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"FacebookPinterest\n\nQuentin Tarantino has made his fortune blowing up film&amp;#39;s most violent genres: crime caper, horror, martial arts. In his latest gorefest, Inglourious Basterds\u2014in which Brad Pitt leads Jewish-American commandos behind enemy lines to slaughter and scalp Nazis\u2014the director of Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill saga takes on the World War II movie, and, in particular, one its most satisfyingly explosive subtypes: the Men On A Suicide Mission (MOASM) flick.\n\nBorn during the war itself through propaganda films such as 1943&amp;#39;s Gung Ho!, the MOASM movie reached its zenith in 1967 with the Lee Marvin/Telly Savalas tour de force The Dirty Dozen. That film\u2014in which condemned American criminals are promised their freedom if they survive a ludicrous diversionary mission on the eve of D-Day\u2014enshrined the quintessential elements of the MOASM flick: a militarily preposterous objective; a squad composed of oddballs and misfits; dubious operational accuracy; a traitor (or at least a malevolent screw-up) in the heroes&amp;#39; midst; the presence of Marvin- and Savalas-like stock characters; and, of course, an absurdly high Kraut body count.\n\nHere&amp;#39;s a look at nine of the all-time greatest MOASM movies, and how they stack up against one another\u2014from The Dirty Dozen to the 1978 Italian movie that gave Tarantino his inspiration. So before (or after) you settle in to watch Pitt chew up a cigar and spit out Germans, check out how his forbears Marvin and Savalas\u2014not to mention Clint Eastwood, Richard Burton, Donald Sutherland, and Charles Bronson\u2014cleared his way."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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