Alive or Preferably Dead (1969)

Two brothers, Monty and Ted, will inherit $300,000 if they manage to live together for six months.

Director:

Duccio Tessari

Writers:

Ennio Flaiano (story), Giorgio Salvioni

Stars:

Giuliano Gemma, Nino Benvenuti, Cris Huerta

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Giuliano Gemma	...	Monty Mulligan
Nino Benvenuti	...	Ted Mulligan
Cris Huerta	...	James 'Bad Jim' Williams
Antonio Casas	...	Mr. Barnes
Julio Peña	...	Doctor
George Rigaud	...	Mr. Scott
Arturo Pallandino	...	(as Arturo Palladino)
Brizio Montinaro
Sydne Rome	...	Rossella Scott

Storyline

Two brothers, Monty and Ted, will inherit $300,000 if they manage to live together for six months.

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Plot Keywords:

gun duel | street fight | street shootout | gun shot out of hand | opening action scene | 

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Taglines:

Booze, Banks & Broads! They Had Their Hands in Everything!

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Western

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

Italy Spain

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

17 September 1969 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Alive or Preferably Dead

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà, Roma, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ultra Film,Ultra Film,Compagnia Generale Finanziaria Cinematografica

Technical Specs

Runtime:

103 min 84 min (VHS)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The U.S. dubbed version, Alive or preferably dead, was promoted as "Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid", a rip-off of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and the director and top actors were billed with English names re-sounding those of American the same film: Giuliano Gemma as John Wade; Nino Benvenuti as Robert Neuman; Sydne Rome as Karen Blake; director Duccio Tessari as Arthur Pitt.

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Quotes

Rossella Scott: [to a sweaty, bare-chested Ted Mulligan] The way you swing that ax does all sorts of funny things to me.

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Soundtracks

Monty and Ted
(ballad)
Sung by John Ireson and Wayne Parham as The Wilder Brothers

User Reviews

Another bad Spaghetti Western-Comedy

This film is also known as Sundance and the Kid in the U.S. release. Starting as early as the 1970's most Euro-Westerns started going downhill in quality and budget. So Italian producers started combining the usually dramatic Spaghetti Westerns with comedy and later in 1970's with martial arts! This film, Sundance and the Kid, is just plain awful in everything from the acting to the screenplay. This turkey was cranked out to compete with the more original Spaghetti Western comedies with Italian actors Bud Spencer and Terence Hill such as Boot Hill, They Call Me Trinity, Trinity is Still My Name..etc. and also perhaps to certain extent the quality U.S. film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Robert Redford and Paul Newman which is recommended if you want to see a quality made comedy-western.

Ironically, in my opinion, Italian directors made the very best westerns and the very worst westerns. On most all these Spaghetti Western-Comedies everything from the title of the movie to the names of the Italian actors, directors and sometimes even the production crew would change their names to American names and add awful English dubbing all designed to sound more American so it would sell better. In Spaghetti Westerns everything in fact is made in Italy but to make $$$ they had to make it look like an American made western as much as possible...but sometimes failed miserably as in this movie.