Four for one Ave Maria
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| German title | Four for one Ave Maria | ||
| Original title | I quattro dell 'Ave Maria | ||
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| Country of production | Italy | ||
| original language | English , Italian | ||
| Publishing year | 1968 | ||
| length | 132 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 (previously 18) | ||
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| Director | Giuseppe Colizzi | ||
| script | Giuseppe Colizzi | ||
| production | Giuseppe Colizzi Crono Cinematografica SpA Rome San Marco SpA Rome |
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| music | Carlo Rustichelli | ||
| camera | Marcello Masciocchi | ||
| cut | Marcello Malvestito | ||
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Ace High (original title I quattro 'Ave Maria dell is) a spaghetti western - comedy from the year 1968th
action
The action continues immediately after the events from God forgives ... Django never! a. Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy are on their way to El Paso to collect the bounty on criminal Bill San Antonio and the reward for recovering the stolen $ 300,000. Before San Antonio died, he told Cat that there was a banker in town named Harold with whom he was collaborating. The two pay him a visit and get him to sign a check for a considerable sum.
Harold then sets the bandit Cacopoulos (Caco) in prison on their heels, whom he promises to be free for the money to be recovered. In a conversation between the two of them, it is learned that Harold and the criminals Paco and Drake were once Cacopoulos' comrades, but that they betrayed him after a robbery and that he has been in prison for the last 15 years. Instead of obeying Harold, Cacopoulos shoots him and plans a campaign of revenge. First he chases Cat and Hutch and steals their money from them. They find him again in a small town where Cacopoulos distributes the money. Cacopoulos tells them about Paco and Drake. To get their money back, the two reluctantly help him.
In a Mexican outpost in the mock trials for deserters are held Mexicans Paco presides. Together with a horde of Mexican scoundrels, whom Cat has promised a lot of money, the three manage to take the post. Cacopoulos shoots Paco in a duel. Then they make their way to Drake. They are betrayed again by Cacopoulos.
You will find Cacopoulos in the town of Fair City, where everything revolves around gambling. He has now gambled away the rest of Cats and Hutch's money in a casino. Cacopoulos tells the two of the suspicion of fraud in the casino. This is confirmed the following night, when Cat, Hutch, and an African-American friend and acrobat named Thomas break into the casino. Under the roof and in the basement you will find devices to determine the next number in roulette . Knowing this, they go to the casino the next evening. While Cat, Hutch and Thomas check the fixtures, Cacopoulos wins a fortune at the roulette table and breaks the bank. This draws Drake, the last of Cacopoulos' former comrades and casino manager, out of the reserve. In a shootout and duel that follows, the four can shoot all of Drake's men and wound Drake. However, Cacopoulos leaves him to the judiciary after the organized fraud was revealed to casino goers.
At the end of the film, Cat and Hutch have got their money back and ride off with Cacopoulos.
background
The film is the second part of a trilogy that forgives with God ... Django never! begins and ends with Mound of Bloody Boots . The film was released on DVD in the US under the title Ace High .
German versions
The film was dubbed in German twice. In 1969 the first German version was created for theatrical release at Berliner Synchron GmbH . The book was written by Gerhard Vorkamp and directed by Dietmar Behnke . This processing has been shortened by approx. 5 to 128 minutes, released from 18 and not available. It is neither broadcast on TV nor released on DVD.
In 1977 a second synchronization was again commissioned from Berliner Synchron GmbH . This time the script and dialogue direction were in the hands of Arne Elsholtz . In order to be approved for ages 16 and up, the film was shortened by action scenes to a length of approx. 122 minutes and enriched with more humor. Later TV broadcasts, all based on this version, were shortened even more and were finally approved from 12 onwards.
| actor | role | Cinema dubbing | Resynchronization |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terence Hill | Cat Stevens | Claus Jurichs | Thomas Danneberg |
| Bud Spencer | Hutch Bessy | Arnold Marquis | Wolfgang Hess |
| Eli Wallach | Cacopoulos | Gerd Martienzen | Martin Hirthe |
| Brock Peters | Thomas | Michael Chevalier | Joachim Kemmer |
| Kevin McCarthy | Drake | Heinz Petruo | Jürgen Thormann |
| Steffen Zacharias | Mr. Harold | Curt Ackermann | Eric Vaessen |
| Tiffany Hoyveld | Thomas' wife | Traudel Haas | Marianne Lutz |
Reviews
- “Rough jokes for canned beer evenings”… “coarse but effective parody of Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western”. (TV feature film)
- “An entertaining Italian western with an episodic plot full of Don Quixottery. The showdown is particularly well staged, the script is often very funny, and Giuseppe Colizzi shows - even if only sporadically - a keen eye for moods and details ”. (Monthly Film Bulletin)
- “The best of the three extremely successful and original westerns by Giuseppe Colizzi with a pleasant Carlo Rustichelli score”. (Ulrich P. Bruckner)
- Joe Hembus states that with four for an Ave Maria, the director and the leading actors showed the Spaghetti Western its future as a fun Western. The film "always comes up with amusing surprises", Colizzi has mastered "the art of preparing the viewer for something very terrible in order to then please him with something terribly funny".
DVD release
In 2012 the film was first released on DVD by Paramount Pictures .
Web links
- Ace High in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Four for an Ave Maria at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Four for an Ava Maria in the Spencer / Hill database
- ↑ Four for an Ave Maria. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Tobias Hohmann: Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Two heaven dogs with four fists. MPW-Verlag 2001. ISBN 978-3-931608-98-9 , pp. 85-89
- ↑ Four for an Ave Maria. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Four for one Ave Maria ; The TV version was cut on schnittberichte.com , 117 minutes is the length of the DVD with PAL speedup , at the original speed it would be 122 minutes,
- ↑ quoted in: Joe Hembus: Western-Lexikon - 1272 films from 1894-1975. Carl Hanser Verlag Munich Vienna 2nd edition 1977. ISBN 3-446-12189-7 . P. 660
- ↑ Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses - The Italo-Western from its beginnings to today. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2006. ISBN 3-89602-705-0 . P. 633
- ^ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon - 1272 films from 1894 to 1975. Carl Hanser Verlag Munich Vienna 2nd edition 1977. ISBN 3-446-12189-7 . P. 660