I due superpiedi quasi piatti (1977)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Enzo Barboni

Writers:

Enzo Barboni (screenplay)
Enzo Barboni (story)

Release Date:

June 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Adventure | Crime

Tagline:

Hill and Spencer! They're a pair of car-crashing, womanizing, rough-housing loudmouths... and they're the good guys!

Plot:

An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.

Plot Keywords:

Sidecar | Poliziottesco | Hit In The Face | Motorbike | Policeman

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Terence Hill	...	Matt Kirby
Bud Spencer	...	Wilbur Walsh
David Huddleston	...	Capt. McBride
Luciano Catenacci	...	Fred 'Curly' Cline
Ezio Marano	...	Bloodsucker
Luciano Rossi	...	Geronimo
Luigi Casellato	...	Drugstore owner
Edy Biagetti	...	Lieutenant Governor
Jill Flanter	...	Countess Galina Kochilova
April Clough	...	Angie Crawford
Riccardo Pizzuti	...	Fred's henchman
Giancarlo Bastianoni
Claudio Ruffini
Roberto Messina
Rocco Lerro
Roberto Dell'Acqua		(as Roberto Del Acqua)
Giovanni Ukmar
Duilio Olmi
Laura Gemser	...	Susy Lee
Emilio Delle Piane	...	Pierre, Fred's waiter
Giovanni Cianfriglia
Fortunato Arena
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ottaviano Dell'Acqua	...	Geronimo' s Man
Alex Edlin	...	Puncher in football stadium (uncredited)
Osiride Pevarello	...	Circus Man (uncredited)

Directed by
Enzo Barboni		(as E.B. Clucher)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Enzo Barboni		screenplay (as E.B. Clutcher)
Enzo Barboni		story (as E.B. Clutcher)

Produced by
Vittorio Galiano	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Guido De Angelis
Maurizio De Angelis

Cinematography by
Claudio Cirillo

Film Editing by
Eugenio Alabiso

Production Design by
Enzo Bulgarelli

Costume Design by
Luciano Sagoni

Makeup Department
Fausto De Lisio	....	hair stylist
Luciano Giustini	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Vittorio Galiano	....	production manager
Maurizio Pastrovich	....	production manager
Marcello Torri	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Victor Tourjansky	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Angelo Amatulli	....	boom operator
Bruno Zanoli	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Oddone Bernardini	....	camera operator
Angelo Pennoni	....	still photographer
Maurizio Zampagni	....	assistant camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Maria Russo	....	seamstress

Editorial Department
Marcello Cannone	....	assistant editor
Mario D'Ambrosio	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Dandylion	....	composer: song "Angel and Beans"
Bud Spencer	....	composer: song "Angel and Beans" (as Carlo Pedersoli)

Other crew
Lamberto Andreani	....	production secretary
Achille Petroni	....	administrator
Maria Luisa Rosen	....	script supervisor
Giorgio Ubaldi	....	master of arms
Pino Locchi	....	voice dubbing: Terence Hill (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Tritone Cinematografica
• T.O.T.A.

Distributors

• United Artists (1979) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• MV_Movies (200?) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Millennium Storm (2004) (Italy) (DVD)
• Somerville House (2007) (Canada) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (1998) (USA) (VHS)
• e-m-s the DVD-Company (2003) (Germany) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Crime Busters (USA)
Trinity: In Trouble Again (USA)
Two Supercops

Runtime:

115 min | USA:98 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Norway:16 (1978) | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (cut) | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Norway:11 (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

Miami, Florida, USA

Company:

Tritone Cinematografica

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Matt Kirby is hitting bad guys with two bowling pins, the pins bend as they hit, showing that they are rubber.

Quotes:

Matt Kirby: You know pal, we've got a lot in common... I'm Matt Kirby.
Wilbur Walsh: I'm not.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in La balance (1982)

Hill and Spencer again, now as policeman in the sunny Florida

Our friends(Hill and Spencer), now sea-workers but without employment decide realize a hold up,but they finish attempting heist a precinct. It goes wrong and then they enlist as policemen under the orders of a stiff police chief(David Huddleston).Meanwhile they will confront against a villain gangster and help to a gorgeous Oriental girl(Laura Gemser).

The formula of Spaghetti western with humor as ¨they call me Trinity¨and ¨Trinity is is still my name¨,one time run out is transfered at other sub-genres as far adventures, action or police-action.Thus, the comedy and laughters are varied and the chuckles are based about diverse personalities and physical differences of the starring.Terence Hill is likable,hilarious and agreeable;Bud Spencer is his bouncing,muscular pal and although he's always angry is with nice feeling. The comedy is narrated through numerous struggles developed in a Bar(where Hill simulate to be a cripple and Spencer a deaf-mute),in a Stadium and a Bowl.Fights are light by means of punch and bound and leaps with no blood neither gore.The argument film is plain and simple although sometimes is absurd and ridiculous but has its moments here and there.Plus appears the attractive Laura Gemser(Black Enmmanuel). This movie along with ¨Miami supercops¨and ¨Superfuzz¨belongs to the trilogy which both made in Miami as policemen and directed by brothers Sergio and Bruno Corbucci,besides the score music were by Guido and Mauricio de Angelis and the Bionda.The motion picture is regularly directed by Enzo Barboni or E.B.Clucher,the same of Trinity series. Rating : average but entertained.