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Lucky Luke

  • 19911991
  • PGPG
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
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Terence Hill in Lucky Luke (1991)
ComedyWestern
Lucky Luke becomes the Sheriff of Daisy Town and runs out all the criminals. Then the Dalton brothers arrive and try to get the Indians to break the peace treaty and attack the town.Lucky Luke becomes the Sheriff of Daisy Town and runs out all the criminals. Then the Dalton brothers arrive and try to get the Indians to break the peace treaty and attack the town.Lucky Luke becomes the Sheriff of Daisy Town and runs out all the criminals. Then the Dalton brothers arrive and try to get the Indians to break the peace treaty and attack the town.
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
4K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
23,255
1,037
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    • Director
      • Terence Hill
    • Writers
      • Morris(comic "Daisy Town")
      • René Goscinny(comic "Daisy Town")
      • Lori Hill(creator: TV show)
    • Stars
      • Terence Hill
      • Nancy Morgan
      • Roger Miller(voice)
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Terence Hill
    • Writers
      • Morris(comic "Daisy Town")
      • René Goscinny(comic "Daisy Town")
      • Lori Hill(creator: TV show)
    • Stars
      • Terence Hill
      • Nancy Morgan
      • Roger Miller(voice)
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    • 15User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Lucky Luke (1991)
    Terence Hill, Dominic Barto, Ron Carey, Bo Greigh, and Fritz Sperberg in Lucky Luke (1991)
    Lucky Luke (1991)
    Terence Hill, Dominic Barto, Ron Carey, Bo Greigh, and Fritz Sperberg in Lucky Luke (1991)
    Lucky Luke (1991)
    Terence Hill, Dominic Barto, Ron Carey, Bo Greigh, and Fritz Sperberg in Lucky Luke (1991)
    Terence Hill in Lucky Luke (1991)
    Terence Hill in Lucky Luke (1991)
    Terence Hill and Nancy Morgan in Lucky Luke (1991)
    Terence Hill in Lucky Luke (1991)
    Dominic Barto, Ron Carey, Bo Greigh, and Fritz Sperberg in Lucky Luke (1991)
    Terence Hill in Lucky Luke (1991)

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    Terence Hill
    Terence Hill
    • Lucky Luke
    Nancy Morgan
    Nancy Morgan
    • Lotta Legs
    Roger Miller
    Roger Miller
    • Jolly Jumper
    • (voice)
    Ron Carey
    Ron Carey
    • Joe Dalton
    Dominic Barto
    • William Dalton
    Bo Greigh
    Bo Greigh
    • Jack Dalton
    • (as Bo Gray)
    Fritz Sperberg
    • Averell Dalton
    Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad
    • Ming Li Fu
    Neil Summers
    Neil Summers
    • Deputy Virgil
    Mark Hardwick
    • Hank, the Bartender
    Buff Douthitt
    • The Mayor
    Sky Fabin
    • Digger Graves
    Marc Mouchet
    • Seth Schultz
    Radha Delamarter
    • Martha Schultz
    Robin Westphal
    • Corinne
    Deborah Mansy
    • Belle
    Andrea Camarena-Lindsay
    • Saloon Girl
    • (as Andrea Camarena)
    Paula Baz
    • Saloon Girl
    • Director
      • Terence Hill
    • Writers
      • Morris(comic "Daisy Town")
      • René Goscinny(comic "Daisy Town")
      • Lori Hill(creator: TV show) (screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Regarding the scene where Luke is lying next to a lion, Terence Hill stated in an interview that the lion was from Colorado. It was a wild lion, not a tame one. Pieces of meat were placed around Terence, who was told to stay very still and pretend to be asleep, so the lion would not attack him. In the end, the lion attacked the camera, then ran away towards the saloon.
    • Crazy credits
      1st assistant director Vanja Aljinovic is mistakingly credited as '1st assistant producer'.
    • Connections
      Featured in Troldspejlet: Episode dated 18 December 1992 (1992)
    • Soundtracks
      Lucky Luke
      Written and performed by Roger Miller

      Published by Sycamore Springs Music co/Adam Taylor Music

    User reviews15

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    Top review
    5/10
    Just watch the 1971 animated version instead...
    Created in 1946, Lucky Luke, the "cowboy-who-shoots-faster-than-his-shadow", is the product of a generation raised by the most iconic ambassadors of American cinema: westerns. "Luke's father" Morris knew his classics and every adventure was the opportunity for a fun exploration of one of the many pop-culture aspects of the genre: desperadoes, pioneers, stagecoaches, Indian wars etc. Like I said in my "How the West Was Won" review, you could learn as much about the Old West with Lucky Luke as with John Ford. Yup!

