Eat or die

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Movie
German title Eat or die
Original title Vivi o preferibilmente morti
Country of production Italy , Spain
original language Italian
Publishing year 1969
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Duccio Tessari
script Duccio Tessari
Giorgio Salvioni
music Gianni Ferrio
camera Manuel Rojas
cut Mario Morra
occupation
synchronization

Eat or die (Original title: Vivi o preferibilmente morti ) is a spaghetti western comedy by Duccio Tessari from 1969. The film was also released under the titles Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid as well as Hallelujah for 2 gallows .

action

The two dissimilar brothers, the over-indebted gambler and daredevil Monty and the farmer Ted, do not particularly like each other and have so far successfully avoided each other until the death of their rich uncle brings them together. In order to benefit from the inheritance, however, the two must meet one condition: to get along peacefully for six months. However, the coexistence of the two is anything but peaceful. As soon as Monty has arrived at Ted's farm, it is attacked by horse thieves led by the nefarious bandit Jim. The farm goes up in flames. The two brothers, now penniless, try to keep themselves afloat with trickery until the inheritance is received. But the kidnapping of a spoiled banker's daughter as well as robberies on a stagecoach and a money transport fail and each time ends in wild brawls. However, there is one good thing about the failures: They weld the brawlers Monty and Ted together.

Reviews

The reviews were mostly positive: Hermine Fürstweger found it to be "a briskly staged western grotesque powdered with peppery dialogues in which Giuliano Gemma and Nino Benvenuti turn out to be comedians". Ulrich Bruckner analyzed that this was “a completely different film to Tessari's previous westerns, a comedy set in the modern western that anticipates the later Terence Hill & Bud Spencer comedies. Here, too, there are numerous funny fistfights and other funny actions. Giuliano Gemma and Nino Benvenuti are excellent and let a firework of funny ideas burn down. [...] It is surprising how well the director has found the transition from the classic, tough Italo-Western to the Western Persilflage. "Günther Pflaum finally came to the conclusion that" the third "Western" by Italian Duccio Tessari is one of the notable exceptions in many respects his genus. More money has been put into it than into many other spaghetti westerns, and more has come out of it, namely a very carefully made film that shows that the director has worked with love, effort and good material. [...] The episode form in which the comic adventures are told brings occasional lulls and thirst, but then again and again nice moments follow; some of the gags are quite original, and the simple slapstick turns into skilfully staged slapstick scenes. The brawls are almost ready for ballet and parody the bloodthirsty seriousness of the Italian western. Despite the German synchronization, which constantly parrots Al Mundy's sayings from the television series of the same name, Tessari's western comedy is a film in which the viewer is not cheated of his pleasure for once. "

background

The film has appeared under numerous different titles. For marketing purposes it was shown in the US under the title Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid , although it has nothing to do with the 1969 and incomparably more successful western comedy Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (with Robert Redford and Paul Newman ). The film was also released on DVD in Germany under the title Sundance Cassidy and Butch The Kid . Previous titles included Hallelujah for Two Gallows , Hallelujah for Two Guns, and A Crazy Inheritance .

The role of Ted took over the Italian professional boxer Nino Benvenuti , who won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 and was WBA and WBC world light middleweight champion in 1967.

You can hear the film songs Monty and Ted by The Wilder Brothers , December 24th by I Cantori Moderni and Yes Sir by Lilian Terry .

synchronization

The German version was created by Deutsche Synchron in Berlin; Ursula Buschow wrote the dialogue book and Karlheinz Brunnemann directed it.

actor speaker role
Giuliano Gemma Rainer Brandt Monty Mulligan
Sydne Rome Ursula Herwig Rome
Antonio Casas Martin Hirthe Barnes
Cris Huerta Alexander Welbat Jim
José Canalejas Karlheinz Brunnemann Cowboy on the train
Fritz Tillmann mayor
Gerd Martienzen "Rumpelstiltskin"
Karlheinz Brunnemann Man in front of hotel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eat or die. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Hermine Fürstweger in Film-Echo , based on Joe Hembus : Das Westernlexikon , Munich 1995
  3. ↑ Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses , Munich 2006, p. 214.
  4. ^ Günther Pflaum in Film Dienst , FD 16 781
  5. ↑ Eat or die. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .