Kelly's Heroes

This is starting to become a movie blog, reason being the fast approaching exams and it is this period when I see a lot of movies as every other activity on campus comes to a halt and I, for one don't like studying.

Coming to the movie, this is a 1970 war flick....no caper is the right word. lifting lines from a comment on imdb...this is Ocean's Eleven made in a battlefield or was Ocean's Eleven kelly's Heroes done in casinoes.

Anyways, the film is set in WW II after the Normandy Landing when the Americans are moving into the German occupied France. Pvt. Kelly (Clint Eastwood...yeah this is a Clint Eastwood flick) is a part of a platoon who captures a german Colonel. Kelly comes to know of German gold worth 16 million dollars locked in a bank some 20 miles behind enemy lines. Just at that time, his platoon gets orders to fall back due to incessant German bombing.

Kelly confides his secret with a few of his platoon members and they decide to go ahead with the greatest robbery of all time. Surprisingly Easwood's character is overshadowed by David Sutherland's "Oddball" who plays a hippyish officer with great one-liners.

Check out the movie for the rest. The movie has a great Soundtrack and the theme song "Burning Bridges" is now in my all time favorites.