercepted radio messages from the private raid are brought to the attention of gung-ho American Major General Colt (Carroll O'Connor), he misinterprets them as the efforts of aggressive patrols pushing forward on their own initiative and immediately rushes to the front to exploit the "breakthrough". Kelly's men find that Clermont is defended by three Tiger tanks with infantry support. The Americans are able to eliminate the German infantry and two of the Tigers, but the final tank parks itself right in front of the bank, and Oddball's Sherman breaks down, leaving them stymied. At Crapgame’s suggestion, Kelly offers the German tank commander (Karl-Otto Alberty) an equal share of the loot. After the Tiger blows the bank doors off, they divide up the spoils and go their separate ways, just barely managing to avoid meeting the still-oblivious Colt. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kelly's Heroes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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