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* ActorAllusion: [[Creator/ClintEastwood Kelly]] and his squad mates [[spoiler:face off against a Tiger tank]] with SpaghettiWestern music in the background.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was going to have a female role, but prior to filming, it was cut from the script. Ingrid Pitt, who was cast in the role, (and had been in ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'' with Creator/ClintEastwood the prior year) revealed that she was "virtually climbing on board the plane bound for Yugoslavia when word came through that my part had been cut."
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was going to have a female role, but prior to filming, it was cut from the script. Ingrid Pitt, Creator/IngridPitt, who was cast in the role, (and had been in ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'' with Creator/ClintEastwood the prior year) revealed that she was "virtually climbing on board the plane bound for Yugoslavia when word came through that my part had been cut."
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Oddball's "pipe on the gun" claim covers the fact that the Shermans used for the movie had been up-gunned postwar.
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* GeniusBonus: The Operation Tannenbaum mentioned by the captured German officer was a real operation, albeit one that never went into action: it was a German plan to invade Switzerland.
* RetroactiveRecognition: One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[Series/TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
** Hey, hey! [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
** And of course, Kelly ends up as a [[Film/DirtyHarry vigilante detective in San Francisco.]]
* RetroactiveRecognition: One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[Series/TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
** Hey, hey! [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
** And of course, Kelly ends up as a [[Film/DirtyHarry vigilante detective in San Francisco.]]
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* One of the assistants working on the film was a young budding filmmaker named Creator/JohnLandis. While in Yugoslavia shooting the movie, Landis witnessed an event involving gypsies burying a corpse in the middle of a road which inspired him to write the script for ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. He also got to be friendly with one of the ''Kelly's Heroes'' stars, Donald Sutherland and years later got him to an appear in two of his early films, ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' and ''Film/AnimalHouse''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
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* RetroactiveRecognition: One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[TheLoveBoat [[Series/TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
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* This film is an obvious favorite of the makers of ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', including one character calling herself "Sargent Oddball" as a hasty alias, and one team of girls watching the movie for inspiration the night before the national finals. Said team invokes "Operation ''KellysHeroes''" in said final battle.
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* This film is an obvious favorite of the makers of ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', including one character calling herself "Sargent Oddball" as a hasty alias, and one team of girls watching the movie for inspiration the night before the national finals. Said team invokes "Operation ''KellysHeroes''" ''Kelly's Heroes''" in said final battle.
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* ExecutiveMeddling - According to Creator/ClintEastwood, MGM, against both his wishes and those of director Brian G. Hutton, re-edited the film to remove some character-driven scenes and a more obvious anti-war message. This was also responsible for the addition of "Burning Bridges" as the title song, rather than the original theme composed by Lalo Shifrin.
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* ExecutiveMeddling - According to Creator/ClintEastwood, MGM, against both his wishes and those of director Brian G. Hutton, re-edited the film to remove some character-driven scenes and a more obvious anti-war message. This was also responsible CaliforniaDoubling: Yugoslavia doubled for the addition of "Burning Bridges" as the title song, rather than the original theme composed by Lalo Shifrin.Nazi-occupied France.
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* ExecutiveMeddling - According to Creator/ClintEastwood, MGM, against both his wishes and those of director Brian G. Hutton, re-edited the film to remove some character-driven scenes and a more obvious anti-war message. This was also responsible for the addition of "Burning Bridges" as the title song, rather than the original theme composed by Lalo Shifrin.
* GeniusBonus: The Operation Tannenbaum mentioned by the captured German officer was a real operation, albeit one that never went into action: it was a German plan to invade Switzerland.
* GeniusBonus: The Operation Tannenbaum mentioned by the captured German officer was a real operation, albeit one that never went into action: it was a German plan to invade Switzerland.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Yugoslavia doubled for Nazi-occupied France.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a general.
** [[Film/TheDirtyDozen Maggott and Pinkley]] have a new assignment.
** [[Film/TheDirtyDozen Maggott and Pinkley]] have a new assignment.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was going to have a female role, but prior to filming, it was cut from the script. Ingrid Pitt, who was cast in the role, (and had been in ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'' with Creator/ClintEastwood the prior year) revealed that she was "virtually climbing on board the plane bound for Yugoslavia when word came through that my part had been cut."
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was going to have a female role, but prior to filming, it was cut from the script. Ingrid Pitt, who was cast in the role, (and had been in ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'' with Creator/ClintEastwood the prior year) revealed that she was "virtually climbing on board the plane bound for Yugoslavia when word came through that my part had been cut."
