Message:Wiki to read the whole story. It's kinda fun to think it happened and was kept classified. Movie is a favorite of mine and found this looking up movie quotes for Demon Hunters 1960s, Sadly the movie was released in 1970 for my purposes.
Also found out these scenes were deleted. Trying to keep it PG. Be great if it was restored.
MGM cut approximately 20 minutes from the film before its theatrical release. Eastwood said later in interviews that he was very disappointed about the re-cut by MGM because he felt that many of the deleted scenes not only gave depth to the characters, but also made the movie much better.
Oddball and his crew pack up to go across the lines to meet up with Kelly and others while local village girls are running around half naked.
The platoon encounters a group of German soldiers and naked girls swimming in a pool.
While they wait for Oddball in the barn at night, Kelly and Big Joe talk about their disillusionment with the war and why Kelly was made a scapegoat for the attack that resulted in his demotion.
Another scene was deleted from this part where the platoon decides they do not want to continue with the mission, and Gutkowski threatens Kelly at gunpoint, but Big Joe and Crapgame side with Kelly.
General Colt is in bed with some women when he gets a call that Kelly and others have broken through the enemy lines.
During the attack on the town, production designer John Barry had a cameo as a British airman hiding from the Germans.
One promotional still shows Kelly finding a wounded German soldier among the ruined houses during the final town attack.
Kelly, Oddball and Big Joe discuss tactics while standing on an abandoned Tiger tank before the scene where they negotiate with the German tank commander.
When Kelly and platoon drive off at the end, a bunch of soldiers yell at them that they are headed in the wrong direction.
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01-Jul-2021