Après avoir voler l'or de la banque d'El Paso, Cat Stevens et Hutch Bessy prennent la fuit. Malheureusement pour eux, le brigand Cacopoulos, à la demande du directeur de la banque, se lance ... Tout lireAprès avoir voler l'or de la banque d'El Paso, Cat Stevens et Hutch Bessy prennent la fuit. Malheureusement pour eux, le brigand Cacopoulos, à la demande du directeur de la banque, se lance à leur poursuite pour récupérer le butin...Après avoir voler l'or de la banque d'El Paso, Cat Stevens et Hutch Bessy prennent la fuit. Malheureusement pour eux, le brigand Cacopoulos, à la demande du directeur de la banque, se lance à leur poursuite pour récupérer le butin...
- Drake
- (as Kevin Mc Carthy)
- Harold
- (as Stephen Zacharias)
- Drake's blond henchman
- (as Rick Boyd)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe second teaming of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.
- GaffesWhen Hutch lifts the hat off of a corpse, the corpse's actor is clearly breathing.
- Citations
Hutch Bessy: Cacopoulos. What kind of a name is that?
Cacopoulos: A Greek name. My grandfather was a Greek. He was a Greek, like Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, Homer.
[He looks around and notices the guards getting tired, so he shifts his tone to a softer, sweeter one]
Cacopoulos: And like Ulysses, he had to keep traveling. He never suffered from homesickness, my grandfather. Oh no. And so, he left the schooner on which he had embarked, and continued his travels on foot, bouncing from place to place, trading in skins, until he came to a Cherokee tribe. And there he was admired by an Indian girl, or he admired her, I don't know which. But the fact is, among other children, my father too was born. And he grew up and raised a family in a small mining town. And he had just the time to do it... when someone shot him dead. And my grandfather told of it, had to get his son's body... and he had to take me, too, still teething... back to his tribe. And I cried... And I cried... And I cried...
- Versions alternativesThe Italian uncut version is 132 minutes long. The US version is 122 minutes. Other international versions are 117-118 minutes.
- ConnexionsEdited into Spaghetti Western Trailer Show (2007)
Screened under the main English title of Ace High, I recorded this film on late night TV hoping for a typical spaghetti western. While that is pretty much what I got, I must confess to being a bit put off by how silly it was at times. I know it was meant to be a comedy of sorts but it didn't sit very well with the spaghetti western genre because it made aspects of that feel like they had been badly done, as opposed to done for laughs. The plot is solid enough but the running time is too long for the material to sustain, making many scenes feel dragged out beyond their intended time. The action (as in movement generally) also suffers because of this perceived slow pace.
The cast are suitable for the genre, but this is not the same as being any good. Eli Wallach has fun in the central role and his performance is good value. I couldn't shake the feeling that Hill had borrowed his performance from many other actors but hadn't been sure how to make it work for him; he didn't really have the screen presence required to carry off the character. Spencer is better in terms of presence but his performance is a bit wanting. The support cast are all so-so, which works within the genre and as always much of the dialogue has that strange bad ADR/bad dubbing feel to it that I think is a prerequisite for the spaghetti genre.
Overall this is an enjoyable enough spaghetti western but if you only know the Eastwood, "Fist Full" or Leone spaghetti films then you'll probably come away thinking this is a low-rent version of those (which I suppose it is). With all the trademarks and weaknesses of the genre, this one will most likely please fans but probably not the casual viewer.
- bob the moo
- 3 août 2006
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Détails
- Durée2 heures 12 minutes
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 2.35 : 1