I have literally watched this movie a hundred times or more since the first time I saw it as a child back in the mid1970s. And it never ceases to make me laugh even though I know exactly what the next line will be. As a former USMC officer, I well remember one time when my battery was snowed in at Marine Corps Base Camp Fuji and we decided to play movies in the recreation room of the barracks. Every Marine in the room had seen the movie before and yet we all just sat that and watched it, laughing the whole time. Great memories.
Join u on watching since I was a kid w/o commercials?Been through 2 vhs,Dvd & soon BLU-RAY. Makes me a Oddball? Thanks for serving. Took vhs player & tv to the field.About 10 Eastwood movies. Urrah.
Mulligan was played by actor George Savalas, younger brother of Telly Savalas. At beginning of the movie, Big Joe yells into the telephone at Mulligan and curses him. In other words, Telly Savalas was cursing his own real life brother.
Zero, gold in u.s. was priced at $35/ oz troy. if a typical bar was 27.4 lb (troy?) that would = $35 x 27.4 lb troy x 12 troy oz/lb = $11,508 per bar. "entry" level pay during ww2 was $50/mo x 12 mo/yrs x 4 years = $2400.
@@danmorris8594 pay didn’t jump as much by rank during ww2. And a lot of NCOs got promoted in the field but didn’t get the higher pay of the rank. As you would call an acting sergeant in peace time.
@@danmorris8594 my grandfather wore the rank of first sergeant as an ADA battery 1sgt but got the pay of an E7 until he got boosted in the pay grade. Even with the rank there is also the position, a 3 stripe buck sergeant can be a first sergeant if he is the Senior non commissioned officer in his company/battery/troop.
@@richardauchinleck1234 That's the pay for a BUCK PRIVATE. And it wasn't $50/month until 1944, I think it'd be as low as $21/month for the first year as of 1941. Mulligan is a FIRST SERGEANT (E-7), and while IDK what the pay scales were, or if he's drawing "combat pay" or other bonuses, but likely he's making considerably more than a private. I didn't see the cuff stripes that'd indicate years of service, but if Mulligan's an E-7, likely he's not a draftee, and judging by his age, I'd say at least 15 or so years in the Army. BTW, the part of Mulligan was played by George Savalas, Telly's younger brother, who also starred with him in "Kojak" as Detective Stavros.
Reminds me of the woman who told a pharmacist, "I want some cyanide. I want to kill my husband." The druggist replies, "What?! That's illegal! Immoral! There's no way I can do it!" Whereupon she shows him a photo of her husband and the pharmacist's wife lying naked in bed together. "Well, now", says the pharmacist at length, "You didn't SAY you had a PRESCRIPTION...."
Part of the "shtick" that Mulligan's an incompetent and a goldbrick, but somehow is an E-7 overseeing an artillery company. But if the performance of that unit is THAT bad, you'd see the CO getting the dressing down from HQ, and likely "sacked" for it! Interesting to speculate how Mulligan ever got promoted, or how he keeps his job.
scene after scene, this movie is about incentives and personal motivations - how to get people to do things and what motivates people ( a box full of medals or a bank full of gold). It's about personal ( profit-seeking ) initiatives driving change and the large, unintended ( positive ) consequences that spin-off from those self-directed actions. Kelly and his "private enterprise Operation" motivated by their self-gain took the initiative which also resulted in breaking the stalemate the bureaucracy of the Army found itself. What ultimately motivates individuals is self gain and not just ideology, duty or other rational as best shown when Mulligan was sleeping with his gold bar when ordering the barrage and the fanatic ss tanker turned the turret and blew the doors off the bank to gain a portion of the profits. IFF you want a fundamental understanding of the lessons from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nation - this movie is an example!!!!!
A great scene but did anyone notice that Kelly brings Mulligan the bottle of Dewar's Scotch that he actually receives from Crapgame in the next scene?! LOL
@@danmorris8594 Good editing, actually. Its funnier to have Mulligan's scene first since its a much snappier arrangement. Imagine if this part happened after the Oddball intro, it wouldn't have nearly the same effect since we'd be too busy thinking about the funny tank commander dude.
@@AzelfandQuilava Good continuity check, but who's to say that wasn't a bottle of Dewar's that Kelly had "appropriated" from Crapgame earlier? These guys do KNOW each other quite well!
