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During filming in Yugoslavia in 1969, Donald Sutherland (Oddball) received word, via co-star Clint E [...]	D
John Landis was a production assistant on this movie. He also appeared as an extra (he was one of th [...]	D
Donald Sutherland (Oddball) became seriously ill during filming on-location in Yugoslavia. His wife [...]	D
The German Tiger tank commander (Karl-Otto Alberty) appears to be a parody, both in appearance and m [...]	D
Kelly (Clint Eastwood) wears an officer's olive drab fatigue shirt with epaulets on the shoulders, f [...]	D
At the beginning of the movie, Big Joe (Telly Savalas) is desperate to know about the best places to [...]	D
In the 1990s, a group of Swedish war game enthusiasts started to build a 1/72-scale model of the tow [...]	D
This movie was going to have a female role, but prior to filming, it was cut from the script. Ingrid [...]	D
This was the twenty-fourth highest-grossing movie of 1970.	D
Clint Eastwood and Donald Sutherland appeared in Space Cowboys (2000).	D
George Savalas (Sergeant Mulligan) was the younger brother of Telly (Big Joe). They appeared togethe [...]	D
The American fighter plane that attacks Kelly's group was actually a Yugoslavian "Ikarus Type 522" t [...]	D
Mike Curb, who wrote the lyrics to this movie's theme song, "Burning Bridges", served as Lieutenant [...]	D
Troy Kennedy Martin wrote two movies about gold heists, this movie and The Italian Job (1969). Ironi [...]	D
Clint Eastwood signed to do this movie mainly because his friend and favorite director, Don Siegel, [...]	D
It was while working on this movie that John Landis got the idea for Un lupo mannaro americano a Lon [...]	D
The blue "crosshair" shoulder patch indicates Kelly (Clint Eastwood) and his men are from the 35th I [...]	D
Oddball mentions that his tanks are equipped with the 'regular 76mm' gun. While 76mm gun-armed Sherm [...]	D
Carroll O'Connor and Tom Troupe also appeared in "The Devil's Brigade," and O'Connor played a genera [...]	D
At one point, the soldiers are lying down and resting in a field, while Willard ( Harry Dean Stanton [...]	D
Before they set off, Oddball (Donald Sutherland) mentions that he added pipes to his tanks guns to m [...]	D
No date is provided for when this movie takes place, though according to several facts mentioned, a [...]	D
The noise made by electric motors of the Tiger tank turrets was later used for the movements of the [...]	D
A record was made of Clint Eastwood singing "Burning Bridges", the theme song from this movie. It wa [...]	D
Crapgame (Don Rickles) makes a phone call to "Hogan in Intelligence"- this is a likely inside joke r [...]	D
Although the film is set in France, filming was done in the former Yugoslavia (now Croatia). The mus [...]	D
In the film, Kelly and his crew ultimately steal $12 million worth of gold. During WWII, gold was wo [...]	D
A gold bar of four hundred troy ounces would measure roughly 2"x3"x9" and weigh about twenty-eight p [...]	D
Troy Kennedy-Martin wrote Un colpo all'italiana (1969), another movie about a gold heist.	D
This movie's Japanese souvenir booklet's synopsis of the movie ends as follows "What happens to The [...]	D
Much like M.A.S.H. (1970) (also with Donald Sutherland) and Comma 22 (1970), this is a commentary on [...]	D
There is a nod to Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns in the stand-off with the Tiger tank, a tongue [...]	D
The Cross of Lorraine, which was the symbol of Free France during WW2, appears several times here in [...]	D
The "key" symbol on the Tiger tanks denotes that they are attached to the 1st S.S. Panzer Division " [...]	D
Not one characters full name is ever revealed. All are addressed by either surname, first name, nick [...]	D
Yves Montand is often mistakenly credited as playing a German officer seen mainly in long shots in t [...]	D
Artillery Sergeant Mulligan (George Savalas) has a humorous name. In golf, a "mulligan" is a "do-ove [...]	D
If each bar of gold is 2.5 x 1.5 x 10 inches, then it weighs 26.2 lbs. 14,000 bars would weigh 366,4 [...]	D
A mysterious bar of Nazi gold was also part of the plot in the James Bond film "Goldfinger."	D
Oddball (Donald Sutherland) carries a Luger P-08 "Parabellum" semiautomatic pistol, which was in ser [...]	D
The three Tiger I tanks used were actually ex-Soviet Army T-34 tanks, converted in great detail by s [...]	D
Kelly, Big Joe, and the other recon soldiers wear the shoulder patch of the 35th Infantry Division, [...]	D
The American fighter that attacks Kelly's group should have had three stripes painted on each wing a [...]	D
Oddball's (Donald Sutherland's) division is the "Super Sixth", the 6th Armored Division.	D
Yugoslavia was chosen as a location mostly because earnings from previous showings of movies there c [...]	D
John G Heller appears as a German lieutenant in this film. He was also in the 1968 film Where Eagles [...]	D
John Landis kept telling Donald Sutherland that he would one day be a movie director. Sutherland tol [...]	D
Gavin MacLeod changed military uniforms to the Army for his role here. He previously played naval ch [...]	D
Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland appeared in Quella sporca dozzina (1967).	D
Valued at $16 million, 14,000 gold bars equals about $1,143 per bar. At the then-current price of $3 [...]	D
Donald Sutherland fell into a coma with spinal meningitis during production. He reports that his doc [...]	D
Approximately twenty minutes were cut from the movie by MGM and studio boss James T. Aubrey before t [...]	D
When Oddball calls his Sergeant pal (and interrupts a crap game), the soldier answering replies it's [...]	D
The movie was mainly filmed in Yugoslavia because the Yugoslavian army still had a large quantity of [...]	D
Gutkowski (Richard Davalos) carried and used a Russian sniper rifle, a Mosin Nagant M91/30.	D

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