Flat foot on the Nile
| Movie | |
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| German title | Flat foot on the Nile |
| Original title | Piedone d'Egitto |
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| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stefano Steno Vanzina |
| script |
Adriano Bolzoni Massimo Franciosa Stefano Vanzina |
| music |
Guido De Angelis Maurizio De Angelis |
| camera |
Sandro Borni Luigi Kuveiller |
| cut |
Carlo Bartolucci Mario Morra |
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| chronology | |
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Flatfoot on the Nile (original title: Piedone d'Egitto ) was the last of four parts of the successful flatfoot series, which focuses on the plump detective Manuele Rizzo - nickname Flatfoot - and his assistant Pedro Caputo. It followed the film Flatfoot in Africa .
action
The Arab Omar Hakim gives the Naples police a tip that enables Commissioner Rizzo to free a kidnapped girl. It's Connie, the niece of oil millionaire Lee G. Burns. He then offers Rizzo a well-paid job as a security guard. Rizzo initially refuses, but a little later Omar is murdered and the beetle researcher Professor Cerullo is kidnapped. He had claimed to have made a discovery that Burns was of great interest.
Rizzo then follows Burns to Egypt . He is accompanied by his assistant Caputo and his adopted son Bodo (from Flatfoot in Africa), who smuggled himself on board the plane unnoticed against Rizzo's will. After several attacks were carried out against him, the inspector finally succeeds in interrogating one of the kidnappers. He learns that his opponent is a man who is called "the Swede". He can also find out where the professor is being held. He then frees him. A little later, however, the professor is kidnapped again. Rizzo follows the kidnappers into the desert, where he is also captured. He meets the Swede and Zakar, the real mastermind, who wants to kill him and Burns, Connie and Caputo in an agonizing way so that he can use Professor Cerullo's discovery himself: He claims to have discovered a beetle, the appearance of which is supposed to indicate oil deposits.
With the help of the leader of the nomads, who is the brother of Omar, who was killed by the Swede, Rizzo is able to free himself. After a fight, he hands the gangsters over to the army and returns to Naples. There the professor is looking for the oil beetle again. When he supposedly found oil with the help of the beetle, however, he only drilled into the port's waste oil pipeline.
German version
Rainer Brandt wrote the dialogue book and also directed it. After Wolfgang Hess dubbed Bud Spencer in the first two Flatfoot films and Martin Hirthe in the third part , Arnold Marquis could now be heard as Inspector Rizzo.
In the GDR, DEFA produced its own dubbed version in which Spencer was spoken by Wolfgang Dehler.
| actor | character | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Bud Spencer | Commissioner Manuele Rizzo | Arnold Marquis |
| Enzo Cannavale | Pedro Caputo | Friedrich W. Building School |
| Angelo Infanti | Hassan | Wolfgang Völz |
| Cinzia Monreale | Connie Burns | Evelyn Marron |
| Karl Otto Alberty | "This Swedish guy" | Karl Schulz |
| Adel Adham | Elver Zakar | Heinz Petruo |
| Mahmoud Kabil | Lieutenant Kevir | Frank Glaubrecht |
| Baldwyn Dakile | Bodo | |
| Robert Loggia | Lee G. Burns | Randolf Kronberg |
| Leopoldo Trieste | Professor Cerullo | Friedrich Georg Beckhaus |
criticism
"Fourth film in the 'Flatfoot' series - staged entirely according to the usual pattern of the beating comedies."
“Bud Spencer as Commissioner Rizzo, who is tracking down a gang of terrorists on the Nile, walks with an inconspicuousness under Egypt's palm trees that the most phlegmatic camels turn around to look at him. Questionable high points are those monster brawls in which a third-rate slapstick director is apparently trying to restructure the Peking Opera into the action of an Italo-Western. And that on the Nile ...! "
DVD release
The film was released on DVD on March 3, 2005 by Paramount.
Web links
- Flatfoot on the Nile in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Flatfoot on the Nile in the German synchronous file
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d According to other sources (e.g. the German dubbing index ) Hassan was played by Adel Adham and Elver Zakar by Angelo Infanti.
- ↑ Flatfoot on the Nile in the German synchronous file
- ^ Flatfoot on the Nile on Bud Spencer's official website
- ↑ Flat foot on the Nile. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .