History Film / TheIngloriousBastards

''The Inglorious Bastards'' is a 1978 Italian film starring Bo Svenson and Creator/FredWilliamson and directed by Enzo G. Castellari. It has little to do with the similarly-named ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', although Creator/QuentinTarantino admitted that his film was influenced by the original and gave Svenson and Castellari [[RemakeCameo Remake Cameos]] as an American colonel and a German general respectively.

''The Inglorious Bastards'' is a 1978 Italian film starring Bo Svenson and Fred Williamson and directed by Enzo G. Castellari. It has little to do with the similarly-named ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', although Creator/QuentinTarantino admitted that his film was influenced by the original and gave Svenson and Castellari [[RemakeCameo Remake Cameos]] as an American colonel and a German general respectively.

* AxeCrazy: Tony.
* BadassMustache: Colasanti.

''The Inglorious Bastards'' is a 1978 Italian film starring Bo Svenson and Fred Williamson and directed by Enzo G. Castellari. It has little to do with the similarly-named ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', although Creator/QuentinTarantino admitted that his film was influenced by the original and gave Svenson abd Castellari [[RemakeCameo Remake Cameos]] as an American colonel and a German general respectively.

''The Inglorious Bastards'' is a 1978 Italian film starring Bo Svenson and Fred Williamson and directed by Enzo G. Castellari. It has little to do with the similarly-named ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'', although Creator/QuentinTarantino admitted that his film was influenced by the original and gave Castellari a RemakeCameo as a German general.

Yeager, as the ranking officer, takes command, and aims to get the group across the [[RunForTheBorder French border]] into neutral Switzerland. Along the way the group meets a fellow deserter from the opposing side in [[DefectorFromDecadence friendly German soldier]] [[MookFaceTurn Corporal Adolf Sachs]], who agrees to help guide the Americans to the border. After several misadventures, which sadly includes the death of Adolf, the "Inglorious Bastards" mistakenly kill a group of American troops disguised as German ones, who were on a commando mission to destroy a Nazi train. The soldiers' leader, Colonel Buckner (Ian Bannen), demands that the Bastards fill in for his dead men.

[[DuringTheWar During]] UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, a group of Allied prisoners are in the process of being transferred to a prison. They include [[ScaryBlackMan Fred Canfield]], a black soldier who murdered a white sergeant for a racial insult, [[DangerousDeserter deserter]] Berle, mutineer [[SociopathicHero Tony]], thief [[TheScrounger Nick Colasanti]] and Army Air Corps pilot Lieutenant Robert Yeager, who is in trouble for flying his plane to England to visit his girlfriend there. Given into the custody of an abusive [[TheNeidermeyer MP sergeant]], the group, and others, are being driven to their destination when two things happen: firstly, their truck gets a flat tire, and secondly, a German plane attacks the all-too-tempting stationary target. This allows the prisoners to get the drop on their captors. They murder the sergeant, but let the other [=MPs=] go.

Yeager, as the ranking officer, takes command, and aims to get the group across the [[RunForTheBorder French border]] into neutral Switzerland. Along the way the group meets a fellow deserter from the opposing side in [[DefectorFromDecadence friendly German soldier]] [[MookFaceTurn Corporal Adolf Sachs]], who agrees to help guide the Americans to the border. After several misadventures, which sadly includes the death of Adolf, the "Inglorious Bastards" mistakenly kill a group of American troops disguised as German ones, who were on a commando mission to destroy a Nazi train. The soldiers' leader, Colonel Buckner, demands that the Bastards fill in for his dead men.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Hey, where's Creator/BradPitt?"]]

** Inverted again during the escape from the Nazi castle. [[spoiler:They [[NeckSnap kill]] the SS commander but use non-lethal force against his lieutenant and two of other Nazis in the room, only [[TapOnTheHead knocking them out]].]]

** Played straight at the end. On the train, after killing all the Nazi guards [[spoiler:except one who was only knocked out]], they have the high-ranking German officers captured. Rather than murder them, they simply make them jump off (the officers think they're about to be killed, but just get hilariously booted off and roll harmlessly down the hellside). Except the general, who apparently ''did'' get killed in a DeletedScene. [[spoiler:The knocked out guard then wakes up and kills Yeager and is shot in retaliation.]]

** Played straight at the end. On the train, after killing all the Nazi guards [[spoiler:except one who was only knocked out]], they have the high-ranking German officers captured. Rather than murder them, they simply make them jump off (the officers think they're about to be killed, but just get [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilariously]] booted off and roll harmlessly down the hellside). Except the general, who apparently ''did'' get killed in a DeletedScene. [[spoiler:The knocked out guard then wakes up and kills Yeager and is shot in retaliation.]]

** Played straight at the end. On the train, after killing all the Nazi guards [[spoiler:except one who was only knocked out]], they have the high-ranking German officers captured. Rather than murder them, they simply make them [[CrowningMomentOfFunny jump off harmlessly one by one]]. Except the general, who apparently ''did'' get killed in a DeletedScene. [[spoiler:The knocked out guard then wakes up and kills Yeager and is shot in retaliation.]]

** Played straight at the end. On the train, after killing all the Nazi guards [[spoiler:except one who was only knocked out]], they have the high-ranking German officers captured. [[spoiler:Rather than murder them, they simply make them [[CrowningMomentOfFunny jump off]] harmlessly one by one. Except the general, who apparently did get killed in a DeletedScene. The knocked out guard then wakes up and kills Yeager and is shot in retaliation.]]

* WhatMeasureIsAMook? ZigZaggedTrope:

** On the train, after killing all the Nazi guards [[spoiler:except one who was only knocked out]], they have the high-ranking German officers captured. [[spoiler:Rather than murder them, they simply make them [[CrowningMomentOfFunny jump off]] harmlessly one by one. Except the general, who apparently did get killed in a DeletedScene. The knocked out guard then wakes up and kills Yeager and is shot in retaliation.]]

** Inverted again during the escape from the Nazi castle. [[spoiler:They kill the SS commander but use non-lethal force against his lieutenant and two of Nazis in the room, only [[TapOnTheHead knocking them out]].]]
** On the train, after killing all the Nazi guards ([[spoiler:except one who was only knocked out]]), [[spoiler:they have the high-ranking German officers on the train captured at the end, rather than murder them, they simply make them [[CrowningMomentOfFunny jump off]] harmlessly one by one. Except the general, who apparently did get killed in a DeletedScene. The knocked out guard then wakes up and kills Yeager and is shot in retaliation.]]