Release Date: 07/29/2008
Label/Distributor: Severin
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Retail Price: $19.95
Genre: Action & Adventure Cast: Bo Svenson,Fred Williamson,Peter Hooten,Michael Constantin,Ian Bannen
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Running Time: 99
DVD Video Options: Color,Dolby,NTSC,Widescreen
DVD Audio Options: English;Original Language
UPC Code: 891635001391
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-« 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!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:-áACTION/ADVENTURE/CLASSICS UPC:-á891635001391 Manufacturer No:-áSEV1133
The Inglorious Bastards
By Cyril Pearl -- Video Business, 7/21/2008
SEVERINStreet: July 29
Prebook: now
> Well-supplemented edition of guns-a-blazin’ ’70s war flick.
A throwback to the great World War II “deadly mission” movies of the ’60s, such as Kelly’s Heroes and particularly The Dirty Dozen, Italian genre journeyman Enzo G. Castellari’s The Inglorious Bastards finds badass escaped Allied convicts Fred Williamson and Bo Svenson leading a gang of renegades on a suicide assignment in Nazi-occupied France. Lots of mean posturing and stylish gunplay elevates this Italian exploitation entry several notches above other similar flicks from the era. Severin Films’ three-disc edition builds upon Bastards’ reputation as a cult favorite with a director’s commentary, a soundtrack disc and three new featurettes, including one that finds fan Quentin Tarantino in conversation with Castellari at one point gushing to him, “Your use of slow motion is just terrific!”
Shelf Talk: Though undeniably entertaining, Inglorious Bastards is not the near-classic that Severin is promoting it as. The key selling point is that Tarantino plans to remake the film, tentatively slated for theatrical release in 2009.
Action, color, NR (mature themes, violence, language, nudity), 89 min., DVD $19.95, three-disc set $29.95Extras on three-disc: director’s commentary, conversation between director and Quentin Tarantino, featurettes, soundtrack CD
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
First Run: L Intl., 1978, NA
