Troublemakers (film)

• Bud Spencer: Moses
• Terence Hill: Travis
• Boots Southerland: Sam Stone
• Radha Delamarter: Janie
• Anne Kasprik: Bridget
• Ruth Buzzi: Ma
• Neil Summers: Dodge
• Ron Carey: Sheriff Fox
• Fritz Sperberg: Deputy Joe
• Eva Hassman: Melle
• Jonathan Tucker: Moses junior

The Troublemaker ( Original title: Botte di Natale ) is a co-production between Italy and originated in Germany in 1994 Western comedy. In her earlier very successful duo Terence Hill and Bud Spencer is standing together in front of the camera again after about ten years. It's been their last collaboration.

Action

The Wild West in the late 19th century. Travis and Moses are two completely different bearing brothers. You are going for ten years out of the way, as any company that they teased together has failed. Travis is still unattached and battling his way through life as an artist and gambler, while it has brought Moses to now ten children and feeds his family as a bounty hunter.

Your mother is the way of life of their offspring an eyesore. Around Christmas time, she decides to invite the two to him. She hopes Travis and Moses retrieve on the right path of virtue - but also that the two hardliners finally tolerated. Claiming that his late father had left his sons a treasure, she thinks she can both attract the domestic hearth.

Travis then searches on Moses, who stay away from the parental home and also with his brother wants nothing more to do. With a trick Travis makes him together to hunt the gangster Stone, on which a reward of $ 4,000 is suspended. While the two work together Travis tried first in vain to persuade Moses to visit with their mother. Moses ' family does unbeknownst to him also on his way to his mother.

Different mishaps do not succeed the two brothers the arrest Stones. Instead, they are put in jail, but freed from the young women Bridget and Melle, which are set by Stone and his people under pressure. When the two brothers Stone have finally captured but Travis helps him escape.

Finally, Stone learns of the alleged treasure. Moses and Travis follow him to the house of her mother. There they find that the gangster was already overwhelmed. Together they celebrate Christmas. As Stones gang turns up the celebration ends in a brawl.

Criticism

" The attempt to revive the justified with the main actors Hill and Spencer genres of Klamaukwesterns; he fails at his unimaginative lazy, screenplay and his homespun images. "

Find out more

• The film was also the alternative name of "The F (n) ight before Christmas".
• Both Terence Hill and Bud Spencer brought their children with in production. As the author of the screenplay acted Hills son Jess, who also played a cameo role as a telegrapher. As one of the producers seemed Giuseppe Pedersoli, Spencer's son, with.
• The film is the last joint work of Hill and Spencer.
• The film was shot in New Mexico, USA.

DVD Release

The film was released on January 7, 2008 by UFA on DVD. Also on 24 February 2008, the film by Laser Paradise on DVD was released.