Vamos a matar, compañeros (1970)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Sergio Corbucci

Writers:

Sergio Corbucci (screenplay)
Sergio Corbucci (story)
(more)

Release Date:

April 1972 (USA)

Genre:

Western | Comedy

Tagline:

Fate brought them together. Greed made them inseparable, and violence made them Companeros!

Plot:

Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe...

Plot Keywords:

Political | Female Nudity | Nudity | Zapata Western | Train

Cast

Franco Nero	...	Yodlaf Peterson
Tomas Milian	...	El Vasco
Jack Palance	...	John
Fernando Rey	...	Prof. Xantos
Iris Berben	...	Lola
José Bódalo	...	Gen. Mongo (as Francisco Bódalo)
Eduardo Fajardo	...	Colonel (as Edoardo Fajardo)
Karin Schubert	...	Zaira
Gino Pernice	...	Tourneur (as Luigi Pernice)
Álvaro de Luna
Jesús Fernández
Claudio Scarchilli
Lorenzo Robledo	...	Man dancing with Zaira
Giovanni Petrucci		(as Giovanni Petti)
Gérard Tichy	...	Lieutenant
Gianni Pulone		(as Giovanni Pulone)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ramón Fernández Tejela
Simón Arriaga	...	(uncredited)
Tito García	...	Pepito Tigrero (uncredited)
Víctor Israel	...	Rosenbloom henchman with brown suit (uncredited)
Vicente Roca	...	Rosenbloom henchman with tropical hat (uncredited)

Directed by
Sergio Corbucci

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Sergio Corbucci		screenplay
Sergio Corbucci		story
Massimo De Rita		writer
Fritz Ebert		writer
José Frade		dialogue
Arduino Maiuri		writer (as Dino Maiuri)

Produced by
Antonio Morelli	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Ennio Morricone

Cinematography by
Alejandro Ulloa

Film Editing by
Eugenio Alabiso

Production Design by
Adolfo Cofiño

Costume Design by
Jürgen Henze

Makeup Department
Giuseppe Capogrosso	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Maria Alabasio	....	unit manager
Enrique Bellot	....	unit manager
Norberto Soliño	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sabatino Ciuffini	....	assistant director
Ricardo Huertas	....	assistant director
Manfred R. Köhler	....	assistant director (as Manfred Köhler)

Sound Department
Nick Alexander	....	dubbing engineer
Antonio Forrest	....	sound engineer

Camera and Electrical Department
Giovanni Bergamini	....	camera operator
Ruggero Radicchi	....	assistant camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Osanna Guardini	....	wardrobe assistant

Editorial Department
Giuseppe Romano	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Bruno Nicolai	....	conductor

Other crew
Lamberto Andreani	....	production coordinator
Francisco Bellot	....	production coordinator (as Paco Bellot)

Production Companies

• Atlántida Films
• Terra-Filmkunst
• Tritone Cinematografica

Distributors

• Atlántida Films (1970) (Spain) (theatrical)
• GSF (1972) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Constantin Film (1971) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (USA) (DVD)
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (USA) (VHS)
• Argentina Video Home (2009) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Astro Distribution (2005) (Germany) (DVD)
• Reserva Especial (Brazil) (VHS)
• Terra-Filmkunst (2005) (Germany) (all media)

Also Known As:

Companeros (USA)
Laßt uns töten, Companeros (West Germany)
Los compañeros (Spain)
Zwei Compañeros (West Germany)

Runtime:

118 min | Spain:110 min | Germany:115 min

Country:

Spain | Italy | West Germany

Language:

Italian | English | Spanish

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 (cut) (1971) | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (2005) | West Germany:18 (nf) | Singapore:NC-16 | Norway:16 (1970) | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) (1995) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company:

Atlántida Films

Trivia:

At one point, Tomas Milian is seen dragging a coffin out of a graveyard. This is a reference to Sergio Corbucci and Franco Nero's previous collaboration Django (1966) in which the title character drags a coffin behind him.

Quotes:

Yolof Peterson: If you ever come to Sweden, I'll let you meet my sister.
El Vasco: [singing] Beautiful eyes, just like the sky... just like your sister, huh?

Movie Connections:

Remake of Il mercenario (1968)

A wonderful film.

A year or so ago, i bought a large plasma TV and soon discovered Westerns look fantastic on these screens. I rediscovered spaghetti westerns and didn't realise there were so many. I have scoured the earth to find rarities and have seen most of them over the past year. In my opinion this is one of the best. It is beautifully shot, well acted and very pacy, and of course the music is the icing on the cake. The ending is brilliant. It is unusual to find a film with such inspired comedy and action having such a moving and stirring finale.

After the Leone westerns this is the best. The thing that struck me was that whether a film is well known is due to a product of marketing rather than quality, as I had never heard of this film. I presume it was never widely distributed in the states as it was looked down on as another 'eurowestern' as the dollars films were.