Kelly's Heroes

Craig Clark CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA
Wed Nov 27 09:20:32 CST 1996


Richard Romeo writes:
 
> Particular notables:  Donald Sutherland as a bearded, hippie, long-hair 
> who's Shermans fire pink paint, the capt. from the love boat who is his 
> driver, who Donald hates because of his 'Bad vibes", there's also a 
> cowboy, some mexican dude, no guy from Brooklyn, no pretty-boy Iowa farm 
> boy, just a lot of dead germans, and gold for the taking.

Sutherland's wonderfully anachronistic hippy (back in the forties?) 
is indeed a high point of _Kelly's Heroes_.

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"



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