Dollaro di fifa, Un

Un dollaro di fifa (Italy 1960 / Director: Giorgio Simonelli)

Also known as

Dos valientes a la fuerza (Spain) | A Dollar of Funk | A Dollar of Fear | Um Dólar De Medo / Xerifes De Araque (Brazil)

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Synopsis

Two conmen, Alamo and Mike, find shelter in Paradise City, which is full of jokers like themselves, who assume them to be lawmen. However, the two manage to get into trouble anyway and are almost hanged.

Credits

• Cast (Italian opening credits): Ugo Tognazzi (Alamo), Walter Chiari (Mike), Mario Carotenuto (sheriff), Hélène Chanel (Alice Perkins), Leonora Ruffo (Sara Perkins), Dominique Boschero (Sherry), Aroldo Tieri (mayor), Arturo Dominici (Spiritual), Renzo Palmer (Smile), Mimmo Poli, Renato Mambor (Hurricane), Nando Angelini, Bruno Pagliani, Giorgio Cerioni, Nino Musco, Giorgio Zuccaro, Ignazio Balsamo (poker player), Gina Mascetti (Native American woman), Manlio Salvatori [misspelled as Salvatore] (Native American chief), Giovanni Vari (townsman O’Brien)

• Story: Mario Guerra
• Screenplay: Mario Guerra, Giulio Scarnicci, Renzo Tarabusi
• Cinematography: Clemente Santoni (as Tino Santoni) [Eastmancolor – widescreen]
• Music: Gianni Ferrio (as Giovanni Ferrio)
• Song: “Oh Cherie” sung by Claudio Villa
• Production: Emo Bistolfi, Renato Tonini

Reviews

• Film review by Simon Gelten

Trivia

• The film’s title, meaning “a dollar of fear,” is a spoof on Un dollaro di onore (“a dollar of honor”), the Italian title of Howard Hawks’s Rio Bravo (1959).

Versions and runtimes

• Runtime: approx. 90 min

Release dates

• August 28, 1960 (Italy)
• January 23, 1970 (Spain)

Filming locations

• Cinecittà Studios, Rome, Italy

External links

• Archivio del cinema italiano dell’ANICA (Italian)
• Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales: Catálogo de Cine Español (English/Spanish)
• Western Maniac : western européen et cinéma de genre (French)

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