@@akafozzy Kelly had yet to line up the armor support, so that was a detail that had to be wrapped up. Showing Mulligan WHERE at least gave him an idea of what artillery pieces and what shells to use, though all we see are mortars, which typically are quite SHORT RANGE, another mild error given the apparent distance of the German held-town where Kelly picked up Col. "Dankopf' (Dumbkopf) a few nights prior where he learned of the gold in the first place. Kelly was also taking an enormous chance with just a few half-tracks that he'd get through without either hitting a mine, being attacked by some German kid with a "Panzerfaust", or even hit by Mulligan's barrage, which happened in the beginning of the movie, much to "Big Joe's annoyance!
Part of the satire. For that matter, Maitland being a Captain, although he's one "detached" company commander, makes "sense", thanks to nepotism (he's General Colt's nephew), but the General himself, who's supposed to be an expy of Patton, I can't see how he wasn't relieved of his command, sent back to the States, and reverted to his "regular Army" rank instead of the temporary one in the "Army of the US", likely a "Chicken Colonel". Most of the other officers shown seem to be reasonably competent, just CLUELESS or at least indifferent as to the corruption and scams of their men.
Why not? Apparently so was the Waffen-SS Oberscharfuhrer (Karl-Otto Alberty) Tiger commander, as he and his crew abandoned their mission to guard the bank (as he was "told") and instead blew the front doors in with an HE round from that 88mm tank gun. Perhaps when told their tank platoon, which should have been committed to a counter-attack against the break-through, especially when Bellamy's men are building a bridge across that river, were instead being held back to guard a pile of gold, he probably got disgusted with the whole thing and figured, WHY NOT? After all, business is business...
I've watched this movie so many times I have narratim verbatim. I still watch it. One of the best lines I ever heard. Kelly: Mulligan, I just want to make a proposition to you. Mulligan: Proposition? Is it dirty or just illegal?
Best part is when Mulligan sets his alarm for the barrage to begin. It goes off waking him up and in his catatonic state, he grabs the gold bar as if it were the phone handset and yells "FIRE"!
Part of the start-to-finish satire that is "Kelly's Heroes" is one would wonder how an obvious goldbrick and "lardass" like Mulligan would make E-7? He even rolls back to sleep after bellowing "FIRE" into the telephone. BTW, he'd at least give a code word or phrase so the artillery crews (show as mortars, but a 1SGT would likely be supervising a divisional artillery company, so we'd see 75s or 105s, and typically the CO gives the firing order! Still very damned funny!
I remember clearly watching this movie with my godfather, who was a WW2 vet who served in Europe. I asked him "Where is all the fighting in this movie? Why are soldiers just standing around doing nothing?" He smiled and said, "Son, that is the reality of war. 95% standing around and 5% spent actually fighting. This movie is about as accurate as it gets."
Hard to pick a favorite scene in this movie. Mine is Oddball sitting at a table drinking wine, eating cheese, catching some rays, and Telly asks him why he isn't helping repair the tank. His reply is, "I don't know what makes 'em run, I just drive 'em". Savalas glares at him then walks away and Oddball says, "Definitely an anti-social type, woof-woof".
More than likely a painted iron ingot. Way too valuable, even at 1970 prices, to have around. Or, considering the ease in which they were handled in the movie, plaster.
@@vinceroady7918 Or, with about 60% of the entire take of the 14,000 gold bars, some 8,400 of them in all, even if these particular castings weigh only about seven or eight pounds apiece, that's still about 60,000 lbs, or THIRTY tons of gold, on a SINGLE Opel truck, standard vehicle for the Heer, equivalent to a "Deuce and a Half". It'd have taken a truck apiece for every one of Kelly's men still remaining on the heist, at least doubly-loaded, to make off with that much gold.
RW:i know that some people in the army makes mistakes,but i do feel sorry for Mulligan in this scene even when hes just following orders to do those barrages in that specific area even from that scene in the beginning of the film once they reached the farm house during the night scene.
I didn't realize until a short tim eago that Mulligan was played by George Savalas, Telly's Brother. He prtrayed Stavros on Telly's series Kojak. And I've seen this movie several times over the years.
It could have been the artillery observation unit's fault, and given the bureaucratic bungling, Mulligan doesn't know any better. There should be an observer working with Big Joe and/or Capt. Maitland to observe the fall of shot and relay correction back to Mulligan in the first place, that's quite typical for artillery!
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I could watch this movie over and over again..probably seen it 10 times already...great movie with a great cast...
me like 50+ times and almost remember every line right now LOL
Only 10 times...... I've watched it over and over since I first saw it as a kid in 83. I've lost count lol. Easily my favourite all time movie 🤗
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I just don't understand the hippy soundtrack.
