Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California’s pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Alejandro de la Vega (Banderas) — and his wife, Elena (Zeta-Jones) — to take action.

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as »The Basterds» are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.