Kelly's Heroes

"Oh, him? Name's Kelly. Used to be a lieutenant. Pretty good one, too. Till they gave orders to attack the wrong hill. Wiped out half a company of GI's. Somebody had to take the blame and he got picked."

"We see our role as essentially defensive in nature. While our armies are advancing so fast and everyone's knocking themselves out to be heroes, we are holding ourselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris... or maybe even New York. Then we can move in and stop them. But for 1.6 million dollars, we could become heroes for three days."

"[Listening to Kelly on the radio] Attack, attack, attack! Listen to this guy! That's the kinda fighting spirit I was talkin' about! If he's a major he's a colonel now!"

"I'm gonna decorate every man in this penetration unit, whoever they are. They saved the reputation of this entire army. [To his officers] You're the ones supposed to be fightin' this battle, and you don't even know where the hell it is! Well, I'll tell you where it is. It's thirty miles beyond where you thought it was. Booker! Come on, now, let's get this army of mine back in the war!"

"[Upon seeing Kelly, assuming Kelly is there to yell at him for shelling Kelly's unit by accident the previous night] Wait, Kelly, wait. Will you listen to me a second? Will ya listen to me! It's not me, I tell ya, it's not me! I - I can't tell one shell from another, they all look alike! They all look alike. If was me, if I could tell, would I be here? WOULD I BE HERE?! I wouldn't be here, Kelly!"

"Never have so few taken so many for so much."

"They set out to rob a bank... and damn near won a war instead!"

"Clint Eastwood - Private Kelly"

"Telly Savalas - Master Sergeant "Big Joe""

"Don Rickles - Staff Sergeant "Crapgame""

"Carroll O'Connor - Major General Colt"

"Donald Sutherland - Sergeant "Oddball""

"Gavin MacLeod - PFC "Moriarty""

"Shepherd Sanders - "the Turk""

"Stuart Margolin - Private "Little Joe""

"Jeff Morris - PFC "Cowboy""

"Hal Buckley - Captain Maitland"

"Richard Davalos - Private Gutowski"

"Perry Lopez - Private "Pachuco" Petuko"

"Tom Troupe - Corporal Job"

"Harry Dean Stanton - Private Willard"

"Len Lesser - Tech Sergeant Bellamy"

"David Hurst - Oberst Dankhopf"

"George Savalas - First Sergeant Mulligan"

"Karl-Otto Alberty - Tiger tank commander"

"Ross Elliott - Colonel Booker"