The big one with his extraterrestrial little one

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Movie
German title The big one with his extraterrestrial little one
Original title Uno sceriffo extraterrestre… poco extra e molto terrestre
The big one with the extraterrestrial little one. Svg
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1979
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Michele Lupo
script Marcello Fondato ,
Francesco Scardamaglia
production Elio Scardamaglia
Leone Film Rome
music Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
camera Franco di Giacomo
cut Eugenio Alabiso
occupation
synchronization

The big one with his extra-terrestrial little one (original title: Uno sceriffo extraterrestre… poco extra e molto terrestre ) is a comedy with science fiction elements, first performed in 1979 . Bud Spencer plays an American provincial sheriff who meets and takes care of a little alien named H7-25 ( Cary Guffey ). The H7-25 looks and acts like an earthly little boy, but has a universal tool called a photon cannon, which uses "biomagnetic energy" to manipulate objects and impart superhuman abilities. Soon the UFO task force is chasing him and the sheriff is busy getting him back to the spaceship and to safety. There, however, H7-25 is given permission to stay with the sheriff for a while. The locations include Newnan , Stone Mountain and the Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park . Director Michele Lupo's film received the Golden Screen in 1980 . It was continued in 1980 with Buddy haut den Lukas ( Chissà perché… capitano tutte a me ).

Summary

German movie poster
Tobis , 1979
Image on heyse-online

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H7-25 and the sheriff
Michele Lupo , 1979
Italy cinema poster on Spencer / Hill database

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Note: Unless otherwise stated, the information in this section is based on the DVD released by ems new media in 2004 .

Newnan in the US state of Georgia is a quiet town. This changes when several residents claim to have sighted a UFO over the nearby lake and the military, led by Captain Briggs, cordoned off the area south of the lake. Accidents happen and devices and fixtures get out of control, which residents explain with the influence of UFOs. The Sheriff of Newnan is one of the few who thinks nothing of this rumor. He is looking for the runaway boy Peter in a nocturnal amusement park and finds him together with a second little boy who claims his name is H7-25 and comes from space. He only came to earth by mistake from his father's spaceship. Since this boy still does not give a credible name or place of residence, he takes him for the time being. Strange things are happening more and more often, because the little one can apparently use a kind of remote control (“photon cannon”) to set devices and devices in motion that let time run back and forth, talk to animals and walk through walls. With this tool he even frees the crook Brennan from the sheriff's custody several times . He does not fish with a rod , but the fish jump into his hand. With energy capsules, he helps the rheumatic deputy Allan to regain youthful strength and flexibility. Finally, the sheriff is convinced and speaks to a general of the air force so that the military can contact the spaceship and bring the boy to his father. However, H7-25 refuses to show his skills. The photon cannon, which is supposed to serve as evidence, suddenly appears as a toy.

The general doesn't believe anything, but Captain Briggs, who was already convinced of the presence of aliens, is now trying to get hold of the H7-25. The sheriff delivers the boy first, but when he sees that he is being badly treated, he takes control of the helicopters and crews with the photon cannon and frees him. This is what spurs Briggs on. He now wants - out of a personal power calculation - to get the photon cannon into his hand. During a second attempt at access by the Briggs-led UFO Sonderkommando, a violent fight develops in which a large part of the interior of a supermarket is broken. The sheriff gets unexpected help from the crook Brennan , who was also attacked and spontaneously participates in the brawl. H7-25 stays in the background and uses its cannon to influence the brawl in favor of its protectors. After this threat has been averted, the spaceship makes contact by driving the sheriff's official car on a wild ride to the Stone Mountain monolith , the place that has been designated as the future meeting point. On a third attempt, soon after, Briggs manages to stun the sheriff and kidnap the boy. Since the sheriff himself has extraordinary abilities due to the contact with the photon beam of the spaceship, he can rescue the boy from the air force base, where he is being interrogated in a dark shooting range . After the escape, there is a last big fight with the persecutors at a fire brigade festival. The incidentally present Brennan supports the sheriff again. The H7-25 not only intervenes with its photon cannon, with which it renders the soldiers' weapons unusable, but also distributes energy capsules. The rheumatic deputy sheriff Allan can also take part. Then the sheriff drives the boy to the agreed meeting point, but since he has grown to love him, it is difficult for him to say goodbye. Soon afterwards, H7-25 is back in the car and announces that it can stay with him with special permission. Quote: Only for five thousand light years , but that's enough.

