Schedule permitting, The Inglorious Bastards star Bo Svenson will join us IN PERSON on Wednesday, January 11, to discuss!
“Whatever the Dirty Dozen did they do it dirtier!” Bo Svenson is one of five survivors when a military prison transport headed to a stockade during WW2 is bombarded by German planes. In agreement with his renegade comrades (Fred Williamson, Pete Hooten, Michael Pergolani, Jackie Basehart), Svenson leads the bunch towards neutral Switzerland where they hope to sit out the hostilities and avoid both fighting and prison. But through a tragic misadventure, they’re forced to volunteer for an impossible mission to retrieve a Nazi V2 rocket warhead from behind enemy lines. Co-starring Ian Bannen, Michel Constantin. This gritty, underrated action film served as inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
“Marry the gut-level contradictions found in Samuel Fuller’s movies, the action poetry of Sam Peckinpah’s work, and the verve and intensity of the exclusively male combat units seen in the war films of any number of American filmmakers from Robert Aldrich to Darryl Zanuck, and you’ll get a sense of what you’re in for.” – Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle
Marc Edward Heuck discusses The Inglorious Bastards on the New Beverly blog.
