Adios Companeros

This article is about the film Giù la testa… hombre ; for another film with the German alternative title Adios Companeros see For a coffin full of dollars .

Movie
German title	Adios Companeros
Original title	Giù la testa… hombre
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1971
length	83 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Demofilo Fidani (as Miles Deem )
script	Demofilo Fidani Mila Vitelli
production	Massimo Bernardi Diego Spataro
music	Lallo Gori
camera	Joe D'Amato (as Aristide Massaccesi )
cut	Piera Bruni
occupation
Hunt Powers : Butch Cassidy Gordon Mitchell : Ironhead Giancarlo Prete : Sundance Kid (as Philip Garner ) Benito Pacifico : Buck O'Sullivan (as Dennis Colt ) Grazia Giuvi : Saloon girl Luciano Conti : Ben, bandit with doll (as Lucky McMurray ) Klaus Kinski : Reverend Cotten Jeff Cameron : Macho Callagan Renzo Arbore : Notary Stark Pino Polidori : townspeople Pietro Fumelli : man who grooms macho Manlio Salvatori : Mister Pinkerton Alessandro Perrella : townspeople Amerigo Castrighella : Lucas (as Custer Gail ) Giglio Gigli : one of Donovan's people

Adios Companeros (original title: Giù la testa ... hombre ) is a spaghetti westerns of demofilo fidani . Alternative titles are "I want your head" and "I want it dead".

content

Macho Callagan, an army lieutenant, is sent to a small town as a secret agent to bring down the bandit horde of Butch Cassidy and Ironhead Donovan. He is accepted into the gang, pretending to be wanted. When the two bosses fall out, they split the gang and move on separately. Macho who stays with Ironhead can persuade him to attack his ex-partner. In the resulting fight, the bandits decimate themselves considerably. Ironhead tries to escape with the gang's money, but is eventually shot by macho.

background

This Fidani was also shot to a large extent on the small film site of Gordon Mitchell , the so-called Cave Studios . In the grand finale you can see all of these scenes. The film opened in Italy in April 1971.

Fidani shot this film parallel to For a Coffin Full of Dollars , with which this film is often confused because of its alternative title. In addition to the scenery, the director also used a large part of the actors for both films.

This film became legendary because of an apple scene with Klaus Kinski . Genre connoisseur Christian Keßler describes this scene as follows:

“He bites into an apple, suddenly has half the fruit in his mouth and looks puzzled. Any normal person would reach for their mouth here to manually regulate the damage. He does not. with wild contortions of his elastic chin he tries his best and almost grins at the attempt! Golden moments ... "

- Christian Keßler : Welcome to Hell, 2002

criticism

“This is also not a film for a poetry album! A below-average Fidani, whose script is a motley mixed up affair, which not even individual capers ensure any particular entertainment value. "

- Christian Keßler : Welcome to Hell 2002, p. 112

"Extremely below average Trashwestern by Demofilo Fidani."

- Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, p. 597

Remarks

The film was released again in Italy in 1972 under the title Doppia taglia per Minnesota Stinky and slightly recut.

Web links

• Adios Companeros in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film Vol. 4, dal 1970 al 1979, tomo 1, AL . Rome 1996, p. 341