It’s not not hard to see what Quentin Tarantino loves so much about this Italian-made Dirty Dozen knock-off about a bunch of “deserters, cutthoats, and thieves” who get stuck on a suicide mission while trying to escape to neutral Switzerland. Even if the casting weren’t pure gold—headlined by the Swedish hulk Bo Svenson and blaxploitation mainstay Fred Williamson and filled out with a handful of American actors who could only get work in Europe and lots of Italian actors in Nazi drag—the knuckle-headed dialogue and admittedly well-staged action setpieces (one of which suddenly turns into a Peckinpah-esque meditation on slow-motion death) place it squarely in the Taratino-verse of B-movie gems. (DVD)