Si può fare... amigo (1972)

Director:

Maurizio Lucidi

Writers:

Rafael Azcona (screenplay)
Ernesto Gastaldi (story)

Release Date:

November 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Western | Comedy

Plot:

A drifter with fast fists and a gunfighter- pimp with fast guns help a child to claim his inheritance.

Plot Keywords:

Brawl | Fly | Henchman | Seduction | Little Boy

Cast

Bud Spencer	...	Hiram Coburn
Jack Palance	...	Sonny Bronston
Renato Cestiè	...	Chip Anderson
Francisco Rabal	...	Franciscus
Dany Saval	...	Mary Bronston
Luciano Catenacci	...	James
Roberto Camardiel	...	L'udriaco
Franco Giacobini	...	L'uomo chi mangia la terra
Serena Michelotti	...	La vedova Warren
Manuel Guitián
Sal Borgese
Marcello Verziera		(as Margello Verziera)
Dominique Badou
Dante Cleri		(as Cleri Dante)
Luciano Pigozzi		(as Alan Collins)

Also Known As:

Amigo!... Mon colt a deux mots à te dire (France)
Bulldozer Is Back Amigo
Can Be Done, Amigo
En el Oeste se puede hacer... amigo (Spain)
It Can Be Done Amigo
Saddle Tramps (Canada: English title)
The Big and the Bad

Runtime:

Germany:85 min | Spain:100 min | Italy:109 min

Country:

Spain | Italy | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

UK:U (cut) (1973) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company:

Atlántida Films

Quotes:

[first lines]
Hiram Coburn: How the hell did I ever get stuck with a loser like you?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Avanti! (1972)

CAN BE DONE…AMIGO (Maurizio Lucidi, 1972) **1/2

One of Bud Spencer's star vehicles without his partner Terence Hill takes him back to familiar Spaghetti Western territory. Despite a good cast (Jack Palance, Francisco Rabal, Luciano Pigozzi) and crew (screenwriters Rafael Azcona and Ernesto Gastaldi, cinematographer Aldo Tonti and composer Luis Enriquez Bacalov), the film rambles amiably along without ever becoming sufficiently memorable.

Spencer seduces Palance's virginal sister (having mistook her in the dark for another dance-hall girl) and flees from her pursuing pistolero/showman brother until he meets an abandoned child in the desert whom he takes under his wing (shades of two films Bud would later make with CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND [1977]'s Cary Guffey); as it turns out, the boy is the proprietor of a dilapidated wellspring which turns out to be rich in oil but they soon fall foul of outwardly harmless sheriff/judge/preacher Rabal. Spencer indulges himself in several of his typical fist-fights and even "Paco" Rabal gets to taste his trademark hammer-blow to the head; amusingly, he puts on his glasses before a fight so that he can think more clearly! Palance scores best as Spencer's laid-back, black-clad, pursuer-cum-partner and brother-in-law to-be. The title song is an agreeable one although it's only played during the opening and closing credits sequences.

I have missed out on this one several times on Italian TV over the years but I did catch the free-for-all finale once; since the quality of the DVD I watched was quite terrible – not just pan-and-scanned but extremely washed out as to lapse into practically black and white at various points!; although it was nice to hear Palance and Rabal's own voices in English, I'll make it a point to tape this one when it's shown again on one of the major Italian TV channels.