Gold for the brave men

Of gold for the brave men ( Kelly' S Heroes ) is an American film carried out by Brian G. Hutton, left the June 23rd 1970.

Synopsis

During the Second world war in France, a group of American soldiers benefits from 3 days of pause in open country to assemble a secret operation aiming at concealing with the Germans sixteen million dollars in gold ingots stored in a bank behind the enemy lines with Clermont-in-Argonne in the Meuse. Finally, they will have nicely to divide the nest egg with the German survivors who had the guard of it.

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Around film

  • a recording of Clint Eastwood singing Burning Bridges , the topic of film, was made, but this last never left.
  • the realizer John Landis was assistant of production on film. It appears besides with the screen disguised as a nun. It is during turning that he wrote the first grinding of the scenario of his future film, the Werewolf of London.
  • the film was mainly turned in Yugoslavia because one still found there many tanks Sherman in the years 1970. As for the “ Tigers ” of German, it is actually about Russian tanks T-34 modified.
  • At the time of the scene where the village is released, a young boy agitates a flag with swastika whereas the Germans have just been put in escape and that everyone celebrates the release. It is true that at the beginning, one finds Clint Eastwood in American uniform, advancing quietly with its jeep in a village with the right in the middle of a German column who does not realize anything.

See also

  • Kings of the desert (1999), film which takes again the same topic transposed to the Guerre of the Gulf.
  • Morfalous gives the French vision of the same topic (more humor and less means).

External bonds

  • Of gold for the brave men on Internet Movie Database
  • the ideal cineclub of J. Bergami

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