Ace High (1968 film)
- Terence Hill: Cat Stevens
- Bud Spencer: Hutch Bessy
- Eli Wallach: Cacopoulos
- Brock Peters: Thomas
- Kevin McCarthy: Drake
- Steffen Zacharias: Mr. Harold
- Livio Lorenzon: Paco Rosa
- Tiffany Hoyveld: Thomas ' wife
- Remo Capitani: Cangaceiro
- Armando Bandini: Cashier
- Bruno Corazzari: Deputy Charlie
- Franco Gula: Al
- Dante Cleri: banker
Four for a Hail Mary (Original Title: I quattro dell ' Ave Maria ) is an Italo -Western- comedy from 1968.
Action
Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy feel cheated out of their share of the loot of a bank robbery. With positive they do, when one of the backers, the bank manager Mr. Harold to have a check. Harold rushes them to the imprisoned bandit Cacopoulos on the heels, which he promises freedom for the recovery of money. Caco but retaliates first to Harold for which he was sitting 15 years in prison.
Caco followed Stevens and Bessy, hunts from both the money and loses it in a saloon in Mississippi in the wrong play. As Stevens and Bessy meet him again, he works his gambling debts from washing dishes. The three make common cause, outwit the wrong game system establishment and so come back to their money. After Caco has avenged the Saloon Head of Drake, he rides with Stevens and Bessy away.
Background
The film is the second part of a trilogy that will award with God ... we both never begins and ends with The Hills boots. When it was four for a Hail Mary because of the loose sayings (after the second synchronization 1977) so successful, the predecessor was then re-synchronized and brought into theaters a third time under the title Two bitten by monkeys.
The film has been released in the U.S. under the alternative title Ace High on DVD.
The opposite of the approximately 132 minutes long, the original Italian version already shortened and tested with FSK 18 German theatrical release in 1969 was followed by releases of the film for the German home video market. These were further reduced by action scenes and from 16 Years. Later television broadcasts preceded further cuts, and finally a release from 12.
Reviews
- " Derbe jokes for canned beer nights " ... " uncouth, but effective satire of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns " (TV movie )
- " An entertaining Italian Western with an episodic plot full Donquichotterien. The showdown is especially well staged, the script is often very funny, and Giuseppe Colizzi shows - albeit sporadically - a keen eye for details and moods " (Monthly Filmbulletin )
- "The best of the three most successful and original Western by Giuseppe Colizzi with a pleasant Carlo Rustichelli score " (Ulrich P. Bruckner )
- Joe Hembus notes with four for a Hail Mary showed the director and the lead actor of the Spaghetti Westerns his future as a fun western. The film waiting " constantly with exhilarating surprises ," Colizzi controlling "the art of preparing the audience to something terrible, and then enjoy it with some terrible comic "