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Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers are in the process of being shipped off to military prison for a variety of infractions, ranging from desertion to murder. While they're being transported, a German artillery attack hits the convoy, killing the MPs and enabling four of the prisoners to escape. The group .. Read more

Starring Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson, Michael Pergolani
Director Enzo G. Castellari
Genres Action/Adventure, Comedy, Thriller

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Inglorious Bastards

Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers are in the process of being shipped off to military prison for a variety of infractions, ranging from desertion to murder. While they're being transported, a German artillery attack hits the convoy, killing the MPs and enabling four of the prisoners to escape. The group decides their best bet is to head to neutral Switzerland where they can avoid the fighting and prison. As they make their way to what they think will be freedom, they end up volunteering for a commando mission to steal a V2 warhead for the French Underground.

Starring Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson, Michael Pergolani, Jackie Basehart, Michel Constantin, Debra Berger, Raimund Harmstorf, Ian Bannen, Flavio Andreini, Peter Boom, Vito Fornari, Manfred Freyberger, Joshua Sinclair, Mike Morris
Director Enzo G. Castellari
Studio OPTIMUM
Run time DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Action/Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Language English
Released DVD: 10 Aug 2009
Production year: 1978
Format DVD

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    Rated - 4 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Glorious enough!

    This 1978 Italian war thriller is of course set to be revamped by Tarantino, with Brad Pitt in the lead. However, if the imdb is anything to go by, it won't be the same story at all.

    Some confusion with Italian films. This one seemed to be dubbed over at first into English, then it settled down and the voices matched the mouth movements. What gives?

    It's about a bunch of soldiers up for court martial, for a variety of crimes from murder to desertion; they're not specified too much actually. Their lorry is bombed and we start to have sympathy when their officers, who have fled to safety, threaten to have them shot if they leave the van.

    Soon five of the remaining soldiers are 'free' and making a break for Switzerland some 150 miles away. Initially it seemed a nastier, more fly movie than it goes on to be. All the soldiers are real characters, the way they gripe at each other, you warm to them quickly. After a while it settles down into a Dirty Dozen/Where Eagles Dare/Great Escape romp. Any war film where scruffy Yanks get to dress up in German uniform and pass themselves off as the enemy has to be somewhat unbelievable. It gets more ludricous as it goes on.

    But it's never less than entertaining and there's a real good twist half way through the film. The scene with the frauleins bathing naked in the river and its payoff would have had Tarantino taking notes, one feels. And the finale is all guns out, doesn't disappoint. The 'romance' is very perfunctory however and there are a couple of instances where you go 'huh?' Some decent production values for a movie you've never seen though.

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    Rated - 1 star [Highly rated reviewer]

    And here's me looking for Brad...

    I thought this was the new Brad Pitt film, instead it's some old sh*te like the magnificent seven.

    Make sure you know what you're getting with this.

    This was made in the seventies.

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    DiCaprio for Tarantino's 'Bastards'?

    • 17 Jul 2008

    Quentin Tarantino is thought to be keen to sign up Leonardo Di Caprio for a part in his forthcoming film Inglorious Bastards. The Departed star could be set to join Brad Pitt in the movie, which will tell the story of a battalion of soldiers stranded behind enemy lines during World War II. Pitt reportedly met with the Pulp Fiction director in France on Tuesday, where he and partner Angelina Jolie are celebrating the birth of their twins. According to Variety, a meeting between Tarantino and... Read more

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