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* RetroactiveRecognition: One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
** Hey, hey! [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
** And of course, Kelly ends up as a [[Film/DirtyHarry vigilante detective in San Francisco.]]
** Hey, hey! [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
** And of course, Kelly ends up as a [[Film/DirtyHarry vigilante detective in San Francisco.]]
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* ExecutiveMeddling - According to Clint Eastwood, MGM, against both his wishes and those of director Brian G. Hutton, re-edited the film to remove some character-driven scenes and a more obvious anti-war message. This was also responsible for the addition of "Burning Bridges" as the title song, rather than the original theme composed by Lalo Shifrin.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Yugoslavia doubled for Nazi-occupied France.
* ExecutiveMeddling - According toClint Eastwood, Creator/ClintEastwood, MGM, against both his wishes and those of director Brian G. Hutton, re-edited the film to remove some character-driven scenes and a more obvious anti-war message. This was also responsible for the addition of "Burning Bridges" as the title song, rather than the original theme composed by Lalo Shifrin.Shifrin.
* DeletedScenes: The studio cut 20 minutes from the film. Deleted material includes:
** Oddball and his crew pack up to go across the lines to meet up with Kelly and others while local village girls are running around half naked.
** The platoon encounters a group of German soldiers and naked girls swimming in a pool.
** While they wait for Oddball in the barn at night, Kelly and Big Joe talk about their disillusionment with the war and why Kelly was made as a scapegoat for the attack that resulted in his demotion. Another scene was deleted from this part where the platoon decides they do not want to continue with the mission, and Gutowski threatens Kelly at gunpoint, but Big Joe and Crapgame side with Kelly.
** General Colt is in bed with some women when he gets a call that Kelly and others have broken through the enemy lines.
** During the attack on the town, production designer Jon Barry had a cameo as a British airman hiding from the Germans.
** One promotional still shows Kelly finding a wounded German soldier among the ruined houses during the final town attack.
** Kelly, Oddball and Big Joe discuss tactics while standing on an abandoned Tiger tank before the scene where they negotiate with the German tank commander.
** When Kelly and platoon drive off at the end, a bunch of soldiers yell at them that they are headed in the wrong direction.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a general.
** [[Film/TheDirtyDozen Maggott and Pinkley]] have a new assignment.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was going to have a female role, but prior to filming, it was cut from the script. Ingrid Pitt, who was cast in the role, (and had been in ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'' with Creator/ClintEastwood the prior year) revealed that she was "virtually climbing on board the plane bound for Yugoslavia when word came through that my part had been cut."
* WorkingTitle: ''The Warriors'' and ''Kelly's Warriors''.
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* DeletedScenes: The studio cut 20 minutes from the film. Deleted material includes:
** Oddball and his crew pack up to go across the lines to meet up with Kelly and others while local village girls are running around half naked.
** The platoon encounters a group of German soldiers and naked girls swimming in a pool.
** While they wait for Oddball in the barn at night, Kelly and Big Joe talk about their disillusionment with the war and why Kelly was made as a scapegoat for the attack that resulted in his demotion. Another scene was deleted from this part where the platoon decides they do not want to continue with the mission, and Gutowski threatens Kelly at gunpoint, but Big Joe and Crapgame side with Kelly.
** General Colt is in bed with some women when he gets a call that Kelly and others have broken through the enemy lines.
** During the attack on the town, production designer Jon Barry had a cameo as a British airman hiding from the Germans.
** One promotional still shows Kelly finding a wounded German soldier among the ruined houses during the final town attack.
** Kelly, Oddball and Big Joe discuss tactics while standing on an abandoned Tiger tank before the scene where they negotiate with the German tank commander.
** When Kelly and platoon drive off at the end, a bunch of soldiers yell at them that they are headed in the wrong direction.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a general.
** [[Film/TheDirtyDozen Maggott and Pinkley]] have a new assignment.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was going to have a female role, but prior to filming, it was cut from the script. Ingrid Pitt, who was cast in the role, (and had been in ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'' with Creator/ClintEastwood the prior year) revealed that she was "virtually climbing on board the plane bound for Yugoslavia when word came through that my part had been cut."
* WorkingTitle: ''The Warriors'' and ''Kelly's Warriors''.
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* One of the assistants working on the film was a young budding filmmaker named Creator/JohnLandis. While in Yugoslavia shooting the movie, Landis witnessed an event involving gypsies burying a corpse in the middle of a road which inspired him to write the script for ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. He also got to be friendly with one of the ''Kelly's Heroes'' stars, Donald Sutherland and years later got him to an appear in two of his early films, ''TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' and ''AnimalHouse''.
