{"id":3315,"date":"2009-08-25T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2026-03-18T06:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:27:23","slug":"bastards-with-an-a-the-original-inglorious-bastards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=3315","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bastards&#8221; With An &#8220;a&#8221;: The Original Inglorious Bastards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3474\" title=\"The origins of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds explored; Enzo Castellari\u2019s 70\u2019s low budget, fast-moving, action-tale \" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Inglorious-Bastards2.jpg\" alt=\"Inglorious-Bastards2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Inglorious-Bastards2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Inglorious-Bastards2-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that drive-in genre auteur <a title=\"Quentin Tarantino\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Quentin+Tarantino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s<\/a> long-talked-about World War II saga Inglourious Basterds has finally made it onto the big screen&#8211;and captured the box office brass ring on its opening weekend&#8211;two questions remain in the public&#8217;s mind: What&#8217;s up with Tarantino&#8217;s spelling, and are his &#8220;basterds&#8221; anything like the\u00a0ones in the\u00a0&#8217;70s Italian-made actioner? Well, Quentin&#8217;s keeping mum on the former, and I really can&#8217;t give an answer on the latter because I haven&#8217;t gotten to\u00a0the new film yet (for a veteran employee of\u00a0the home video business, I don&#8217;t\u00a0get to the theater as much as some), but I would like to offer a look back at the original, and let you see\u00a0what happens when you mix Sam Fuller, Sam Peckinpah\u00a0and Sergio Leone&#8230;and toss in a little <a title=\"Fred Williamson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Fred+Williamson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fred Williamson<\/a> for good measure.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Firmly entrenched in the &#8220;men-on-a-suicide-mission&#8221; tradition of\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Navarone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D69692&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Guns of Navarone<\/a>, <a title=\"The Dirty Dozen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D11905&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Dirty Dozen<\/a> and <a title=\"Kelly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D16841&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kelly&#8217;s Heroes<\/a>, director <a title=\"Enzo G. Castellari\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Enzo+G.+Castellari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Enzo G. Castellari&#8217;s<\/a> <a title=\"Inglorious Bastards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D10335&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Inglorious Bastards<\/a> (yeah, that&#8217;s right, QT also\u00a0changed the spelling of &#8220;Inglorious&#8221;) is set, like Tarantino&#8217;s tale, in 1944 France, where a truckload of U.S. soldiers awaiting court martial\u00a0is attacked by German forces. When the smoke clears, the five surviving prisoners&#8211;no-nonsense\u00a0G.I. Williamson, who killed a man in a racially-motivated brawl; bigoted wise-ass Peter Hooten;\u00a0deserter Jackie Basehart;\u00a0petty thief\/forger\u00a0Michael Pergolani, whose hippie-length hair must have been inspired by Donald Sutherland&#8217;s in Kelly&#8217;s Heroes; and rogue flyer <a title=\"Bo Svenson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Bo+Svenson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bo Svenson<\/a>, who &#8220;borrowed&#8221; a plane to visit his girlfriend&#8211;figure\u00a0there&#8217;s nothing but jail awaiting them back behind Allied lines\u00a0and decide to make for the Swiss border and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The quintet gets help from a\u00a0German soldier\u00a0they capture in a\u00a0farmhouse, but between them and their goal are obstacles ranging from\u00a0frisky frauleins frolicking naked in a river who are equally adept at firing machine guns (Bet QT wishes he&#8217;d thought of that one!) to a battle with what appears to be an enemy platoon. It&#8217;s this last skirmish that\u00a0eventually gets the Bastards involved with a band of French underground fighters and accidentally\u00a0caught up in a new mission: to steal a V-2 rocket gyroscope from Nazi scientists on board a heavily-guarded train and get it back to the Allies.<\/p>\n<p>Hampered by\u00a0both a\u00a0lack of studio funds and a government-enforced confiscation of\u00a0 firearms (!) in mid-production thanks to Italian anti-terrorism laws,\u00a0 Castellari and his scriptwriters were\u00a0able to come up with a fast-moving, action-filled tale\u00a0that overcomes\u00a0its limitations. A rescue scene set inside a German-held castle shows off the filmmaker&#8217;s resourcefulness\u00a0with alternative weaponry ranging from spears to a slingshot, although\u00a0the budget problems crop up later in some unconvincing\u00a0miniature train work and re-used footage of people being blown into the air by explosions.\u00a0On the acting side, stars Williamson and Svenson convey the macho without descending too far into self-parody, and\u00a0you\u00a0have to be impressed with the fact that the duo did nearly all their own stunts&#8230;including the ever-cool Fred jumping off a bridge onto a moving locomotive. There &#8216;s also able support from Pergolani, who does most of the film&#8217;s comic relief,\u00a0and <a title=\"Ian Bannen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Ian+Bannen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ian Bannen<\/a> as a colonel who begrudgingly joins forces with the Bastards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3473\" title=\"The origins of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds explored; Enzo Castellari\u2019s 70\u2019s low budget, fast-moving, action-tale \" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Inglorious-Bastards1.jpg\" alt=\"Inglorious-Bastards1\" width=\"244\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Formerly available on home video only in often-truncated VHS\u00a0versions with such\u00a0retitlings as\u00a0Deadly Mission, Counterfeit Commandos\u00a0and (most infamously) G. I. Bro, the original Inglorious Bastards was finally given\u00a0a quality release last summer by Severin Films\u00a0with blu-ray and\u00a0 one- and three-disc DVD editions. All three feature a conversation between Castellari and the ever-talkative Tarantino, while the three-disc set and blu-ray also includes a great &#8220;making of&#8221; documentary and other extras. Once you&#8217;ve seen the new film (assuming that, like me, you haven&#8217;t already), you&#8217;ll definitely want to\u00a0go back and see the Bastards that inspired the Basterds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that drive-in genre auteur Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s long-talked-about World War II saga Inglourious Basterds has finally made it onto the big screen&#8211;and captured the box office brass ring on its opening weekend&#8211;two questions remain in the public&#8217;s mind: What&#8217;s up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5588,5592],"coauthors":[1720],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-notes","tag-movie-reviews","tag-war-movies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Bastards&quot; 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