MGM releases "Kelly's Heroes" in the US.
While on location in London in July of 1969, Clint Eastwood buys a Norton Commando 750, two days later he fails to turn up for shooting. Director Brian Hutton is infuriated.
Eastwood ( starring as 'Private Kelly', the platoon's de facto leader) along with friend and cohort Harry Dean Stanton ('Private Willard') go AWOL for four days. The duo repeat their bike adventure while filming in the Istrian village of Vižinada in Yugoslavia, this time for 6 days. Hutton goes crazy as Clint shrugs it off.
In an interview with Edyth James for 'Film Now!', he claims the Director "had a bug up his ass" and he didn't understand. Flashing that impish grin he told James, "C'mon it was a new bike!"
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