La vita, a volte, è molto dura, vero Provvidenza? (1972)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Giulio Petroni

Writers:

Franco Castellano (writer)
Günter Ebert (dialogue collaborator)

Release Date:

29 December 1972 (West Germany)

Genre:

Comedy | Western

Plot Keywords:

Spaghetti Western | Bounty Hunter

Cast

Tomas Milian	...	Provvidenza
Gregg Palmer	...	Hurricane Smith
Janet Agren	...	Stella
Maurice Poli	...	Sheriff Keensburg
Giovanni Cianfriglia	...	The Challenger (as Ken Wood)
Carla Mancini	...	Bathing Girl
Paul Muller	...	Mr. Summitt
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Artemio Antonini
Bruno Arié
Claude Berthy
Mike Bongiorno	...	Mike Goodmorning
Stelio Candelli	...	Col. Arthur James
Omero Capanna	...	James Henchman
Enrico Chiappafreddo
Domenico Cianfriglia
Arnaldo Dell'Acqua	...	James Henchman
Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
Roberto Dell'Acqua	...	James Henchman
Dieter Eppler	...	Sheriff Howard Pendleton
Paolo Figlia
Gilberto Galimberti	...	The Challenger's henchman
Gabriella Giorgelli	...	Sister
Luigi Antonio Guerra	...	(credit only)
Horst Janson	...	Sheriff Villaggio
Emilio Laguna
Rocco Lerro
Renzo Marignano	...	The Priest
Osiride Pevarello	...	James Henchman
Renzo Pevarello
Hans Terofal	...	Horatius Timothy
Bruno Ukmar	...	James Henchman
Franco Ukmar	...	James Henchman
Marcello Verziera

Also Known As:

Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (USA)
Mausefalle für zwei schräge Vögel (West Germany)
On m'appelle Providence (France)
Providenza - Mausefalle für zwei schräge Vögel (West Germany)
Sometimes Life Is Hard - Right, Providence?
Zwei schaffen alle (West Germany)

Runtime:

Germany:100 min | France:90 min

Country:

Italy | France | West Germany

Language:

Italian | German

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:12 (nf) (w)

Company:

Oceania Produzioni Internazionali Cinematografiche

Movie Connections:

Followed by Ci risiamo, vero Provvidenza? (1973)

They call me............ confused

It is fair to say that Tomas Milan is one of the all time great Spaghetti Western stars (grasping frantically at the poncho of Eastwood, Cleef and Nero). And it is in such good faith that I got my hands on a copy of this movie.

And after watching it, it is fair to say that you could call me confused! Sometimes shockingly bad, othertimes really great fun, I couldn't make up my mind whether it had been 90 minutes well spent or an evening wasted. I think I'll opt for well spent. Just.

Certainly, it is not your average spaghetti western, with Milan a Charlie Chaplin-esq bounty hunter, with a bungling "chunky" sidekick. The character play is a passenger on the Trinity bandwagon, but with an even greater level of stupidity. The Big Gundown it certainly isn't! Nor is it in any way reminiscent of Director Petroni's classic Death Rides a Horse.

The story is not so much one story, as a number of episodes with a very loose link. Thankfully, the strong cast pulls it off, and although I nearly pressed eject several times I did see it through to the end. And was it worth it? Hmmmmm, I just can't seem to make up my mind. But I bet I watch the sequel!