They called him Flat Feet
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German title | They called him Flat Feet |
Original title | Piedone lo sbirro |
Country of production | Italy , France |
original language | Italian |
Publishing year | 1973 |
length | 99 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Stefano "Steno" Vanzina |
script |
Lucio de Caro Nicola Badalucco Luciano Vincenzoni |
production | Sergio Bonotti |
music | Guido & Maurizio De Angelis |
camera | Silvano Ippoliti |
cut | Daniele Alabiso |
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They called him Flatfoot (original title: Piedone lo sbirro ) was the first of four parts of the successful crime film series, the focus of which is the plump, but peace-loving detective Manuele Rizzo - nickname Flatfoot - and his assistant Caputo. The cinema release in the Federal Republic of Germany was on February 14, 1974 and in the GDR on September 16, 1977. The film was re-released in May 1982 under the title Buddy catches only big fish . The sequels are Flatfoot cleans up , Flatfoot in Africa and Flatfoot on the Nile .
action
Joe, an American sailor, rioted under the influence of drugs with a gun on a skyscraper roof in the middle of Naples. When Joe is about to be shot by snipers, Inspector Rizzo appears. He stops his colleagues from shooting the man and climbs onto the roof himself. There he succeeds with difficulty in overpowering the seaman. After a one-on-one conversation, the detective takes more narcotics from the marine, but promises him a lighter sentence if he can be arrested without further resistance. They later agree on "sunstroke" as the cause of the freaking out.
When Rizzo returned to his office the same day, he learned that he was getting a new manager, a certain Dr. Tabassi. He wants all police officers to carry a firearm, which Rizzo dislikes as he is always unarmed and only uses his fists. Tabassi also makes it clear to Rizzo that he doesn't think much of his methods.
After a prostitute named Marta was disfigured with a sharp coin on her face, Rizzo takes on the matter. He learns from a friend Marta who is behind it: Ferdinando Scarano, known as "The Baron". Rizzo confronts him and beats him up. He is sure that Ferdinando plays an important role in the drug business. Shortly before he wants to confess under Rizzo's pressure (beating), however, his lawyer de Ribbis appears and he is released due to lack of evidence. Rizzo is suspended by his new boss, Tabassi, because he beat up Scarano and does not follow the rules.
Rizzo continues to investigate despite the suspension. He turns to the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra , and makes it clear to its leaders that they will soon have nothing more to say if they do not support him against the foreign drug dealers from Marseille. A member of the Camorra by the name of Tonino Percuoco, called by everyone just "two-finger Joe" (since he only has two fingers on his left hand), persuades his Camorra colleagues to give Rizzo a hand, which they do do energetically.
Now Ferdinando, the baron, answers; he wants to speak to Rizzo. The baron wants to confess and ask for protection that the foreign dealers for whom he worked are now threatening him because the Camorra members led by Rizzo have deprived him of his drugs and thus he makes no profit. When Rizzo appears, Ferdinando is already lying on a deck chair, shot in the head. Rizzo can barely leave the scene of the crime unobtrusively.
Rizzo is summoned by his boss, Tabassi. He suspected him of both killing Ferdinando and of having committed another murder. The other victim is a short man named Scartelato, who everyone just called "The Hunchback". He was one of Rizzo's paid informants, although most of the time he was just making up stories. Rizzo sees him less an informant than a friend and good luck charm. While investigating the crime scene, Rizzo comes across an important clue that Scartelato left him. He also remembers Scartelato telling him something about a drug delivery from Genoa that is supposed to arrive at the port.
In the port, however, he learns that no ship would arrive from Genoa, but then realizes that a large fishing trawler is called "Genoa". To get on this ship, Rizzo asks sailor Joe for help, which he receives immediately due to the events on the roof of the house and who also brings two powerful friends with him. After a big fight, Rizzo finds the drug, which is in the bellies of dead fish. Rizzo has taken almost the entire drug supply from the foreign drug ring and is now looking for the Italian traitor, believing that he murdered both Ferdinando, the baron, and the hunchback. Rizzo also suspects that his boss Tabassi, who is always hostile to him, is in league with the foreigners.
Rizzo meets with Two Finger Joe, who always helped him, despite having a high position in the Neapolitan Camorra. When the latter denies Rizzo's allegations, Rizzo confronts him with the evidence he found at the hunchback's crime scene: Scartelato had positioned his fingers on his left hand so that they resembled the hand of two-fingered Joe, his murderer.
Two-Finger Joe tries to shoot Rizzo, but the police show up and try to arrest them both. In the end, Rizzo discovers that his boss Tabassi is on the right side and used Rizzo as bait to get at the criminals. Rizzo thought Tabassi was a traitor, Tabassi suspected the same of Rizzo. When he was arrested, two-finger Joe was able to flee to the catacombs, but was finally arrested after another fight with Rizzo.
criticism
"The climax of the countless brawls, which are always tempered by slapstick-like comedy, is a turbulent fight in the ship's storage room, in which frozen fish serve as projectiles."
German version
The German version was created by Deutsche Synchron . Karlheinz Brunnemann and Arne Elsholtz wrote the dialogue book and Karlheinz Brunnemann directed. Bud Spencer was voiced by Wolfgang Hess . The German version is about three minutes shorter than the Italian version.
DVD and Blu-ray releases
The film was released under the title Buddy catches only big fish in 2005 in the cut German version on Paramount . In 2012 Universum published a new edition with an improved picture and the uncut original version as a bonus. Also in 2012, the film was released along with the three sequels in HD on Blu-ray. In addition to the shortened German version, the complete Italian original version was also included here.
Trivia
- The car that Ferdinando Scarano drives is a Lamborghini Espada .
- During the chase, the car confiscated by Commissioner Rizzo is a Fiat 130 Coupé .
- In contrast to the other Flatfoot films, Bud Spencer was also dubbed in the original version in this film. Glauco Onorato lent him the voice.
- The outdoor shots in Naples were disturbed by residents until the director paid 100,000 lire to the Camorra .
Web links
- They called him flat foot in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- They called him Flatfoot in the German dubbing files
- They called him Flatfoot in the Spencer / Hill database
Individual evidence
- ↑ They called him Flatfoot in the German version of the Internet Movie Database . Retrieved November 12, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.spencerhilldb.de/film.php?film=15
- ↑ They called him Flatfoot. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ They called him Flatfoot in the German dubbing files
- ↑ cut report on schnittberichte.com
- ↑ Bud Spencer: My Life, My Films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2011. p. 163.
- ↑ Bud Spencer: My Life, My Films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2011. p. 164.