Kelly's Heroes

Timothy Hoskins thoskins at peop.tds.net
Thu Nov 28 06:07:47 CST 1996


dbragg at juno.com wrote:
> 
> Right on!  KH is so cool, man.  Donald (Oddball) Sutherland with all of
> those 'good vibes, man.  That awesome ending which spoofed clint
> Eastwood's _For A Fistful Of Dollars_!  It is an awesome pic.
> 
> 
> That reminds me.  There was another surrealistic war movie that had
> strange Pynchonian overtones.   Burt lancaster played a one-eyed Patton
> type who rallied some Americans during the Battle of The Bulge and they
> fought the Germans in an old castle.   Peter Falk was in it, as a GI who
> quit the war top become a baker in this little Belgian town.  There was
> also a guy on a white horse and a volkswagen.  It was really strange.
> And in the end . . .everything got blown all to hell.
> 
>                                         Doug


*Castle Keep* 1969, directed by Sidney Pollack. Also had Bruce Dern in
it a la your *Oddball* from K's Hs.  Pollack also did *They Shoot Horses
Don't They?* the same year, pretty weird movie,too.

th



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