Quel maledetto treno blindato (1978)

Director:

Enzo G. Castellari

Writers:

Sandro Continenza (story) &
Sergio Grieco (story) ...

Release Date:

December 1981 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | War

Tagline:

Whatever the Dirty Dozen did they do it dirtier!

Plot:

Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers are in the process of being shipped off to military prison for a variety of infractions...

Plot Keywords:

WWII | Prisoner | Murder | Escape | American

Cast

Bo Svenson	...	Lt. Robert Yeager
Peter Hooten	...	Tony
Fred Williamson	...	Pvt. Fred Canfield
Michael Pergolani	...	Nick
Jackie Basehart	...	Berle
Michel Constantin	...	Veronique
Debra Berger	...	Nicole
Raimund Harmstorf	...	Adolf Sachs
Ian Bannen	...	Col. Charles Thomas Buckner
Flavio Andreini
Peter Boom	...	German Officer on Train
Vito Fornari
Manfred Freyberger	...	SS Commander
Joshua Sinclair	...	The Sergeant (as John Loffredo)
Mike Morris	...	Colonel Hauser

Also Known As:

Bastardi senza gloria (Italy) (working title)
Counterfeit Commandos (USA) (reissue title)
Deadly Mission (USA) (video title)
G.I. Bro (USA) (recut version)
Hell's Heroes (USA) (video title)
The Dirty Bastard (Philippines: English title)
The Inglorious Bastards (USA)
Aquel maldito tren blindado (Spain) [es]
Assalto ao Trem Blindado (Brazil) (video title) [pt]
Bohaterowie z piekla (Poland) [pl]
Commando bastards (Norway) (video title) [no]
Ein Haufen verwegener Hunde (West Germany) [de]
Kelvottomat (Finland) (video title) [fi]
Med pansartåg till helvetet (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]
O Expresso Blindado da S.S. Nazista (Brazil) [pt]
Oi iroes den koimountai pote (Greece) (reissue title) [el]
Panssarijunalla helvettiin (Finland) [fi]
Saboteur horis doxa (Greece) [el]
Une poignée de salopards (France) [fr]

Runtime:

99 min | UK:90 min (cut version) | Germany:76 min (cut version)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian | German | French | English

Color:

Color (Telecolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Sweden:(Banned) | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 (US version) | Sweden:15 (video rating) | Norway:15 (uncut DVD version) (2007) | Singapore:M18 | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (2007) | Australia:M | Portugal:M/12 | West Germany:18 (nf) | Germany:18 (DVD rating) | France:U | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1978) | USA:R | Norway:16 (video) (1981) (unrated video version) | Norway:(Banned) (1978-2003) (cinema release)

Filming Locations:

Barbarano Romano, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Film Concorde

Trivia:

Fred Williamson is named as a co-writer on screenplay on deposit at the Library of Congress Copyright Office.

Goofs:

Continuity: When he steals a motorcycle you can see that it is an old opposed twin BMW. But for all the stunt riding it is clear to see that he is not on the same motorcycle, he is using a single cylinder dirt bike.

Quotes:

[first title card]
Title Card: FRANCE 1944

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Back to the War Zone (2008) (V)

One of those great "Action-war" movies

An entertaining action-war movie. I remember i bought this movie the in a video-store back in 1986-87. It was an old English video-version from the early 80's (from that time when video-stores in my country imported video-movies direct from England without giving them subtitles)

The movie have some similarity's with "The Dirty Dozen" and it's obvious that the film-makers got much inspiration from this great hit from the 60's. Acting and plot is not the greatest in history, but it's still a very exiting film. Not so much indifferent action-scenes here, like there are in many other movies of this type.

8 out of 10