TCM has a really inventive double feature on hand tonight: Two war movies that share the same essential premise and structure, yet one is a straight drama adventure, while the other is just as exciting, yet improbably and intentionally comic. The first, at 8 p.m. ET, is 1967’s
The Dirty Dozen, starring Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson. The second, at 10:45 p.m. ET, is 1970’s
Kelly’s Heroes, starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, and Don Rickles. Both movies, amazingly, feature Donald Sutherland in a supporting role. In
Kelly’s Heroes, he’s brilliant as the anachronistic hippie-ish tank commander Oddball (pictured) – whom I misidentified, in
my YouTube video yesterday for TVWW’s Best TV Tomorrow, as Oddjob. Oddjob, of course, threw his razor-sharp hat into the ring, and at James Bond, in
Goldfinger. My favorite
Best TV Tomorrow mistake to date – but we’ve only been doing these for a few weeks, and since I’m speaking without a script, I promise to make many more embarrassing errors. Collect them all. Trade with friends…