The film was a moderate box office success in Italy but not as much as its predecessor. Actor Paolo Villaggio attributed this at least in part to bad sound/dialogue editing.
Award: Grand Prix de l'Humour au Festival de Chamrousse 1977
Death is played by an unrecognizable Gigi Proietti, a popular Italian actor and comedian who voiced the Italian versions of, among others, the titular character in Rocky (1976), the Genie in Aladdin (1992) and Gandalf in the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies.
Italian censorship visa # 56388 delivered on 22-12-1970.
At 1:46:46 Brancaleone has a red handkerchief on his left hand which disappears a second later.