Botte di Natale
From The Spaghetti Western Database
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Year: 1994
Director: Terence Hill
Alternate titles
The Fight Before Christmas (USA) | The Night Before Christmas (USA) | The Trouble Makers (USA)| Die Troublemaker (Germany) | Troublemakers (USA) | Mooses armahtaa, minä en (Finland) | En Nochebuena se armó el belén (Spain) | Caça-Sarilhos, Os (Portugal) | Bunyó karácsonyig (Hungary) | Petit papa baston (France)
Cast and crew
Bud Spencer, Terence hill, Neil Summers, Ruth Buzzi, Anne Kasprik, Eva Haßmann (as Eva Haßmann), Ron Carey, Fritz Sperberg, Radha Delamarter, Jonathan Tucker, Paloma von Broadley, Samantha Waidler, Kevin Barker, Brian Barker, Charlie Barker, Sarah Waidler, Lauren Myers, Natasha Goslow, Pilar O'Connel (as Pilar O'Connell), J.D. Garfield (as John David Garfield), Boots Southerland, Paul Ukena, Tom Eiden, Bo Greigh, Forrie J. Smith, Steven Gregory Tyler (as Steven G. Tyler), Jack Caffrey, Geoffrey C. Martin (as Geoffrey Martin), Lou Baker, Adam Taylor, Sommer Betsworth, Jerry Gardner, Jess Hill, Michael McCormick, Harriet Medin (as Harriet White), Patrick Myers, Tom Connor, J. Michael Oliva (as J. Michael 'Yak' Oliva), William P. Tazzie (as William P. Yazzie), Aviva (as Aviva Farber), Taunee Watson, Massimiliano Ubaldi, Michael Huddlesto (uncredited)
- Writing credits: Jess Hill
- Produced by: Willy Egger (executive producer), Giuseppe Pedersoli (producer), Günther Russ (executive producer), Matthias Wendlandt (producer)
- Original Music by: Pino Donaggio
- Cinematography by: Carlo Tafani
Synopsis
While their Maw frets about a Christmas family reunion, estranged bounty-hunter brothers Travis (Terence Hill) and Moses (Bud Spencer) sniff around the idea of re-teaming. Whereas Travis risks his life freeing desperadoes like Sam Stone from the hangman's noose to insure their gratitude as a future annuity, Moses divides his time between raising a large clan and rounding up outlaws in bunches. Mistrusting his goof-off brother, Moses is too tempted by a record-breaking reward not to accept Travis's assistance in tracking the very same Sam Stone. Mistaken for the bad guys when their plan to apprehend the Stone gang during a bank robbery backfires, Moses survives the gallows because of his enormous girth. Once out of police custody, the brothers are captured by Stone. Travis saves both their necks by reminding Stone of how he helped him elude capital punishment. The brothers finally make it to Maw's house. After Christmas dinner gets ruined by townsfolk itching for a rematch with the bounty-hunting brothers, the family pulls together to outsmart their uninvited guest, the greedy Stone, who's looking for a fortune that's purportedly hidden on their land. United in a common purpose, the family ties Stone up. In the end, the Brothers realize Maw made up the yarn about buried loot and that the true treasure is a loving home life.
DVD
- Italy, Medusa release
- Spain, Suevia films release
- Available in Germany from LP