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* One of the assistants working on the film was a young budding filmmaker named Creator/JohnLandis. While in Yugoslavia shooting the movie, Landis witnessed an event involving gypsies burying a corpse in the middle of a road which inspired him to write the script for ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. He also got to be friendly with one of the ''Kelly's Heroes'' stars, Donald Sutherland and years later got him to an appear in two of his early films, ''TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' and ''AnimalHouse''.''Film/AnimalHouse''.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The "sturmbanführer" who speaks with the Tiger tank commander actually has the insignia of an untersturmführer (lieutenant).
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* GeniusBonus: Moriarty describing the "captured" Tiger as a "piece of junk" with "fuel leaking everywhere". Deadly as they could be Tiger tanks were also underpowered, mechanically unreliable and notoriously leaky since wartime shortages meant their fiendishly complicated fuel systems (5 tanks and over 120 tubes and fittings) were made with household plumbing pipes instead of military grade materials
* RetroactiveRecognition: One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
** Hey, hey! [[{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]]
* RetroactiveRecognition: One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
** Hey, hey! [[{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]]
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* ActorAllusion: [[Creator/ClintEastwood Kelly]] and his squad mates [[spoiler:face off against a Tiger tank]] with SpaghettiWestern music in the background.
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** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]]
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Oddball's "pipe on the gun" claim covers the fact that the Shermans used for the movie had been up-gunned postwar.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The "sturmbanführer" who speaks with the Tiger tank commander actually has the insignia of an untersturmführer (lieutenant).
* AuthorsSavingThrow: Oddball's "pipe on the gun" claim covers the fact that the Shermans used for the movie had been up-gunned postwar.
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* One of the assistants working on the film was a young budding filmmaker named JohnLandis.Creator/JohnLandis. While in Yugoslavia shooting the movie, Landis witnessed an event involving gypsies burying a corpse in the middle of a road which inspired him to write the script for ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. He also got to be friendly with one of the ''Kelly's Heroes'' stars, Donald Sutherland and years later got him to an appear in two of his early films, ''TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' and ''AnimalHouse''.
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* This film is an obvious favorite of the makers of ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', including one character calling herself "Oddball", and one team of girls watching the movie for inspiration the night before the national finals. Said team invokes "Operation ''KellysHeroes''" in said final battle.
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* This film is an obvious favorite of the makers of ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', including one character calling herself "Oddball", "Sargent Oddball" as a hasty alias, and one team of girls watching the movie for inspiration the night before the national finals. Said team invokes "Operation ''KellysHeroes''" in said final battle.
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* This film is an obvious favorite of the makers of ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', including one character calling herself "Oddball", and one team of girls watching the movie for inspiration the night before the national finals. Said team invokes "Operation ''KellysHeroes'' in said final battle.
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* One of the assistants working on the film was a young budding filmmaker named JohnLandis. While in Yugoslavia shooting the movie, Landis witnessed an event involving gypsies burying a corpse in the middle of a road which inspired him to write the script for ''AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''.''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. He also got to be friendly with one of the ''Kelly's Heroes'' stars, Donald Sutherland and years later got him to an appear in two of his early films, ''TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' and ''AnimalHouse''.
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* ExecutiveMeddling - According to Clint Eastwood, MGM, against both his wishes and those of director Brian G. Hutton, re-edited the film to remove some character-driven scenes and a more obvious anti-war message. This was also responsible for the addition of "Burning Bridges" as the title song, rather than the original theme composed by Lalo Shifrin.
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* One of the assistants working on the film was a young budding filmmaker named JohnLandis. While shooting in Yugoslavia shooting the movie, Landis witnessed an event involving gypsies burying a corpse in the middle of a road which inspired him to write the script for ''AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. He also got to be friendly with one of the ''Kelly's Heroes'' stars, Donald Sutherland and years later got him to an appear in two of his early films, ''TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' and ''AnimalHouse''.
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* During the filming in Yugoslavia in July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.
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* One of the assistants working on the film was a young budding filmmaker named JohnLandis. While shooting in Yugoslavia Landis witnessed an event involving gypsies burying a corpse in the middle of a road which inspired him to write the script for ''AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. He also got to be friendly with one of the ''Kelly's Heroes'' stars, Donald Sutherland and years later got him to an appear in two of his early films, ''TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' and ''AnimalHouse''.
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** Hey, hey! [[{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is part of the gold heist.
