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Lo chiamavano Bulldozer

  • 1978
  • 1h 55m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
6.3K
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Bud Spencer in Lo chiamavano Bulldozer (1978)
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After his fishing boat is "periscoped", ex US footballer Bulldozer docks in an Italian port, where local criminals and American soldiers fight each other. Locals discover Bulldozer's talents... Read allAfter his fishing boat is "periscoped", ex US footballer Bulldozer docks in an Italian port, where local criminals and American soldiers fight each other. Locals discover Bulldozer's talents and challenge the Yanks to a football game.After his fishing boat is "periscoped", ex US footballer Bulldozer docks in an Italian port, where local criminals and American soldiers fight each other. Locals discover Bulldozer's talents and challenge the Yanks to a football game.

  • Director
    • Michele Lupo
  • Writers
    • Marcello Fondato
    • Francesco Scardamaglia
    • Rainer Brandt
  • Stars
    • Bud Spencer
    • Raimund Harmstorf
    • Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    6.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Michele Lupo
    • Writers
      • Marcello Fondato
      • Francesco Scardamaglia
      • Rainer Brandt
    • Stars
      • Bud Spencer
      • Raimund Harmstorf
      • Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
    • 7User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins total

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    Bud Spencer
    Bud Spencer
    • Bulldozer
    Raimund Harmstorf
    Raimund Harmstorf
    • Sergeant Kempfer
    Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
    Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
    • Gerry
    Nando Paone
    Nando Paone
    • Odd boy
    Enzo Santaniello
    • Red-haired boy
    Marco Stefanelli
    • Tony
    Giovanni Vettorazzo
    • Spitz
    Reinhard Kolldehoff
    Reinhard Kolldehoff
    • Colonel Martin
    • (as René Kolldehoff)
    Joe Bugner
    Joe Bugner
    • Orso
    Luigi Bonos
    Luigi Bonos
    • Bulldozers pal, trying to build him a new motor drive
    • (as Gigi Bonos)
    Renato Chiantoni
    • Ozgur
    Piero Del Papa
    • Haircutter
    Totò Mignone
    • Father of Tony
    • (as Toto Mignone)
    Horst Weinert
      Gigi Reder
      Gigi Reder
      • Curatolo
      Artemio Antonini
      • Osvaldo's Thug #1
      • (uncredited)
      Fortunato Arena
      • Osvaldo's Thug #2
      • (uncredited)
      Giancarlo Bastianoni
      • Orso's Henchman #1
      • (uncredited)
      • Director
        • Michele Lupo
      • Writers
        • Marcello Fondato
        • Francesco Scardamaglia
        • Rainer Brandt
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      User reviews7

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      7kosmasp

      Italy goes Football

      But American Football, not the one that we call Football in Europe (which would be the one they call soccer in America). Now I very likely had seen this as a kid, like I did many other movies starring Bud Spencer (his not Italian name, I had no clue what nationality he was, since everything was dubbed in Germany) - many with his partner in crime Terence Hill (also not his Italian name). In this case the movie only stars Bud Spencer, but he is enough fun - no pun intended.

      The movie is quite the throwback to my childhood and was a nice watch overall, but I would understand if some felt it hasn't aged too well. Not much story, a lot of shenanigans and so forth. But the charisma of Bud really elevates this to a degree that should help most to just have fun with it.
      10murermarius

      Fantastic movie with Bud Spencer at his peak acting performance

      I think this movie is Bud Spencer's best. I've seen almost all he's been in. The fighting scene in the bar with the sugar on the omelette is probably his most iconic and best fighting acting ever.

      It has that old-time feel. It may come of as a bit cheesy and strange for some people. But to me, the genuinity, humor, stereotyping, the natural environments, the use of music .. everything is great in this one!

      As a humorous and sometime serious movie, it is highly recommended.
      5ma-cortes

      Again the corpulent Bud Spencer as a coach against experimented American players

      This time Bud Spencer is a fisherman whose ship crashes with a submarine . While he attempts to make reforms on his boat Spencer competing an arm-wrestling (such as ¨Stallone's Over the top¨) contest with an US Army sergeant (Raimund Harmstorf) . Colonel Martin (Reinhard Koldehoff ) commandant of the HQ ¨Headquarter Camp Durban US Army ¨assigns the sergeant to form the American football team to compete Italians . Then the former player called ¨Bulldozer¨ takes in charge of the training . As Bud trains an Italian botcher team and it all climaxes a Rugby championship between American soldiers and Latinos players . Both of them dressed in white ¨The Rangers¨ and blue ¨the visitors¨. When Spencer goes into the action he turns the score , playing like a Bulldozer.

