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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