Same here brother
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I have literally watched this movie a hundred times or more since the first time I saw it as a child back in the mid1970s. And it never ceases to make me laugh even though I know exactly what the next line will be. As a former USMC officer, I well remember one time when my battery was snowed in at Marine Corps Base Camp Fuji and we decided to play movies in the recreation room of the barracks. Every Marine in the room had seen the movie before and yet we all just sat that and watched it, laughing the whole time. Great memories.
Even it fictional heist comedy at the same time it's very realistic. Soldiers are tired and dirty. Equipment is beat up after months of fighting.
Join u on watching since I was a kid w/o commercials?Been through 2 vhs,Dvd & soon BLU-RAY. Makes me a Oddball? Thanks for serving. Took vhs player & tv to the field.About 10 Eastwood movies. Urrah.
@@MichalKaczorowski Agree. And unlike comparable movies, they look exhausted. When he fired that BAR, you can feel the calluses and bruises.
Semper Fi Brother love the every time I watch it.
Mulligan was played by actor George Savalas, younger brother of Telly Savalas. At beginning of the movie, Big Joe yells into the telephone at Mulligan and curses him. In other words, Telly Savalas was cursing his own real life brother.
That gold bar is probably worth more than Mulligan would make in the army during the entire war
Zero, gold in u.s. was priced at $35/ oz troy. if a typical bar was 27.4 lb (troy?) that would = $35 x 27.4 lb troy x 12 troy oz/lb = $11,508 per bar.
"entry" level pay during ww2 was $50/mo x 12 mo/yrs x 4 years = $2400.
@@richardauchinleck1234 as a first Sgt he would probably make almost 3 times that but still less than the gold bar
@@danmorris8594 pay didn’t jump as much by rank during ww2. And a lot of NCOs got promoted in the field but didn’t get the higher pay of the rank. As you would call an acting sergeant in peace time.
@@danmorris8594 my grandfather wore the rank of first sergeant as an ADA battery 1sgt but got the pay of an E7 until he got boosted in the pay grade. Even with the rank there is also the position, a 3 stripe buck sergeant can be a first sergeant if he is the Senior non commissioned officer in his company/battery/troop.
@@richardauchinleck1234 That's the pay for a BUCK PRIVATE. And it wasn't $50/month until 1944, I think it'd be as low as $21/month for the first year as of 1941. Mulligan is a FIRST SERGEANT (E-7), and while IDK what the pay scales were, or if he's drawing "combat pay" or other bonuses, but likely he's making considerably more than a private. I didn't see the cuff stripes that'd indicate years of service, but if Mulligan's an E-7, likely he's not a draftee, and judging by his age, I'd say at least 15 or so years in the Army.
BTW, the part of Mulligan was played by George Savalas, Telly's younger brother, who also starred with him in "Kojak" as Detective Stavros.
The supporting cast acted perfectly.
Brilliant film, still holds up even today
This is THE quintessential neurotic meltdown of all times.
Absolutely hilarious...
I forgot how funny that scene is. But a great classic of cinema.
Love the line..."is it dirty or just illegal ?"
Reminds me of the woman who told a pharmacist, "I want some cyanide. I want to kill my husband." The druggist replies, "What?! That's illegal! Immoral! There's no way I can do it!" Whereupon she shows him a photo of her husband and the pharmacist's wife lying naked in bed together. "Well, now", says the pharmacist at length, "You didn't SAY you had a PRESCRIPTION...."
Thats really good
"Mulligan?! Mulligan?! He hasn't been on time or on target since we got off Omaha beach!"
Well there's always a first time
He wasn't properly motivated like he was here.
@@brianwalsh1401 A few 24 Carat gold bars are a mighty persuader.
@@davidmurray5399 Definitely.
Part of the "shtick" that Mulligan's an incompetent and a goldbrick, but somehow is an E-7 overseeing an artillery company. But if the performance of that unit is THAT bad, you'd see the CO getting the dressing down from HQ, and likely "sacked" for it! Interesting to speculate how Mulligan ever got promoted, or how he keeps his job.
One of my ALL TIME favorite Movies! Classic!
scene after scene, this movie is about incentives and personal motivations - how to get people to do things and what motivates people ( a box full of medals or a bank full of gold). It's about personal ( profit-seeking ) initiatives driving change and the large, unintended ( positive ) consequences that spin-off from those self-directed actions. Kelly and his "private enterprise Operation" motivated by their self-gain took the initiative which also resulted in breaking the stalemate the bureaucracy of the Army found itself. What ultimately motivates individuals is self gain and not just ideology, duty or other rational as best shown when Mulligan was sleeping with his gold bar when ordering the barrage and the fanatic ss tanker turned the turret and blew the doors off the bank to gain a portion of the profits. IFF you want a fundamental understanding of the lessons from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nation - this movie is an example!!!!!
