Brothers Blue

• Guido Mannari: Johnny Blue
• Tina Aumont: Polly Clay
• Jack Palance: Captain Hillman
• Antonio Falsi: Kane Blue
• Maurizio Bonuglia: Frank Blue
• Paul Jabara: Teddy Fog
• Guido Lollobrigida: Sheriff (as Lee Burton)
• Clara Mutschaewski: Jenny
• Maria Michi: Mama Blue
• Carla Wittig: Alice (as Clara Russell)

Blu gear ( full title: Blu gear vissero per semper felici e ammazzati ) is a spaghetti western from the late phase of the genre, which is characterized by an unusual form. The film directed by Luigi Bazzoni received no performance in Germany.

Action

The Blue Brothers - Cane, Johnny and Frank - try the free and unrestricted life they lead, to be secured with ripoffs of smaller and larger type. For this life are not fixed relationship with the girls they meet. After a major heist they are put on silent army officer Hillman into prison, from which they can but escaped with the help of a little girl. From pulling place to place, the brothers continue to worry only about today. Hillman ineptly one after the other.

Criticism

" Quite obviously, Butch Cassidy the model, and also a Brechtian ballad here is the form of a film been missed: In English with subtitles is explained to us that the brothers have become only in response to the high-handedness of capitalism bandits. (...) The ingenuity of the images and spontaneous wit of the script are in contrast with the many scenes of absolute ordinariness and the crude choice of words that are presented to us. "

Comments

• Jack Palance, who plays Hillman has to speak only two brief sentences in the entire film.

• The soundtrack was in 1974 awarded the Nastro d' Argento for the best film music. The song Go Man is interpreted by Marva Marrow January.