'Inglourious Basterds' is the correct spelling of the film in question. It's deliberately misspelt, presumably to avoid copyright issues with another film of the same name.

I typically count beginning from my left thumb down to my left pinkie, then down again from my right thumb.

However, I am a fan of the ancient Mesopotamian method, which involved counting the phalanges (finger bones). A hand has 12 phalanges (excluding those of the thumb). You can go on to count up to 60 by keeping track of your dozens using the fingers (including the thumb) of your other hand. If you remember which hand you started with, you can then count up to 120 by changing the hands around.

Adapting this further, if you are standing, when you get to 120 you could change your hands back around and start balancing on your left leg. At 240, you could do the same but on your right leg. At 360, go back to your left leg and start hopping. At 480, start hopping on your right leg. That will bring you up to 600, at which point you need do a headstand...

In India, we start counting from right hand thumb by touching it with every other fingers.

@Kai E, thank you so much Kai E for your nice comment. Wow that method is very interesting :)

About the spelling of the film, yes it seems it was an Italian war movie, made in 1978 with the same name, so they changed the spelling of this one.

I was watching "Inglourious Bastards" movie and this different way of counting on fingers, played an important role in one scene. So I started to research about finger-counting around the world.

In my country, Iran, we usually start counting with on the right hand. We count by touching the finger to the thumb, starting with the little finger. Sometimes we count with a closed fist and starting with the little finger again.

I'd like to know more about finger-counting in different countries. How do you count on your fingers?

@Akeep, thank you for your comment.