The Inglorious Bastards (, literally: "That damned armored train") is a 1978 Italian
action/
war film directed by
Enzo G. Castellari, written by
Sandro Continenza,
Sergio Grieco, Franco Marotta, Romano Migliorini, and Laura Toscano, and starring
Bo Svenson,
Peter Hooten,
Fred Williamson, Michael Pergolani, and
Jackie Basehart. The
film score was written by
Francesco De Masi. The film - which concerns a group of prisoners who are drafted into a special war mission in 1944 - is a loose remake of the 1967 American film,
The Dirty Dozen.