'The Dirty Dozen' - Robert Aldrich's 1967 saga is the ultimate example of the men-on-a-mission war subgenre that inspired Tarantino's 'Inglourious Basterds.' Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland and Telly Savalas are featured in the tale of imprisoned bottom-feeders who get a second chance as part of a hell-raising Allied commando unit. Make a World War II movie that's just entertaining, that you just enjoy watching the movie.' 'That's one of the most entertaining movies ever made and was kind of the touchstone goal for ('Inglourious Basterds') to one degree or another. 'The Great Escape' - Is there any cooler World War II premise than John Sturges' 1963 epic about a mass escape of Allied POWs from a Nazi prison camp, or a cooler cast than Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn, Charles Bronson and Donald Pleasence? 'Probably my favorite war movie,' Tarantino said.