A great scene but did anyone notice that Kelly brings Mulligan the bottle of Dewar's Scotch that he actually receives from Crapgame in the next scene?! LOL
Never did, good catch. Bad editing
@@danmorris8594 Good editing, actually. Its funnier to have Mulligan's scene first since its a much snappier arrangement.
Imagine if this part happened after the Oddball intro, it wouldn't have nearly the same effect since we'd be too busy thinking about the funny tank commander dude.
@@AzelfandQuilava Good continuity check, but who's to say that wasn't a bottle of Dewar's that Kelly had "appropriated" from Crapgame earlier? These guys do KNOW each other quite well!
@@selfdo I suppose that would be a better "in-universe" explanation, but its still a "goof" technically.
2:17 "And a good man always knows his limitations".
STAVROS! GET IN HERE!
A proposition.
Why not?
0:06 Eastwood is so big he barely fits in a Jeep lol
i d say this my "best scene"... but there are other "best scenes" .... hence: Best movie
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A supreme classic....
“Whether Mulligan can tell time is another question.”
I am only 42 and I love this movie
Now I know how Big Joe came out with MULLIGAN, I SAID TEN MINUUUUUUTES!!😂
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"Why what"!? Exactly. In deals like this you don't ask questions
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That is such a funny scene...
I love war movies and own this one with opposite side being dirty dozen
That was a great movie too. Savalas was incredible in his role as the psychopath Maggot.
Is that Telly Savalas' brother?
Yes ☺
Plot Hole: Kelly showed Mulligan on the map where he wanted the mortar fire to be directed. But he never told him what time to commence the barrage.
It could be written on it
@@akafozzy Kelly had yet to line up the armor support, so that was a detail that had to be wrapped up. Showing Mulligan WHERE at least gave him an idea of what artillery pieces and what shells to use, though all we see are mortars, which typically are quite SHORT RANGE, another mild error given the apparent distance of the German held-town where Kelly picked up Col. "Dankopf' (Dumbkopf) a few nights prior where he learned of the gold in the first place. Kelly was also taking an enormous chance with just a few half-tracks that he'd get through without either hitting a mine, being attacked by some German kid with a "Panzerfaust", or even hit by Mulligan's barrage, which happened in the beginning of the movie, much to "Big Joe's annoyance!
How did mulligan get promoted to First Sergeant? Lol
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Part of the satire. For that matter, Maitland being a Captain, although he's one "detached" company commander, makes "sense", thanks to nepotism (he's General Colt's nephew), but the General himself, who's supposed to be an expy of Patton, I can't see how he wasn't relieved of his command, sent back to the States, and reverted to his "regular Army" rank instead of the temporary one in the "Army of the US", likely a "Chicken Colonel". Most of the other officers shown seem to be reasonably competent, just CLUELESS or at least indifferent as to the corruption and scams of their men.
telly savalas's brother..
Eastwood was already 40 here
And that's what the war was all about - making a few guys rich
Is it dirty? Or just illegal??
Poor guy is a nervous wreck...
Mortar guys are such sensitive people .
. . . is it dirty . . .
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Why what? Why.. Why not.... Mulligan. Must be a Republican as well...
Why not? Apparently so was the Waffen-SS Oberscharfuhrer (Karl-Otto Alberty) Tiger commander, as he and his crew abandoned their mission to guard the bank (as he was "told") and instead blew the front doors in with an HE round from that 88mm tank gun. Perhaps when told their tank platoon, which should have been committed to a counter-attack against the break-through, especially when Bellamy's men are building a bridge across that river, were instead being held back to guard a pile of gold, he probably got disgusted with the whole thing and figured, WHY NOT? After all, business is business...
That's Telly Savalas's brother, George, he also was a regular on the TV series Kojak.
Wow I never knew that , thanks!
I never knew that??)))
Yep.
Yes he played Stavros in that, he was always eating a hotdog or hamburger.
@@colinp2238 I remember Stavros having a snack between breakfast and lunch.
I've watched this movie so many times I have narratim verbatim. I still watch it. One of the best lines I ever heard.
Kelly: Mulligan, I just want to make a proposition to you.
Mulligan: Proposition? Is it dirty or just illegal?
