![]() ![]() ![]() In the subsequent withdrawal as German Tiger tanks overrun their position, Dankhopf is shot and killed by the attacking Germans. The drunken Dankhopf blurts out that there is a cache of 14,000 gold bars stored in a bank vault 30 miles behind enemy lines in the town of Clermont. Curious, he gets the Colonel drunk to try to get information about the gold. ![]() Interrogating his prisoner, Kelly notices the officer is carrying several gold bars, disguised under lead plating, in his briefcase. Private Kelly (Eastwood) and another soldier have captured Colonel Dankhopf of German Intelligence. The film opens during a thunderstorm in early September 1944 in World War II France as units of the 35th Infantry Division are nearing the town of Nancy one of the division's mechanized reconnaissance platoons receives orders to hold their position whilst under counterattack from the Germans the out-numbered platoon are also on the receiving end of mortar fire from their own side… ![]()
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