Action details

When the sheriff tries to light a campfire in the forest, the matches don't burn. He tells the boy about a Laurel & Hardy film in which a thumb is used as a lighter. When he demonstrates the move, his thumb actually burns. H7-25 explains this with the “biomagnetic energy” of the spaceship. When the sheriff later breaks into an air force base, he uses this "thumb lighter" to burn a telltale list of names. He encounters a guard dog that he can talk to through "biomagnetic energy" and that leads him to H7-25.

Quotes

"Yes, I already know, now we have a total power failure - here too - dark as a black ass."

- The sheriff to deputy Allan.

"Take care, growler, I'll show you something so you don't die stupid."

- H7-25 to the sheriff.

"I forbid that, my dog ​​is more intelligent than me!"

- The Air Force general to the sheriff.

background

The film is the second collaboration between director Michele Lupo and Bud Spencer after you called it Mücke . The original title Uno sceriffo extraterrestre ... poco extra e molto terrestre roughly means in German: An extraterrestrial sheriff - little extraterrestrial and very earthly . The screenplay was written by Marcello Fondato , who directed Zwei wie Pech und Schwefel and Charleston . The film was shot in the city of Newnan, there are also a number of other locations: the nightly amusement park in which the sheriff first encountered H7-25, as can be seen from the labeling of the fairground rides, the Six Flags Over Georgia near Atlanta . The horses carousel that is the boy at the beginning of acquaintance in motion is in the National Register of Historic Places listed Riverview Carousel . Briggs' first attempt to get hold of the boy was filmed at the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium . In one shot, the dome of the Georgia State Capitol can be seen in the background on the right . The Air Force Bases shown are the Warner Robbins and Dobbins Air Force Bases. The meeting point with the alien spaceship is at the Stone Mountain monolith with a view of the huge relief on the north wall. The actor who played the little alien, Cary Guffey , already starred in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind . Bud Spencer notes in the first part of his autobiography that Spielberg followed the further development of the boy who was his discovery and had seen the film. The big one with his extra-terrestrial little one was the inspiration for Spielberg's later box office hit ET - The Extra-Terrestrial .

A Ford LTD, Mj. 1978 when used as a police car in Cleveland , Ohio
H7-25 with William Lawson's bottles
Michele Lupo , 1979
Film image on schnittberichte.com

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The sheriff's company car is a Ford LTD , model year 1978. In fact, the vehicle type was also offered as a police car at the time. At the end you see a bomber and two Mark IX Hawk space fighters from the Moon Base Alpha 1 episode Attack from Space . Branded products and logos are often placed very conspicuously. In addition to Coca-Cola (including fire station in the entrance sequence, supermarket), this applies above all to William Lawson’s whiskey brand: H7-25 brings its photon cannon into position behind bottles of this brand during the fight at the fire brigade festival. The effects used in the film are kept very simple, this can be seen most clearly in the comic-like brawls in which the H7-25 intervenes with its photon cannon. Different settings are repeated several times in direct succession. Hits, falls and the like are underlaid with strange sound effects.

The sheriff is not addressed by first or last name, but with the job title or a nickname (see also the section on quotations). As an intruder in the air force base, in order to confuse the guards, he introduces himself with different names and demonstratively points to a non-existent name tag on his uniform jacket. A name that is still used in publications is Craft , including on the cover of the DVD released by ems new media in 2004. In older releases on Super 8 and VHS , the character is called, like its actor, Spencer (marketing film).

