Actress/Musician Samantha Shelton Stars In Music Video For 'The Man In The Big Sombrero'

New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Warner Bros. Records) - Actress/musician Samantha Shelton (House, Shop Girl, Judging Amy, and Gilmore Girls) stars in a new video for 'Man In The Big Sombrero,' directed by Merit Avis for the movie Inglourious Basterds. In the video, Shelton recreates the classic June Havoc performance taken from the 1940s comedy Hey Diddle Diddle. The song will also be featured on the soundtrack and in Inglourious Basterds, which hits theaters nationwide on August 21st.

Acclaimed writer and film director Quentin Tarantino and Warner Bros. Records are joining forces to release the original soundtrack to Tarantino's upcoming film Inglourious Basterds on August 18th. The film was screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, where Christoph Waltz took home the Best Actor prize. Tarantino recently told the New York Times: 'This ain't your daddy's World War II movie.' Inglourious Basterds is set in the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Employing pulp and propaganda in equal measure, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds weaves together the infamous, oppressed, real, and larger-than-life stories of WWII.