    So here we are in 1991, when it's the Belgian cowboy who inspires an American movie. Now, should we say "finally"? It's impossible not to get some "full-circle coming" vibes and "loop closing" delight in the fact that Morris finally made his poor lonesome cowboy get back to his roots... but let's face it, "Lucky Luke" is as American as hot chocolate. As one of the most successful alumni of the French-Belgian school of comic-books (like rivals Asterix or Tintin) its satirical humor can only mock foreign archetypes in a way that would appeal to a European audience. Maybe Terence Hill was too "European" for Lucky Luke.

    Indeed, Hill is a popular actor who's made a name for himself thanks to his streak of buddy movies during the 70s-80s with Bud Spencer, together they've made millions of people laugh over the world and it's precisely for the relative 'innocence' and 'childishness' of their action-packed "Laurel-and-Hardy" style that a parody of Lucky Luke could have worked for the European public. It could work with Americans on one condition, wherever to go, you've got to fully get into that area. If you go for plain parody, you adopt the "no-holds-barred" Mel Brooks style, if you want to have your Western Spaghetti with a comedic al dente, you make a lighthearted 'Leone'.

    But if you go the "Spencer-Hill" way, at least make sure your Hill is good. And Hill isn't quite good. He's like playing the straight man in a movie without any clowns until the second half starts and by the time the Daltons make their memorable entrance, we've endured a gallery of bland supporting characters supposed to be foils for a Lucky Luke who didn't look any more fun. There's a serious problem when you're more entertained by the voice-over or the stereotypical Chinese laundryman than the film's own hero. Hill played Lucky Luke like a man caught in the middle of strangers, afraid to ask where the bathroom is, while holding a "big one".

    And not only Hill didn't look happy but I'm not even sure he enjoyed doing the film. I wouldn't blame his acting rather than the fact that he was 52, not quite the epitome of his youthful good looks and he used to be quite good-looking. The clothes didn't help either, it's even the first thing that struck us in the theater (yes, I have a pretty vivid memory of this film as one of the first I saw on the big screen). As a kid, I was thinking "but this isn't Lucky Luke, why is he blonde? Old? Where is the black vest, yellow shirt?" but even without these superficial elements that bothered my Dad too (he also grew up reading the comics), the film could have worked. But it didn't. Gene Siskel said "with a great casting, 80% of the movie is there", with this film, you have a good counter-argument.

    Lucky Luke is more fun to watch during the entire opening credits song than the whole movie. I liked his training with the shadow and his faces with the gopher (and when the shadow outruns him) and I reckon the song is quite catchy, if the film was as good as the credits, it could have afforded to be a cult-classic à la "Johnny Dangerously". But there's nothing funny, intimidating or even badass about Luke, he's just standing, posing, making shots so badly edited they wouldn't have made the cutting room of a 30s second feature, not to mention his dubbing voice slightly above Kung Fu movies' level. When he doesn't act, he rides, he sleeps and rides again, the narration of Jolly Jumper is less a fun device than a yawning antidote.

    There are a few good things about the film, I liked Nancy Morgan as Lottie Legs, the Dalton are rather fun with Ron Carey who plays a Pesci version of Tuco, which gets close enough to Joe Dalton and Fretz Seberg was quite a satisfying Averell. When the Daltons pop up, the film's energy is enhanced... for a little while. Joe Dalton finds the town boring and it sounds like a self-referential comment, the Daisy Town in the film doesn't leave much to be interested in... until the Natives' part. But even I, with my mind as open as Fort Alamo, as someone who enjoys the caricatures in Goofy cartoon's "Californyer's Buster" or "Blazing Saddles", I was cringing many times. It's less for the caricatures than the fact the actors weren't even good... as I said, if you want to go for the caricature, do it frankly and responsibly, not shyly, doesn't work with Americans... doesn't work with any audience actually.

    The 1990s wasn't exactly a great decade for Lucky Luke. In 1991, the new animated series came out and despite a relative faithfulness to the albums' spirit plot-wise, it lacked the zany energy of the 80s Hanna-Barbera version. Then after what I consider his last great album "The Daltons' Amnesia", the trait of Morris, worsened by age, was going more and more uncertain until he indulged to a practice which I believe is the antithesis of creation: reproducing frames in the same page. I don't think I bought any album made after "The Dalton at the Party" in 1993.

    In that unfortunate lackluster context, the movie didn't improve things; and it's quite fitting that its funniest running gag is an interrogation mark over someone's head.
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    • Sep 28, 2018

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    • Release date
      • July 4, 1991 (Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Щасливчик Люк
    • Filming locations
      • White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, USA
    • Production companies
      • Paloma Films
      • Reteitalia
      • Paloma Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 32 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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