      This amusing , engaging movie is crammed of fist-fights, overwhelming stunt-work and lots of humor. Bud Spencer is top notch as one army man confronting a group of American soldiers and as always he makes his own stunts with comic touches , as usual . The lighting-paced storyline slows down at times , but frantic fight's sequences make up for it . It's an amusing romp with brawls , including amusing bounds and leaps at a bakery . This is a nice entertaining juvenile for Bud Spencer fans , as he's delight . It packs action, fist-play, slapdash, humor with tongue-in-cheek and is quite bemusing . This release has some cool and several hilarious moments such as the continuous fights ; however the Terence Hill-Bud Spencer duo films are better . The film isn't always good , sometimes is fresh and diverting and on a couple of memorable occasions ,it's frankly delicious . The movie displays innumerable laughters , jokes and slapstick . In the picture appears usual secondaries from B Italian series seen in several genres as Spaghetti Western and Peplum as Nello Pazzafini , Fortunato Arena , Giovanni Cianfriglia ,Mike Morris, Roberto and Octaviano Dell'Acqua .Catching and commercial musical score by Guido and Mauricio De Angelis -Spaghetti Western's ordinaries- and composed by synthesizer, as usual . The motion picture written by Marcelo Fondato is middlingly directed by Michele Lupo . This is a passable entertaining juvenile that will appeal to Italian comedy buffs.

      In the 70s and 80s Bud Spencer starred various movies without Terence Hill , as he made three kind of films : 1ª he performed pictures with a little boy as partner as ¨Banana Joe ¨ , ¨Aladino¨and ¨The Supersheriff¨ ; 2ª about cop named Flatfoot or Rizzo, also called Piedone, such as, ¨Flatfoot , Flatfoot in Hong Kong, Flatfoot in Egypt , Flatfoot in Africa¨, furthermore the ¨Extralargo¨ series 3ª about diverse characters as a medieval knight as ¨Soldier of fortune¨ , a swindler as ¨Mr Charleston¨ or a fisherman , ex-player as ¨Bulldozer¨. Rating : Average only for Bud Spencer fans .
      ronaldferrand

      Bulldozer back story

      This is the non-fiction back story about the movie Bulldozer with Bud Spencer. I will attempt to ID rumor from fact . In 1977 a group of Italian Soccer and Rugby players formed an American style football sports team. I had heard it was formed by two former American GI's with sportsman drawn from the Milano and Bologna areas. They came to Tirrenia(IT) to play an exhibition game against the Darby Rangers at Camp Darby , a US Army installation close to Livorno ,Italy. Hammered by the experienced Darby Rangers the Italian team suffered many injuries but they would not give up.

      In 1978 an Italian film crew came to Tirrenia to film the movie with Bud Spencer. I can't say that the writer's intent was to do a story about the above event but I think it is too close for coincidence. The football scenes were shot at a local sports coop in Tirrenia. Many extras were drawn from the local US military community with soldiers that had played in the 1977 game taking leave to allow them to appear. I was on the Darby Ranger team in 1977 but did not play in that game. I recognized many of the GIs in the movie. I played the medic in the locker room scene and I was one in real life also working with the volunteer ambulance Misericordia Livorno.

      One day on the set when were shooting the football scenes one of the GI's had brought a Frisbee. We had Bud Spencer and many of the cast and crew throwing Frisbee. The director eventually pleaded with us to stop as we were slowing down his schedule. In the first take of the locker room scene Bud Spencer kicked the prop door off it's hinges!

      It took me many years to find clips of this movie on YouTube. I still haven't seen the full movie.

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      • Quotes

        [Bulldozer enters a bar]

        barkeeper: Hi. What do ya want, mate?

        Bulldozer: An omelette, please.

        barkeeper: With one or two eggs?

        [pause]

        Bulldozer: Twelve.

      • Alternate versions
        Almost 13 minutes of footage was cut from the German release. Missing are two longer sequences showing Bud Spencer beating up Joe Bugner. Only the Italian TV version is completely intact.
      • Connections
        Featured in Special Collector's Edition: Especial Scope (2010)
      • Soundtracks
        Bulldozer
        Performed by Oliver Onions

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      • Release date
        • October 5, 1978 (West Germany)
      • Countries of origin
        • Italy
        • West Germany
      • Languages
        • Italian
        • English
      • Also known as
        • Mož po imenu Buldožer
      • Filming locations
        • Marina di Pisa, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
      • Production companies
        • Leone Film Group
        • Rialto Film
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 55 minutes
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 2.35 : 1

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