Fun Facts About The Classic The Sleuths by Bud Spencer and Terence Hill
The Outlaws (original title: I do superpiedi quasi piatti) is an Italian comedy series that premiered in 1977, starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill. The film was written and directed by EB Clucher, with music by Guido and Maurizio de Angelis. It was shown in cinemas in Italy on 6 April 1977 and in Hungary on 20 June 1989.
1. After the incredible success of The Devil’s Right and Left Hand, Barboni came up with a lot of new ideas and both viewers and filmmakers agreed that the duo should continue with new films. By 1976, the demand for Western spaghetti was gone, so another genre was experimented with, although Bünvadászok did not completely deviate from the Western style. Barboni also says that police in major American cities are like cowboys: they have guns and fight for justice, as is customary in the American West. On the other hand, Bünvadászok carries the clichés of Western Italy, as the two main characters become policemen against their will and try to get rich quick and retire quickly.
2. He won the Golden Screen for Crime Hunters award in 1978.10 surprising interesting facts about the movie “Bündászok”
3. The film was made relatively far from Italy, in Miami, USA. Filming in Europe will be much more expensive because then the sets will have to be set up separately. At the time, the construction of sets for western spaghetti also cost a lot of money in Italy and Spain, but because of this genre was also considered an American competitor, among other things. , so at that point it wouldn’t be appropriate. travel to the US to film westerns, where the genre has begun to fade
4. The stadium where they fought Geronimo’s gang is the Miami Orange Bowl Stadium.
5. Italian film crews in the states applied for a filming permit, but the police were not notified. In one of the scenes where Hill and Spencer were racing through Miami in a police car, with guns at their side, he quickly made it clear to the people there that they weren’t real cops, so they Call the police around. Then, Spencer told his partner to get out quickly and put his hand on the hood of the car until the police arrived. When the police left, they immediately cleared up the misunderstanding.
6. Bud Spencer told me in 2002 that Hill works very precisely, it’s almost his obsession, while he does everything by instinct, so they had little disagreements. , although this never broke their friendship. Small conflicts quickly subsided, because the pair were happy to be able to work together, namely under the guidance of Barboni, who knew their sense of humour best.
7. Although the movie was mainly shot in the US, they went back to Italy to shoot an inside scene. The bowling alley wrestling was also filmed in Rome over seven days. During filming, Hill suffered a minor head injury so filming had to stop for a while.
8. The performances of several supporting characters also deserve special attention: among them is Ezio Marano from Lombardy, who also appeared in The Devil’s Right and Left Hand. in the film, playing the role of Ferret. The highlight of Marano’s acting career was the theater, where he played fragile, withdrawn characters. His involvement in westerns and action comedies as a negative character can be called a frantic search for diversity in the Italian filmmaking process. In the film, Marano plays the gang leader of thugs brandishing a pistol, but one slap from Spencer is enough for him to knock him down for good and not participate in the fight anymore. All of this is a caricature of the sensitive personality that Marano portrays so well elsewhere.
9. The movie “Bünvadászok” was filmed in 1976 but was only shown in the US around 1979/1980 and was also 17 minutes shorter.
10. The movie has three English titles: “Crime Busters”, “Trinity: In Trouble Again” and “Two Supercops”.