Partirono preti, tornarono ... curati

Movie
Original title	Partirono preti, tornarono ... curati
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1973
length	102 minutes
Rod
Director	Bianco Manini (as Newman Rostel )
script	Bianco Manini
production	Bianco Manini
music	Luis Bacalov
camera	Carlo Carlini
cut	Romeo Ciatti
occupation
Lionel Stander : Sam Thompson Riccardo Salvino : Joe the fearful Giampiero Albertini : General Monco Miguel Jean Louis : Don Felipe Clara Hopf : Adelita Camillo Milli : Dept. Tom Felleghy : Mexican Colonel Spartaco Conversi : Revolutionary Giancarlo Badessi : Governor Federico Boido : one of Miguel's people (as Rick Boyd ) Sergio Serafini : one of Miguel's people Luigi Antonio Guerra

Partirono preti, tornarono ... curati is a 1972 movie directed producer Bianco Manini incurred comedic spaghetti westerns , discussed mostly negative by critics and did not come to the performance in Germany.

action

Sam and Joe are per profile sought and drive in the drawn revolutionary turmoil around Mexico to escape their captors and easy to get money. The revolutionary leader Monco takes them prisoner and keeps them for priests because of their temporary clothing. With them he now wants to fake a gold robbery in order to get a ransom from the governor. These ventures involve Sam and Joe in a series of adventures that also include clashing with arrogant landowner Don Felipe and becoming part of an extended shootout.

Joe also wins the heart of Monco's granddaughter Adelita, who lives in a church apartment in the small town, where the loss of a statue of a saint is compensated by the fact that old Sam is shown in a procession. The looted money, which they have in the meantime, is carried by the wind to the delighted citizens of the town. Joe stays with Adelita; Sam is offered a role as a cardinal.

criticism

“The flimsy story is realized with remarkable effort, but is full of old jokes and trivial jokes, sometimes grotesque, mostly silly. The humor shown shows bad taste and is at the expense of biblical and ecclesiastical content, ”wrote Segnalazioni Cinematografiche ; and A. Valdata described the film as an attempt to establish a new comedian couple after Spencer / Hill with Lionel Stander and Riccardo Salvino, as failed due to the stereotypical Mexican background.

Christian Keßler said more positively, the sympathetic leading actors made the film a "more than welcome surprise" among the western comedies.

Remarks

Partirono preti, tornarono… curati (for example: “You went as a priest and came as a priest helper”) is often attributed to Stelvio Massi , whose first film as a director this would have been. In a letter, Massi denied his participation.

In the film you can hear the song "Blue Eggs and Ham".

Web links

• Partirono preti, tornarono ... curati in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Title case for entry in Archicio del Cinema italiano
2. ↑ A. Valdata in: Stampa Sera, May 2, 1973
3. ↑ Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, p. 180
4. ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del Cinema Italiano. I film dal 1970 al 1979. Vol. 2, tomo 4, MZ. Gremese 1996, p. 126/7