Interesting, God forgive me, I don’t! About the movie
God forgive me, I don’t! (original title in Italian: Dio perdona… Io no! , English: God Forgive, I don’t) is an Italian Western drama series released in 1967, also made with starring of the Spaniards, starring two legendary slapsticks, Bud Spencer and Terence Hill. In our article below, you can read some interesting facts about this movie, which is now becoming a classic and you may not have heard of it until now.
1) Crucially Bud Spencer and Terence Hill’s first joint film in which they appeared under the stage name (in the 1959 film Hannibal, they played a brief supporting role under the original name, with no common scenes).
2) Terence Hill got the role because another actor broke his leg. The character Cat Stevens was originally played by Peter Martell, who broke his leg just a week before filming. The accident was attributed to him being drunk, wanted to kick his wife but hit the wall.
3) In Hungary, the film is called Nils bocsánat and Bunyóúsvétig.
4) The movie “God Forgives, I Don’t” does not include the famous bloodless fight between Bud Spencer and Terence Hill. It was very different from the duo’s later comedies, and much more brutal: still without the bloodless slaps commonly seen later, but at the same time, scenes like torture with a hot iron, strangulation. In the well, throwing knives at the necks of enemies is also seen.
5) Although Bud Spencer and Terence Hill also star in the film, the main character is clearly the latter, who plays Cat Stevens. Bud Spencer was only written third in the cast after negative protagonist Frank Wolff.
6) In Germany, by cutting out more difficult scenes and incorporating dialogue into a humorous version, a comic book version was also created with the title Zwei vom Affen gebissen (‘Two biting monkeys’) ).
7) In this film, Giuseppe Colizzi worked with the famous duo for the first time.
8) God forgive me, I’m not the first of a three-part series. The film’s sequels are Revenge in El Paso and Who Die in their Boots.
9) Three dub versions were made in Hungary, the first was released on VHS in 1992, the second on TV2 on 23 April 2000 and the third on RTL Klub on July 1, 2002- aired on
10) When Bud Spencer was offered the role, he was asked “Does he have a beard? ” to which Bud Spencer said, “No, I shave every morning. “.