History Film / KellysHeroes

* InferredHolocaust - Genuine military-history experts who've watched this film agree that [[spoiler:Oddball's tank crew almost certainly would've died after leaving the scene in a damaged Tiger (in German uniforms, no less), blown up by Allied air patrols or other friendly fire. Kelly's own group probably would've gotten shot and/or arrested for riding back across the American lines in a German truck. The German tank crew might well be the only ones who got away clean to spend all that gold!]]
** That's assuming that Kelly and company went back to the American lines. Earlier in the movie it's mentioned that they're only a couple hours drive away from Switzerland.

* NaziGold: 14,000 bars of it. (16 million dollars worth)

* FriendOrFoe - In the first scene, the titular group is getting mortared upon by their own side. Later, a plane flies over, shooting at them. It's American.

-->'''Moriarty:''' "Look, Oddball, I can't fix it without the parts no matter how positive I think!"

* ExecutiveMeddling - According to Clint Eastwood, MGM, against both his wishes and those of director Brian G. Hutton, re-edited the film to remove some character-driven scenes and a more obvious anti-war message. This was also responsible for the addition of "Burning Bridges" as the title song, rather than the original theme composed by Lalo Shifrin.

* SoundtrackDissonance - Not really in the soundtrack, but Oddball's tank plays soothing music the first time it fights onscreen. Explosions and shouting to several folksy tunes including [[CrowningMomentOfFunny ''I've been working on the Railroad'']], made doubly hilarious because they're blasting the crap out, among other things, a crew repairing a railroad bridge.

* MilitaryMaverick - Kelly, who is the primary instigator and motivator of the plan. His backstory indicates that he has been promoted on multiple occasions, but keeps getting busted down to private because of other people's mistakes.

* ShurFineGuns - Petuko's BAR machinegun jams at a critical moment during the ambush of the German barracks. Subverted in that he manages to clear it, just barely in time.

* KlutzTheSurgeon - Staff Sergeant Crapgame and First Sergeant Mulligan.

* RousingSpeech - Big Joe delivers a spoof of one, with true DrillSergeantNasty tone, trying to motivate the men to not treat a three day liberty at a dilapidated farmhouse as the crapsack it is. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MVlCMgSkTM See attached at 0:55]]

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--> Woof woof woof! That's my ''other'' dog imitation.

* MisfitMobilizationMoment

* WritersCannotDoMath - The gold value and number of bars simply cannot be made to both work out in accordance with what we're shown and told. The detailed math kudzu is on the Fridge. KellysHeroes page, if you're ''really'' interested in it.

* AllGermansAreNazis: Averted. In fact, the word "Nazi" is never spoken once. The Germans are just called "Germans," or sometimes "Krauts."

* CoolHat: Turk, one of Oddball's tank crew constantly wears a fez; also , Oddball's leather tanker's helmet probably qualifies.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "That nut's gotta be nuts."

* InferredHolocaust: Genuine military-history experts who've watched this film agree that [[spoiler:Oddball's tank crew almost certainly would've died after leaving the scene in a damaged Tiger (in German uniforms, no less), blown up by Allied air patrols or other friendly fire. Kelly's own group probably would've gotten shot and/or arrested for riding back across the American lines in a German truck. The German tank crew might well be the only ones who got away clean to spend all that gold!]]

* MidBattleTeaBreak: Literally. During the final battle, Oddball's tank breaks down, so he takes the opportunity to set up a nice little spread of bread and wine.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Carroll O'Connor plays a hilarious, over-the-top general Patton -I mean, Colt.
* NoodleIncident: the "something very special" that Oddball's boys have planned, that makes it impossible for them to start the mission that night. It's played with in that rather than hearing about it after the fact but never finding out what happened, we're told that it's ''going to happen'' -- and never find out what it was, nor is it ever mentioned again.
* NotSoDifferent: Our heroes invoke this when trying to talk down the German tank commander.

* TankGoodness:

* WritersCannotDoMath - The gold value and number of bars simply cannot be made to both work out in accordance with what we're shown and told. The detailed math kudzu is on the Fridge.KellysHeroes page, if you're ''really'' interested in it.

* KlutzTheSurgeon

* MulliganTheHeadsman

* [[CoolCar Cool Tank]] - Oddball's tank has a pipe attached to it to make its gun look bigger, it can shoot paint to "make pretty pictures," and it plays music, very loud.
** Tiger 115. [[spoiler:Even Oddball thinks so, seeing as how he uses his share of the gold to buy it from its crew.]]

Kelly's Heroes is a comedy/war movie made by MGM. It stars ClintEastwood, Telly Savalas, DonRickles, Donald Sutherland, and Carroll O'Connor. It's about a squad of American soldiers in {{WWII}} France who learn about a secret stash of [[NaziGold German gold]] in a bank deep behind enemy lines. Unappreciated by their clueless, profiteering captain and continually denied any chance at decent R&R, they are ripe for the promise of heroic adventure and enthusiastically embark on their new, unauthorized mission. With the help of tank commander Oddball and his squad of misfits, an incompetent artillery officer, a greedy supply officer, a marching band, a grave digger battalion, and eventually the very Germans they set out to fight, they might just succeed, and in the process win an improbable victory for the Allied forces.

* AnachronismStew - World War 2 looks an awful lot like the seventies. Look at Oddball's hair, for one, and listening to him talk is like, righteous, man.

* AttackAttackAttack - Spoken by name by the boisterous General Colt.

** Could also be considered a very unusual version of CrowningMusicOfAwesome.

* WritersCannotDoMath - The gold value and number of bars simply cannot be made to both work out in accordance with what we're shown and told. The detailed math kudzu is on the [[Fridge/{{Ptitleo3glbouj}} Fridge.Kelly's Heroes]] page, if you're ''really'' interested in it.