A “spaghetti war” film classic: Sarasota’s Peter Hooten on his role in the original Inglorious Bastards

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Peter Hooten's current résumé lists a project titled Voices From Sandover at the very top of the section titled "Film." A verse-video collaboration between Hooten and influential American poet James Merrill, the film — which Hooten both produced and costarred in — remains one of the 59-year-old retired actor's proudest accomplishments.

"I felt really good and I worked a long time on it," Hooten says, lingering over a double espresso and chocolate cake in the dining room at the Sarasota Ritz-Carlton. "And I got really good people together. And we shot it in Cambridge; it was the right atmosphere. … It's not mainstream, but God, it was a labor of love. So who's going to see that? But it will be in the libraries when Inglorious Bastards goes bye-bye. Nobody's going to remember anybody for that."

Quentin Tarantino, no doubt, disagrees.