Noi non siamo angeli (1975)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Gianfranco Parolini

Writers:

Abronio Corti (writer)
Gianfranco Parolini (writer)

Release Date:

1976 (Austria)

Plot Keywords:

Odd Couple | Gang | Bomb | Car | Imitation

Cast

Paul L. Smith	...	Raphael McDonald (as Paul Smith)
John Ireland	...	Mr. Shark
Woody Strode	...	Black Bill
Evelin Kaye	...	Evelyn Sutton
Renato Cestiè	...	Willy
Fiona Florence	...	Linda Sutton
Franco Pesce	...	Prof. Berberg
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Artemio Antonini	...	Shark Gang Member
Fausta Avelli	...	Polly
John Bartha	...	Sheriff
Elio Bonadonna
Giovanni Bonadonna
Antonio Cantafora	...	Angel (as Micahel Coby)
Augusto Funari
Emilio Messina	...	Shark Gang Member
Roberto Messina	...	Boxing Referee
Teresa Rossi Passante
Maria Tedeschi
Max Turilli
Franco Ukmar	...	Shark Gang Member
Massimo Vanni

Also Known As:

We Are No Angels (Philippines: English title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:S

Company:

Flaminia Produzioni Cinematografiche

lovable, sloppy mess.

Just watched this baby tonight and its currently fresh in my mind, but slipping away fast so I wanted to record my thoughts. Bud Spencer/Terrence Hill wannabes rig a fight with a large black prize fighter to buy a car in a very lush, green Tuscan-looking Nevada. Their scheme is to compete in a downhill roadrace, the winner of which will get the right to a railroad transport contract, which will apparently make them rich. There are love interests, an infinitely running gag with a toilet, slapstick, lots of bopping of heads, anachronistic greasy mafioso thugs by the score, implications of pedophilia, inexplicable dubbing (probably lazy literal dubbing of Italian colloquialisms), fart humor, and about a hundred tangential story-lines and plot seasonings that make no sense whatsoever.

The score intercuts between hard-rockin 70's fuzzed out guitar and silent era ragtime slapstick score. Half of the camera angles look like they were intended to be shot in 3-D but weren't. There's a man with a steel head and boxing glove, some crazy out-of-the-blue racial slurs, and the whole mess ends with an old-west era hangglider vs. coach and buggy race.

Sure, it's an awful movie and a brazen theft of the Spencer/Hill franchise, but it was so incomprehensibly all over the place, I couldn't help but love it. - Tim League