(Uploaded to YouTube by The Mike Curb Congregation – Topic / Universal Music Group) The movies theme, Burning Bridges by The Mike Curb Congregation, went Top 40. And yes, something very similar to that actually happened. The characters split nearly $900,000 apiece and go their separate ways before they’re caught. After fighting their way through a German tank blockade, the soldiers end up making a deal with the last German tank crew to share the gold. He assembles a misfit crew (including Sutherland’s tank squad), and the group makes a sustained effort to find and capture the gold. The plot of the film follows Private Kelly (Eastwood) who discovers the existence of a cache of German gold after capturing a Wehrmacht intelligence officer. Don Rickles was, well, Don Rickles, and Carroll O’Connor was a tireless and familiar character actor one year out from his iconic turn as Archie Bunker. Kelly’s Heroes co-stars Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland had both been standouts in The Dirty Dozen Sutherland had also made a war picture mark in M*A*S*H earlier in the year.
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Eastwood’s star had been rising steadily for years, coming off of the Sergio Leone “Man with No Name” trilogy, WWII drama Where Eagles Dare, and other Westerns, while the following year would bring him The Beguiled, Play Misty for Me, and his most famous character in Dirty Harry. Kelly’s Heroes drew attention from the outset for the obvious reasons, like its cast.