The English title is The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid . Spencer mostly spoke his roles in the English versions himself, although he did not speak the language. He trained the correct pronunciation with the Italian-American dialogue trainer Raffaele (Ray) Mottola , who at the beginning can be seen in a small role as a reporter.

Pictures of the locations

  • Coweta County Courthouse in Newnan

  • Riverview Carousel

  • Great Gasp in Six Flags Over Georgia (2005)

  • Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium with the Georgia State Capitol dome (front left)

  • Stone Mountain with the huge relief on the north face

  • Aerial photo of Dobbins Air Force Base (2004)

actor

  • The role of sheriff is occupied by the former Italian swimmer Bud Spencer (actually Carlo Pedersoli). He established his reputation as a film star with numerous western and action comedies.
  • The deputy sheriff Allan is played by the comedian Luigi Bonos .

Film music (selection)

Cover of the soundtrack LP
Oliver Onions / Polydor , 1979
Image on soundtrackcollector.com

[ Cover of the soundtrack LP ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Link to the picture]
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The soundtrack by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis (Oliver Onions) was released in 1979 by Polydor (No. 2374152). Here are some of the pieces from the film, the comments refer to the DVD released by ems new media in 2004.

  • The song Sheriff (including title sequence, film end / credits.)
  • The instrumental piece L 'Ultimo Valzer (The sheriff becomes friends with H7-25, the boy is kidnapped by Briggs / picked up from the spaceship.)
  • The song Whistle And Bells (brawl in the supermarket / at the fire brigade festival.)
  • The song Mundialito (The sheriff makes the soldiers dance.)

German dubbed version

actor speaker role Remarks
Bud Spencer Arnold Marquis sheriff without name
Cary Guffey Katrin Fröhlich H7-25
Joe Bugner Joachim Tennstedt Brennan
Luigi Bonos Eric Vaessen Deputy Allan
Raimund Harmstorf Raimund Harmstorf Capt. Briggs
Harold E. Finch Michael Chevalier general without name
Carlo Reali Rainer Brandt Lt. Gymnast

The whereabouts of the photon cannon

The German synchronization causes a contradiction to the continuation in the final dialogue: H7-25 answers the sheriff's question about the photon cannon (verbal horned radiation orthophoto ): I left it up, if I stay with you, I don't need it. This photon cannon is one of the reasons for the constant escape in Buddy Beats Luke , as its signals enable the military to locate the location.

Publications and Approvals

The premiere took place in German cinemas on August 10, 1979. The film was first available as a Super 8 copy in three acts and as a VHS cassette (both marketing-film). The first DVD version was released on September 2, 2004 by ems new media. In 2009 the film was released again on DVD, this time from 3L Film. However, this version has been shortened and is based on the Italian version of the film. A Blu-ray version has been available since April 24, 2014 (also 3L film). This Blu-ray contains both the German uncut version and the shorter Italian version.

The approval of the FSK was originally valid from 6 years (according to § 7 JÖSchG ). As of the 2004 DVD release, the age has been increased to 12 years.

Awards

Reviews

"Bud Spencer's encounter of the powerful third kind!"

- Dirk Jasper Film Lexicon

"Bud Spencer film with a science fiction element, the naive story of which, despite a few technical antics, is largely staged without a point."

- Lexicon of international film

"A beating orgy with a few nice tricks."

