World War II Nazi Caper Movies

The inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's World War II caper Inglourious Basterds was this 1978 macaroni men-on-a-mission movie. Labouring under the title That Damned Armoured Train, this tells the story of five American GI's who escape from a prison convoy when it's attacked by the Bosche. Heading to Switzerland, they become sidetracked by a French resistance mission to steal the prototype gyroscope for the Nazi V2 from a heavily-guarded train. The movie survived the confiscation of its dummy weapons by the Italian police and the fact that you can clearly see several characters dying twice. In English speaking countries it was more commonly known by the moniker, The Inglorious Bastards...