Product Description

Three Disc Collector's Edition Includes Exclusive New Bonus Features And Never-Before-Released Soundtrack CD

"Whatever THE DIRTY DOZEN did," screamed the ads, "they do it dirtier!" INGLORIOUS BASTARDS is more than just the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's long-rumored next movie; this 1978 international smash remains perhaps the biggest and most badass war movie in EuroCult history! Exploitation legends Fred 'The Hammer' Williamson and Bo (WALKING TALL, KILL BILL) Svenson star as the leaders of a gang of condemned criminals who escape from an Allied prison camp with a plan to blast their way to the Swiss border, only to find themselves 'volunteering' for a suicide mission deep inside Nazi occupied France. Academy Award(r) nominee Ian Bannen (FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX, BRAVEHEART) co-stars in this explosive action epic from director Enzo Castellari (STREET LAW, THE BIG RACKET), now fully restored from original vault elements for the first time ever in America!

EXTRAS:
"Quentin Tarantino and Enzo Castellari in Conversation" - An all-new featurette with the two legendary directors
"Train-Kept-A-Rollin'" - Documentary with Director Enzo Castellari, Stars Fred Williamson, Bo Svenson and Massimo Vanni, Special Effects Artist Gino de Rossi, Producer Roberto Sbarigia, Screenwriter Laura Toscano and Filippo De Masi
"Back to the War Zone" - Locations feturette with Director Enzo Castellari and Special Effects Artist Gino de Rossi
U.S., Italian and German Theatrical Trailers
Audio Commentary with Director Enzo Castellari
Bonus Soundtrack CD containing the previously unreleased score of INGLORIOUS BASTARDS

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18649 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-07-29
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 99 minutes

The Observer
"Director Enzo Castellari Is One Of Quentin Tarantino's Heroes!"

DVD Maniacs
"Action packed fun from start to finish!"

10k Bullets
"An action movie par excellence that never stops being cool!"

Customer Reviews

Fun Film, Great Package
The Italian Dirty Dozen knockoff finally makes it to DVD. The wait was worth it. This review is for the 3 disc edition. A single disc edition is available, but the 3 disc is indeed loaded with goodies. Whatever floats your boat.

Disc 1. The film is actually quite good. Even if it is a Dirty Dozen knockoff, it still has it's own unique charm to stand alone. The characters are all quirky. It doesn't take itself too seriously. It knows what it is (A WW2 men-on-a-mission adventure) and it really wants it's audience to have a good time. Fred Williamson is probably the best actor in here. I don't know what the word would be, but he's just naturally cool. The rest of the cast does a fine job. Sit back and enjoy the ride.

I didn't really give a synopses, but as most would know. It's not the destination, it's the journey getting there. The film is adventurous where it need to be, and humorous in between. I figure anybody looking at this obscure title knows about it already.

The picture quality is really fantastic. With the source material at hand, it's really hard to ask for something better. A Blu-Ray release would have been nice. But I can't complain. We get Inglorious Bastards in it's full uncut glory.

While I didn't listen to the whole thing (Don't have that much free time) Director Enzo supplies the film with an audio commentary. He obviously loves his work, and gives more info then we should know. It's completely worth a listen for the fans. I hope to soon finish it myself.

Disc 1 finishes off with a conversation between Director Enzo G. Castellari and super fan Quentin Tarantino. While I usually despise shameless self promotion (See the back of the package and all it's Tarantino-Esq quotes, eg. "Director [...] Is One Of Quentin Tarantino's Heroes!" Do we care?) This is actually a very good interview in the end. Tarantino being the obsessive fanboy he is, asks a lot of obscure questions. It's worth while in the end. Runs 38 minutes, and is filled with info super fans want to know about.

Disc 2. We start of with a 13 minute featurette where director Enzo revisits shooting locations and gives some interesting tidbits. Only for the super fans. Wasn't that interested myself.

Featurette number 2 is where all the good stuff is. It runs at a lengthy 1 hour 15 minutes. It includes interviews with most of the main players and production team. The best one here is again Fred Williamson. This Doc should easily please all fans. Even someone like me who wasn't a massive follower found this very insightful and well worth my time. A+ material for sure.

Disc 3. The die hard fans should get a kick out of this, but for me it was useless. It's an audio CD with over 20 minutes of unreleased score tracks. Why not just give us the whole soundtrack? It's odd, but I guess they wanted to include everything. Can't fault them for that.

