Inglourious Basterds

When Quentin Tarantino was just a video store clerk filled with filmmaking dreams, he and his pals shared a shorthand for the against-all-odds mission movie they would someday make: "This will be our 'Inglorious Bastards!' " Tarantino and his friends would say.

Other aspiring filmmakers might have cited "The Dirty Dozen" or "The Magnificent Seven" for reference, but Tarantino -- who always has been drawn to and has an encyclopedic knowledge of obscure B movies -- preferred director Enzo Castellari's 1978 Italian World War II film "Inglorious Bastards," a sometimes campy drama about renegade soldiers shooting and blowing up Nazis in World War II France.

"...Their mission is to psychologically beat the Germans by desecrating and butchering their bodies, taking their scalps, disemboweling them, and always leaving one soldier alive to tell the story..."

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Los Angeles Times
By: John Horn