REFERENCE: FILM – INGLORIOUS BASTARDS 1977

INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (1977)

Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Also Known As:
Quel maledetto treno blindato (Original Title)
Bastardi senza gloria (Italy) (working title)
Counterfeit Commandos (USA) (reissue title)
Deadly Mission
G.I. Bro (USA) (reissue title)
Hell's Heroes

Cast: Bo Svenson as Sgt. Yeager, Peter Hooten as Tony, Fred Williamson as Fred, Michael Pergolani as Nick and Enzo G. Castellari himself plays a German Officer (uncredited)
Runtime: 99’
Country: Italy
Colour: Colour (Telecolour)
Sound Mix: Mono

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. Somehow, the team must sneak into the most heavily guarded base in German territory, steal the Nazi's most precious military hardware, and bring it back to the allies without getting arrested again by their own side.

This is my favourite War Film; it gets a lot of credit for actually willing to deliver a good amount of action right until the explosive finish.
The violence is rather graphic, noticing soldiers falling out of trains and hitting landfall, but that heightens the reality of the war experience.
It isn't rare to find Italian movies sleazy no matter how serious a situation is, and it's best kept that way.
Fred Williamson, known for BLACK CAESAR and other "blacktion" films, isn't at all a complete waste here, as long as naked broads in the water gain some vengeance in return for him stepping into the party.
Well done for an actor known to possess the "mean" image, but he's fair enough as a guy smoking a cigar out to do battle.
Enzo Castellari's direction comes to as a surprise for a few "trash" fanatics, just when realizing how he would soon manage to go full force on 1990: THE BRONX WARRIORS and GREAT WHITE.
A pretty good war flick from Pizzaland. Never saw so many Nazis getting machine-gunned before…

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: During several of the battles, the same actors can be seen dying multiple times, only from different camera angles, what is really HOT.