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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 5372
Released: May 22, 2007 |
| Our Price: $7.35 |
| Used Price: $6.41 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Atten-hut! Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin lead these tales of combat that mix firepower with tongue-in-cheek attitude. Eastwood's misfit troops are in the army and in the money when they slip behind enemy lines to steal Nazi gold. Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas and Don Rickles are among the larcenous heroes in Kelly's Heroes [Side A]. The Dirty Dozen [Side B] is the influential granddaddy of hard-hitting ensemble action flicks, a tale of jailed losers volunteered in the army way for a suicide mission. Marvin plays the tough-as-nails major who bullies his squad (Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Sutherland, Savalas and more) into a fighting unit that can win this war any of a dozen ways. Fall in for action!
Kelly's Heroes / The Dirty Dozen (Double Feature) Reviews:
Kelly's Heroes/The Dirty Dozen 
2009-03-27 - Both movies take place during WW II. The story lines are as completely different as are the stars of the movies. Clint Eastwood (Kelly) is looking for German gold in Kelly's Heroes. Lee Marvin is looking to stay alive while training a dozen condemned prisoners. Both films are well done and worth the watch. Neither are for children.
Great buy for classic movies
2009-03-25 - This is classic WWII movie genre- and you get 2 movies on one disc. All are full length (no shortcuts). So many stars-Sutherland, Eastwood, Rickles, Marvin- real actors who made movies before the time of computerized special effects. Yea for movies with actual plot.
Misleading product details. 
2009-03-16 - Don't be mislead. This is a one-disc, side a, side b, double feature. The product details are wrong. I love the movies. They are both full of action and have their own brand of humor. I will keep the disc despite expecting one thing (a two disc set) and getting another.
A Great Value for Those Who Just Want to Watch the Movies! 
2009-01-06 - I think pretty much all the previous reviewers, as well as myself, agree that both these movies are great war flicks. I saw them both when they were originally released in the theatre and thoroughly enjoyed them. For whatever reason I had never gotten around to buying the movies when they were released on DVD. So when my daughter gave this "Double-Feature" set to me for Christmas I was thrilled.
These are basic DVDs of the films. There are very little "special features" included. Both films have the trailers and the Dirty Dozen has a short featurette on the film. That's pretty much it. But since I'm not a big fan of film commentaries that is fine with me. Most of the time I find the commentaries to be the ramblings of people too darn old to quite remember what they were thinking while they were filming anyway. Just check out the commentaries for The Magnificent Seven (Special Edition). Eli Wallach, James Colburn, and two production managers talking over the top of each other. Drove me nuts!
The big advantage here is that you get both movies, on opposite sides of the same disk, for a great price. Both are uncut so you don't get the "Edited for television and formatted to fit your screen" versions. If you are like me and buy DVDs mostly to watch the movies, and the special features aren't that important to you, then don't hesitate. It will cost you more when purchased separately.
Just what he wanted
2008-09-08 - My husband loves old war movies, and this is exactly what he wanted. HE couldn't be happier!!!