- cinema.de

literature

  • Bud Spencer: My Life, My Films - The Autobiography. With Lorenzo De Luca and David de Filippi. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2011, 8th edition ISBN 978-3-86265-041-5
  • Bud Spencer: Around the world in eighty years. The second part of my autobiography. With Lorenzo de Luca. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-86265-107-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DVD from 14:51 (The Sheriff meets H7-25)
  2. ↑ DVD from 33:51 (H7-25 catches fish)
  3. ↑ DVD from 28:41 and 1:18:17 (energy capsules)
  4. ↑ DVD from 39:35 (conversation with the general)
  5. ↑ DVD 44:31 - 51:31 (Briggs' first access / brawl in the supermarket)
  6. ↑ DVD: from 1:05:28 (The interrogation)
  7. ↑ DVD from 1:22:09 (farewell and reunion), 1:27:01 (quote)
  8. ↑ DVD from 1:00:46 (The Thumb Lighter)
  9. ↑ DVD from 1:07:24 (The Sheriff in the Air Force Base)
  10. ↑ DVD ems 2004: 13:36
  11. ↑ DVD ems 2004: 37:00
  12. ↑ DVD ems 2004: 41:56
  13. ↑ Translation by Leo Molatore in: Bud Spencer: My Life, My Films - The Autobiography (footnote 30 on p. 112)
  14. ↑ Bud Spencer: Around the World in Eighty Years. The second part of my autobiography p. 113f. (Michele Lupo / Bud Spencer, screenplay)
  15. ^ National Register of Historic Places (Riverview Carousel) . Accessed April 8, 2016
  16. ↑ PARK HISTORY. Six Flags over Georgia Unlimited and brassringcarousel.com . Accessed April 8, 2016. See also: The big one with his extra-terrestrial little one . ems new media 2004 from 14:05 to 20:41.
  17. ↑ DVD ems new media 2004: 44:28 to 49:42 (Georgia State Capitol: 44:36)
  18. ^ Howard Hughes: Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult . Tauris IB 2011 ISBN 978-1-84885-608-0 p. 118 (Air Force Bases, Stone Mountain)
  19. ↑ Bud Spencer: My Life, My Films - The Autobiography. P. 173 (About Aliens)
  20. ↑ DVD ems new media 2004 from 1:20:30 William Lawson's bottles
  21. ↑ Examples: 04:15 (turned wrist), 52:08 (the church bell), 1:21:33 (cash register). DVD ems new media 2004
  22. ↑ DVD ems 2004: from 1:08:12
  23. ↑ Surrender, Sheriff Spencer! Cover of a Super 8 version on super-8-hobby.de (complete page) , accessed on March 24, 2017
  24. ↑ a b c Cover of a marketing-film VHS cassette ( memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on ecover.to ( memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 20, 2016
  25. ^ DVD: The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid , Televista 2007
  26. ↑ Bud Spencer: Around the World in Eighty Years , p. 153
  27. ↑ heyse-online.de: Raffaele Mottola , see also: The big one with his extraterrestrial little one ems new media, film scenes from 00:01:11
  28. ↑ Bud Spencer on heyse-online.de accessed on April 18, 2014
  29. ↑ Cary Guffey on IMDb accessed on April 18, 2014
  30. ↑ Joe Bugner on heyse-online.de accessed on April 18, 2014
  31. ↑ Raimund Harmstorf on heyse-online.de accessed on April 18, 2014
  32. ↑ Luigi Bonos on heyse-online accessed on April 18, 2014
  33. ↑ soundtrackcollector.com accessed on March 28, 2014
  34. ↑ synchronkartei.de accessed on April 6, 2014
  35. ↑ The big one with his extraterrestrial little one , ems new media 2004 from 1:26:55
  36. ↑ German version: 00:42 / Italian version 01:34. DVD: Buddy hits the Lukas Universum Film 2013 No. 88765 42690 9
  37. ↑ super-8-hobby.de accessed on March 24, 2017
  38. ↑ Report on Schnittberichte.com
  39. ↑ Blu-ray on cinefacts.de accessed on April 24, 2014
  40. ↑ Blu-ray details on Schnittberichte.com
  41. ↑ Cover of the ems DVD from 2004 ( Memento from May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on ecover.to ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 20, 2016
  42. ↑ filmecho.de accessed on April 22, 2014
  43. ↑ The big one with his extraterrestrial little one. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  44. ↑ cinema.de
  45. ↑ The Sheriff & the Satellite Kid ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Note: Archive page with broken video integration