Best part is when Mulligan sets his alarm for the barrage to begin. It goes off waking him up and in his catatonic state, he grabs the gold bar as if it were the phone handset and yells "FIRE"!
Part of the start-to-finish satire that is "Kelly's Heroes" is one would wonder how an obvious goldbrick and "lardass" like Mulligan would make E-7? He even rolls back to sleep after bellowing "FIRE" into the telephone. BTW, he'd at least give a code word or phrase so the artillery crews (show as mortars, but a 1SGT would likely be supervising a divisional artillery company, so we'd see 75s or 105s, and typically the CO gives the firing order! Still very damned funny!
I love it how he's almost immediately hypnotized by the sight of the gold LOL
Mulligan: “but....why?”
Kelly: “why what?”
Mulligan: “why not?”
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He's channelling Lou Costello here.
I was thinking exactly the same thing Alex F! Maybe from "Hold that Ghost".
And Newman too
Great actors those Savalas brothers
I remember clearly watching this movie with my godfather, who was a WW2 vet who served in Europe. I asked him "Where is all the fighting in this movie? Why are soldiers just standing around doing nothing?" He smiled and said, "Son, that is the reality of war. 95% standing around and 5% spent actually fighting. This movie is about as accurate as it gets."
Many great scenes in Kelly's heroes but this one is one of my favs!
"Why what!!" Exactly. Some things you just don't question!
“You’re a good man mulligan.”
The line cracked me up! 😂
Reminds me of "you're doing a heckuva job Brownie".
My favourite scene. Thank you for this. 😂
Hard to pick a favorite scene in this movie. Mine is Oddball sitting at a table drinking wine, eating cheese, catching some rays, and Telly asks him why he isn't helping repair the tank. His reply is, "I don't know what makes 'em run, I just drive 'em". Savalas glares at him then walks away and Oddball says, "Definitely an anti-social type, woof-woof".
In 1970 we needed to laugh,,,
As I came out of the movie theater right by the Boston Commons I was laughing.
For filming in Yugoslavia, they sure had the props and equipment down to almost perfection.
That bar of gold might have been real too.
More than likely a painted iron ingot. Way too valuable, even at 1970 prices, to have around. Or, considering the ease in which they were handled in the movie, plaster.
yeah but a bar of gold weighs close to 30 pounds. They're tossing it around like nothing.
@@vinceroady7918 Or, with about 60% of the entire take of the 14,000 gold bars, some 8,400 of them in all, even if these particular castings weigh only about seven or eight pounds apiece, that's still about 60,000 lbs, or THIRTY tons of gold, on a SINGLE Opel truck, standard vehicle for the Heer, equivalent to a "Deuce and a Half". It'd have taken a truck apiece for every one of Kelly's men still remaining on the heist, at least doubly-loaded, to make off with that much gold.
It's probably nordic-gold, a copper-alloy used in some coins. It's made of 89% copper, 5% aluminium, 5% zinc, and 1% tin.
This scene is so funny. Loved the Mulligan character ..........................
ooh shiny thing!
RW:i know that some people in the army makes mistakes,but i do feel sorry for Mulligan in this scene even when hes just following orders to do those barrages in that specific area even from that scene in the beginning of the film once they reached the farm house during the night scene.
Seen it 20+ times. I'd go AWOL from that misbegotten unit
nah, i would take a chance on the gold... its the perfect crime behind enemy lines.
All I see is Costello screaming understanding😂😂😂😢😢🤡🤡
Military Industrial Complex in 2mins
Why why why not😂😂😂😂
I didn't realize until a short tim eago that Mulligan was played by George Savalas, Telly's Brother. He prtrayed Stavros on Telly's series Kojak. And I've seen this movie several times over the years.
. . . why what?
NEVER ON TIME OR ON TARGET
Could be on the maps
Well there’s always a first time.
It could have been the artillery observation unit's fault, and given the bureaucratic bungling, Mulligan doesn't know any better. There should be an observer working with Big Joe and/or Capt. Maitland to observe the fall of shot and relay correction back to Mulligan in the first place, that's quite typical for artillery!
Thank you for bringing back KH's, a madcap take on WW2, ala MASH for the Korean war. So far, no VN war comedy. JL
Mulligan is without a doubt from Jersey!lol!
Saw it at the drive in when it came out, with my family 👪
Seen it may time's 😃
"Would I be here?" That is the question, isn't it?
george savalas great man
Bad haircuts ruin the movie.
A brilliant actor.
Great Great movie
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