carbines and no M-1 rifles. Gutkowski, the unit's sniper, was armed with a Soviet Mosin–Nagant M91/30 rifle. The German soldiers were armed almost exclusively with MP 40 submachine guns. The U.S. plane that attacked Kelly's group was a Yugoslavian Soko 522 with a U.S. Army air force roundels. Deleted scenes 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. Some of the deleted scenes were shown on promotional stills and described in interviews with cast and crew for Cinema Retro's special edition article about Kelly's Heroes: 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, in which 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 in which 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. Musical score and soundtrack The film score was composed, arranged, and conducted by Lalo Schifrin, while the soundtrack album was released by MGM Records in 1970. The President of MGM Records, Mike Curb, wrote two songs for the film, with his group the Mike Curb Congregation performing