Banana Joe
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Banana Joe |
| Original title | Banana Joe |
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| Country of production |
Italy , Germany |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Shorthand |
| script |
Mario Amendola Bruno Corbucci Bud Spencer (as Carlo Pedersoli ) Stefano Vanzina |
| production |
Josi W. Konski Karl Spiehs |
| music | Oliver Onions |
| camera | Luigi Kuveiller |
| cut | Raimondo Crociani |
| occupation | |
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Banana Joe is an Italian-German feature film with Bud Spencer from 1982. The film opened on March 25, 1982 in German cinemas.
action
Banana Joe is a peaceful banana farmer and lives with his numerous wives and children in the small South American jungle village of Amantido. His most important possession is a steam-powered transport boat, with which he regularly brings the bananas to the nearest town and exchanges them for all kinds of everyday items.
The crime boss Torcillo plans to open his own banana plantation in Amantido. When his engineer Moreno, who is supposed to plan the project, encounters Joe's resistance, Torcillo takes other means to drive him out of the banana business. He points out to the local police chief that Joe has neither valid identification nor a banana trading license, so Joe has to make his way to the provincial capital Puerto Grande to get the necessary papers.
There he meets the petty crook Manuel, who uses various tricks to take some of his money. Then Joe falls in love with the pretty singer Dorianne. Eventually he enrolls in the military to get his ID, but frustrated with the hurdles of bureaucracy, Joe pushes it so far that he ends up in jail. Manuel, whom he meets there again, has meanwhile been able to get him a license through his good connections.
In order to be able to help his village, in which Torcillo is now pushing ahead with the construction of the banana factory and a casino, Joe and Manuel break out of prison and Joe demolishes the plantation buildings that have now been built. Shortly afterwards, both of them receive an amnesty because Manuel has good contacts with the President, whom he helped solve a problem. Torcillo and his accomplices are arrested and Dorianne opens a village school. In addition to the children, Joe also belongs to the pupils of the village school, who until then could neither read nor write.
Reviews
- "Bud Spencer film with fewer fights than usual, but also only a few comical ideas." ( Lexicon of international films )
Trivia
- The screenplay was written by Bud Spencer under his real name Carlo Pedersoli.
- The co-producing company is the German Lisa Film GmbH.
- Before and after the appearance of Dorianne, played by Marina Langner , the nightclub plays the song Brotherly Love (from the soundtrack of the film Two Unstoppable ). During the performance, she does not sing the song Wanna believe , but Yvonne Wilkins. Likewise, the soundtrack of Zwei runs out of control a few time before Joe dismantles the casino.
- The film was shot to a large extent in Colombia in the city of Cartagena de Indias and the surrounding area.
- The band Anajo claims to have named themselves after this film (Ban ana Jo e).
DVD release
The film was released on DVD on July 3, 2003 by ems new media .
It has been available as Blu-ray from 3L since August 14, 2013 .
Web links
- Banana Joe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Banana Joe. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Dirk Wilske: Italowestern through the ages: From violent film to comedy . Diplomica Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8428-9914-8 , pp. 35 ( google.de [accessed September 25, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Marc Halupczok: Bud Spencer and Terence Hill: 4 fists simply cannot be stopped . UBOOKS, 2013, ISBN 978-3-939239-70-3 ( google.de [accessed September 25, 2018]).