We all want a good spirit and there were very sensational capers in the real life that grabbed the titles over the years. But what is the biggest? The names that pass in mind include the big train robbery in the UK, Lufthansa Heist (who played a key role in Goodfellas), and, recently, the theft of Diamond Antwerp has been healthier as a "heist of the century". These crimes were withdrawn from records, but in terms of pure impudence, DB Cooper Parahuting outside the hijacked jet with cash bags brought beatings. If the Guinness World Record is something that should take place, however, the biggest robbery ever committed, included a series of Nazi gold stolen from under the nose of the authorities in the consequences of World War II. It sounds like a brilliant film plot and it was so, providing inspiration for Kelly's "Heroes".

In which Clint Eastwood starred as a titular character, the adventure of Heista's adventures in World War II hit theaters in 1970. It was a great year for military films, with "Torah! Torah!" Torah! " (which Akira Kurosawa was originally scheduled for co-regions. Best War Movies of All TimeFranklin's multi-axle winner Patton, also hitting the big screen. Among that Ellevelian lining, "Kelly's Heroes" initially encountered as more as one of those famous 1960s, such as "Navarari Guns", "The Great Escape", "von Ryan Express" or "Dirty Tens", before discovering its more subversive nature.

Kelly's "Heroes" gave director Brian Haton a chance to send him with his laconic starvet "Where Eagles dare" and blow up more things, with Eastwood joined by Teli Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Don Ricks and excellent support for Mot. the chorial of the third blow. Spray, noisy, macho, cynical, excessive and often very funny, Kelly's "Heroes" were not a big hit on the box office despite earning a lot of positive notifications. However, now, it is now considered a classic military film and is generally loved by veterans. Let's look at the robbery in the real life that inspired it and how the movie holds today.

The Guinness Book of World Records (now simply Guinness World Records) is a source of unusual factors of the first publication in 1955. Between 1956 and 2000, her list for the biggest heists was: "The biggest record of record was on the German national reserves in Bavaria by a combination of US military and German civilians in 1945." The entrance is probably attributed to the book outside of print called "Gold is where you hide it" by W. Stanley Moss, a former British officer and adventurers, who visited post -war Germany to investigate large amounts of gold that disappeared in transit.

When it became clear that Germany would lose the war, the Nazis moved their gold reserves and stole prey at secret locations hidden in the south of the country. After the Third Reich fell, the Allies renewed much of the wealth. However, a 100 gold rod cash has never reached its destination at the Frankfurt Depositary, believed to have been stolen by two mysterious US intelligence officers. In addition, there are suggestions that this missing stance was part of the much larger and still undiscovered rebrandrop, $ 366 million in today's money.

Admission to Guinness has awakened the interest of screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, who will also climb "Italian work". The Metro-Golodwin-Meyer was interested in the idea, and so, in December 1968, Eliot Morgan wrote to Guinness from the studio's research department, asking more details, as there was no record of the crime available elsewhere. Morgan received a response from Norris McCarter, one of two identical twins obsessed with facts that edited the book at the time. Mr -McCarter advised that there is very little information about Heist and the list is a "limited classification". Not only that, but he also pointed out that there may be a concealment.

McCarter's suspicions were eventually proven. British journalist Jan Sayer, co-author of the sensational book "Nazi gold: The story of the world's biggest robbery-and its consequences", conducted a nine-year investigation as part of his research. He concluded that there was really a concealment of the US government over missing gold and suspected co -operation between US troops and former German officers. Sayer's investigation eventually contributed to the takeover of two gold bars (worth over $ 1 million) in 1996, but the rest of the bold is still missing.

At first glance, "Kelly's Heroes" really feel in accordance with the films that are rolling on a 1960s mission. There are all the elements, with heavy cookies Clint Eastwood and Teli Savalas, who are headed to the crew of bite people gathered for a dangerous mission behind the enemy lines. It can certainly be enjoyed as an escapist adventure according to those terms, with many activities, explosions and comedy on the road, as its waters are overwhelming chances for the road to their bumper day of 14,000 gold bars. However, the most stupid and most noticeable element of the film is also the strongest hint that there is something more satirical and anti-authoritarian in play-namely, Donald Sutherland as the commander of the Topal Tank.

Constantly stoned, cassranced phrases, and discouraging all the "negative waves" of his people, the unusualness looks very much like a hippie, which was lost at the end of the tail of the counterculture movement and found in a movie of boys in World War II. In other words, his presence moves Kelly's "Heroes" to this day since 1970, where the Vietnam war was still looking for the lives of thousands of soldiers. That year, "Patton" waxed nostalgic for military-school military people as the general, but "M*a*s*n" and "catch-22" hit a firm anti-military note. Kelly's "Heroes" fall somewhere between them, giving the audience hundreds of hundreds The Nazis get what comes to them while at the same time taking more cynical and non -heroan attitude. In that sense, the title is ironic; Men here decide that since they will soon be fodder in the forefront during the chaotic advancement of the allies through the occupied France, they could also complete the cause and risk their lives trying to get rich instead.

The film allows them to get out of it as well. Unlike "Italian work" on screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, who left Michael Caine and his gang on the edge of losing the stolen gold over a rock edge, there is no threat of ironic importance to Kelly and his associates, including the SS officer, who deals with a deal. Neither are they upset by a good conscience, perhaps forced to share the poorly achieved benefits with city -ending city bras during a heist. They simply ride the sunset with prey, similar to the real life robbers who inspired the film.