The film: 7.5/10. A really fun WW2 adventure, but it is no where close to the league of Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare, or The Guns Of Navarone.

The DVD: 9 for the extras. Even though a few little add ons were a little useless. This is a great little package for the fans.

Inglorious filmmaking at its finest
My rating: 3.5 out of 5

Premise
*A mixed group of American warfighters are being transported as prisoners in the middle of WWII France. They are ambushed by enemies and are set free. They then spend the rest of their time trying to reach Switzerland, fighting bad guys and running dangerous missions for the French resistance as they go along.

The Good Things
*Video quality is good. It is very colorful, detailed, and clean.
*Includes a number of documentaries, featurettes, trailers, and a bonus CD soundtrack.
*The movie has a great deal of action (although much of it is quite over-the-top).
*The photography is interesting. Some of it is jittery and rough, but other shots are solid. There are also some cool slow-motion scenes.
*Exterior locations are excellent. It looks like they used real European settings (like the scene in the castle).
*The story is not bad. It is well-paced and easy to follow.
*The characters are not bad. They aren't too deep or complex, but they are interesting to watch. Their acting may be seen as ridiculously over-the-top, but I'd say it's good.
*Music is not bad; it's very boisterous and upbeat.

The Bad Things
*Well, you can either call this a really bad movie or a really good cult/B-movie. See below for details.
*Not for young kids; it's unrated, but contains a scene with nudity (nude girls with guns, nonetheless), some violence, and some swearing.

The Questionable Things
*The sound quality is okay; I think it had too many parts where some volume was too low and other parts were too high. Most of the dialogue can still be understood.
*The dialogue is loaded with lines that are...well...ridiculous! If you don't mind, it may not bother you much. I found myself laughing at most of it.
*The plot is riddled with historical inaccuracies. There were some nice touches, like having the guys going after the V2 rocket. But other details, like the types of uniforms, the types of vehicles, and the weapons, are way off. The portrayal of the French resistance is way off. Having a colonel parachuting into the woods is way off. You do not want to see this for any history lessons; you'll either hate it or love the absurdity.
*Even though there are a lot of neat action scenes, many of them are choreographed in a really ridiculous over-the-top fashion. Everybody shoots their guns by wildly waving them around. Everybody who is shot falls over like they're slipping on banana peels. One guy manages to kill people with a slingshot. Nobody ever runs out of ammo. Bad guys appear out of nowhere in endless hoardes. Once again, you'll either hate it, or love the absurdity.
*Some things that happen in the story makes you wonder "why did they do that?"
*The romance story for this whole movie is kind-of contrived. Once again, you'll either hate it, or love the absurdity.
*Some of the sets and props look cheap. Some special effects are obvious models or matte paintings. If you're expecting a high production value, this may dissapoint you.
*Some parts seem to be derrived from other things. Aside from "The Dirty Dozen," I thought of "Bridge on the River Kwai" as I watched the ending. My parents thought one scene resembled the old "Mission Impossible" series (gotta love it how the guy stops a self-destruct device by shoving a pencil in the gears).

I expected a rough, gritty, bloody war epic...but I guess that's what Tarantino's new film will be like. This original version is very over-the-top, with lots of absurd dialogue, action, and events that could never really happen in real life. I wound up laughing at the whole thing, because in nearly every scene, there was something absurd. I thought it was fun because of this, but if you're like my parents, you might be disgusted instead. Rent it to see what you think.

great fun, not a brilliant movie
it's hard to say what I think of this film. It's, in some ways, a brilliant war film that deserves recognition, while it can simultaneously make you shudder. it has a clever plot but then you have dialogue like "hey, those are our flyboys!" (impersonates an airplane while making a machine gun noise); there are some great effects and sets that are made good use of, but you can see the ropes pulling men from an explosion more clearly than you can see the strings in an Ed Wood film; you have naked german women firing machine guns at retreating American troops, and then you have the fact that this scene only lasts a couple of seconds (this is first time that an Italian movie has skimpped out in this category, let alone not completely over do it. It should have been at least a few minutes long, if not for the sex appeal then for the pure hilariouty of it.)
It's like a movie that's so bad that it's good, but at the same time is actually good. And, like many films of this sort, it's main source of entertainment comes from it's cleverness that simply oozes from it's different aspects including plot and filmwork.
The only major problem is that I had expected it to actually go on for about two hours or so until it ended. I would've given it four stars if it were only longer (especially certain *clear throat* scenes).