![]() ![]() Ian Sayer is a British journalist, entrepreneur, and historian who has led an extremely colorful life. However, the moviemakers weren’t the only intrigued parties. ![]() Martin used the entry as a starting point and wrote the screenplay. Guinness’s understanding was that more details than that weren’t really available, possibly due to pieces of the story being classified. military personnel and German civilians in 1945.” MGM was so excited by the prospect that their head of production, Elliot Morgan, wrote Guinness for more information. “The Greatest Robbery on Record,” first listed in 1956 (and holding the spot until 2000), “was of the German National Gold Reserves in Bavaria by a combination of U.S. Writer Troy Kennedy Martin based the screenplay on an incident that he learned about from, of all places, The Guinness Book of World Records. (Uploaded to YouTube by The Mike Curb Congregation – Topic / Universal Music Group) The movies theme, Burning Bridges by The Mike Curb Congregation, went Top 40. And yes, something very similar to that actually happened. The characters split nearly $900,000 apiece and go their separate ways before they’re caught. After fighting their way through a German tank blockade, the soldiers end up making a deal with the last German tank crew to share the gold. He assembles a misfit crew (including Sutherland’s tank squad), and the group makes a sustained effort to find and capture the gold. ![]() The plot of the film follows Private Kelly (Eastwood) who discovers the existence of a cache of German gold after capturing a Wehrmacht intelligence officer. Don Rickles was, well, Don Rickles, and Carroll O’Connor was a tireless and familiar character actor one year out from his iconic turn as Archie Bunker. Kelly’s Heroes co-stars Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland had both been standouts in The Dirty Dozen Sutherland had also made a war picture mark in M*A*S*H earlier in the year. Eastwood’s star had been rising steadily for years, coming off of the Sergio Leone “Man with No Name” trilogy, WWII drama Where Eagles Dare, and other Westerns, while the following year would bring him The Beguiled, Play Misty for Me, and his most famous character in Dirty Harry. Kelly’s Heroes drew attention from the outset for the obvious reasons, like its cast. ![]()
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