It Can Be Done Amigo (1972)

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

Director:

Maurizio Lucidi

Writers:

Ernesto Gastaldi (story), Rafael Azcona (screenplay)

Stars:

Bud Spencer, Jack Palance, Renato Cestiè

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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)

Storyline

An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.

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Plot Keywords:

slapstick comedy | italo western | whiskey | boy | drifter | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Western

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

Italy France Spain

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

November 1974 (USA)

Also Known As:

It Can Be Done Amigo

Filming Locations:

Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Atlántida Films, Les Productions Jacques Roitfeld, Sancrosiap

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The prostitute Coburn goes to see is called La Vedova Warren. George Bernard Shaw, the British playwright wrote a famous play about a prostitute called Mrs Warren's Profession.

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Quotes

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

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Connections

Featured in Western Outlaws: 50 Movie MegaPack (2016)

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Soundtracks

Can Be Done
Written by Sergio Bardotti (as Bardotti) and Luis Bacalov (as Enriquez)
Sung by Rocky Roberts

User Reviews

Parody Spaghetti Western co-produced by Italy/Spain with lots of brawls and shootings

This is a funny spoof about several Spaghetti clichés with relentless comedy and parodying usual Western events that sometimes becomes stale . This is a good entertaining juvenile for Bud Spencer fans , as he's delightful in a fraternal story . It packs action, fist-play, sniping, slapdash , humor with tongue-and-cheek and is quite amusing . It deals with Coburn (Bud Spencer or Carlo Perdesoli) an insouciant , bumbling drifter who breaks out from prison and attempts to right wrongs . He embarks on his getaway and he gets stuck a ten years old little boy (Renato) . The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house , useless land to the child but is actually plenty of petroleum that is coveted by a priest-sheriff-judge (Francisco Rabal) and his hoodlums (Salvatore Borghese , Riccardo Pizzuti) . Hiram Coburn oblivious to risks and hopeless odds endure mishaps adventures and he join forces with the child to rout nasty gunmen . Meanwhile, the gunfighter Sonny Bronston (Jack Palance) going out the chase of Coburn to marry his sister (Dany Saval) and the baddies want to take the rich lands.

This release has some cool and several hilarious moments , though the Terence Hill-Bud Spencer duo films are much better , such as ¨They call me trinity¨, ¨Trinity is still my name¨ and ¨Truoblemakers¨ . Good for laughs as well as lots of shootouts and fist-play . The film isn't always good , sometimes is fresh and diverting and on a couple of memorable occasions , it's frankly delicious . The flick belong to the sub-genre that Bud Spencer played in which he has as partners some sympathetic children , as ¨Supersheriff¨, ¨Banana Joe¨, ¨Flatfoot¨ and ¨Aladdin¨. The film displays a wide plethora of secondary actors usually seen in Spaghetti genre as Sal Borghese , Luciano Pigozzi or Alan Collins , Robert Camardiel as an old drunk and Ricardo Pizzuti , the latter usual in Hill-Spencer flicks . The movie displays innumerable jokes , laughter , and slapstick , though relies heavily about the continuous relationship between the tired gunslinger and the orphaned boy . Enjoyable but silly screenplay Ernesto Gastaldi and Rafael Azcona . Catching musical score with noisy songs by Luis Enrique Bacalov who subsequently would win Oscar for ¨The postman¨ . This motion picture was professionally directed by Maurizio Luzidi . Although Maurizio couldn't be deemed an "A"-list director, his movies had a professionalism and a verve that many of those made by his fellow B directors lacked . He was a fine editor and also filmed detective thrillers , Giallo , comedy and even a horror film or two . He directed two Western more as ¨La grand Rapina del West¨ with George Hilton and Jack Betts and ¨Pecos¨ with Robert Woods , and even made films with international cast as ¨Sweet people¨ with Roger Moore and Stacy Keach and ¨The last chance¨ with Elli Wallach and Ursula Andress . His greatest conquest was the edition of ¨Don Quijote¨ by Orson Welles . Rating : 5,5 . Acceptable , passable but average . It is a middling Western story in which gibing the Spaghetti genre , plenty of fights and shoot'em up . As the director Mauricio Lucidi is uninspired and the ending is pretty predictable .