Inglourious Basterds

Well, snowed under with work and haven't got to another Rex episode yet. Plan to put up the next episode soon.

However, I did finally get to watch 'Inglourious Basterds'. Now, I'm no Tarantino fan and my interest in watching this movie was purely Rex-related, in terms of checking out Brandtner (Gedeon Burkhard). Later, I also discovered Christoph Waltz was in the movie, who I loved in 'Der Puppenmoerder' back in the earlier Moser series of Rex.

So?

Well, the movie itself was okay. Thankfully not as violent as other Tarantino efforts, although I found the scalping a little challenging to watch.However, Gedeon's role turned out to be a bit of a non-event. He had very few lines, woefully underused and was taken out halfway through. No Rex to watch his back!

Waltz owned the movie, owned it. No wonder he won the Oscar. If you watch the movie for any reason, he should be it. If you don't fancy the movie, revisit him in 'Der Puppenmoerder'.

I liked the continual change between languages, although the sound quality made some of the language hard to catch in places. If you're no lingust, you might find the frequent use of non-English dialogue irritating.

I thought Brad Pitt was plain cheesy but I'm no fan and usually avoid his movies....and Mike Meyers as the General Ed Fenech was just plain stupid. He still seemed to be channeling Austin Powers. If he'd let slip a 'yeah, baby, yeah', I wouldn't have been a bit surprised.

More Gedeon

Gedeon at the LA premiere of Inglorious Basterds.

Recognise this other Rexer? The great Christoph Waltz, who was extra creepy as the doll maker in 'Der Puppenmoerder', vintage Moser Rex.

Rex Resolution 34: Der Puppenmoerder

Italian again. Just imagine it's Thursday evening.

This happens to be one of my favourites. Christoph Waltz displays just the right amount of creepiness as Martin Wolf, doll manufacturer looking for his ideal 'doll' woman. I'd love to know more about the background that incited such behaviour...sadly, Rex very rarely gives much of a psychological background.

Charming to the extreme, Martin entices several female customers to view his doll collection privately. So benign does he appear, they're happy to dress up like dolls and allow him to apply their lipstick (now, you'd think that should ring alarm bells). All is well and good with the women until he wants racier photos and clothing adjustments. When resist, charming Martin strangles them in the shop and relocates their bodies to a disused Viennese brick factory.

Moser soon identifies a common link between victims - a love of dolls - and when one of Martin's victim manages to escape his clutches by smashing a doll over his head and reports what happened, he's soon on the Martin's trail.

Things worsen when a small child observes Martin removing a corpse. He tries to convince the girl that it was a life size doll she saw. Kids aren't that easily duped and, when he feels threatened, he lures the girl into a deadly trap. Unfortunately for Martin, Moser and Rex turn up just in time to foil his plans. No surprises there!

Other players include Christoph Waltz as Martin Wolf, coincidentally set to star in Inglourious Basterds with Gedeon Burkhard, the late Susi Nicoletti, not credited with IMDB for this episode, Paula Polak, not credited with IMDB for this episode, Therese Lohner, not credited with IMDB for this episode, Christine Sommer as Ingrid Czermak, not credited with IMDB for this episode

and Ursula Koban, not credited with IMDB for this episode.

No recycling in this episode.