A GENIUS, TWO PARTNERS AND A DUPE - CLIP
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Published 2010-08-17
Un genio, due compari, un pollo / A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe / Nobody ist der Größte
Italy / France / West Germany 1975
Director: Damiano Damiani
With Terence Hill, Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois, Patrick McGoohan, Raimund Harmstorf, Piero Vida, Rik Battaglia, Klaus Kinski, Mario Brega
Screenplay: Damiano Damiani, Fulvio Morsella, Ernesto Gastaldi
Cinematography: Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Music: Ennio Morricone
An amiable con man sets out to land a big score from a man even less honorable than himself in this comic spaghetti western. Joe Thanks (Terence Hill) is a swindler and quick-draw artist who wanders into a dusty little town after literally falling out of a stagecoach while asleep. After besting card-sharp Doc Foster (Klaus Kinski) in a public shootout, Joe reconnects with his old friend, Steam Engine Bill (Robert Charlebois), who is traveling with his beautiful but dizzy-headed girlfriend, Lucy (Miou-Miou). Joe has learned that an officer in the U.S. Cavalry, is escorting a $300,000 fortune that's been earmarked for Indian relief efforts; however, the commanding officer of the local fort, Major Cabot (Patrick McGoohan) has no intention of actually delivering the cash, so Joe hatches a scheme to take it for himself.
While his name does not appear in the credits, Sergio Leone had produced Un Genio, Due Compari, Un Pollo (aka A Genius, Two Partners, and a Dupe) via his shareholding on the production company Rafran, and also directed the pre-credit sequence (which bears a few of his directing trademarks without being anything special), with Damiano Damiani helming the rest of the picture and receiving the screen credit. "It was an amusing script, directed by someone with no sense of humour at all" (producer Fulvio Morsella).
In contrast to My Name Is Nobody, Leone never got suspected of being the actual director, and most probably also never wanted to be. "The film disappointed me so much that I decided to produce no more westerns" (Sergio Leone).
All Comments (21)
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Love All Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill movies They do it All! Good wholesome Entertainment
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"You're gonna be the deadest man that ever lived." That line always made me laught
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Klaus and Hill, only our generation knows how epic this is
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The hunchback just doesn't get a break
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Terence Hill is the best! He is a legend!
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Old is gold. I miss that time and that time will never come back 😪 Childhood memories cowboys ❤
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Watched the Trinity series when I was a kid. Have DVD's now. I have not seen everything Terence Hill has been in, nor Bud Spencer, but both actors are cool. Hill has a swagger, cool, chill, totally assured of things just working out, love his presence and attitude.
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THIS GUY WAS MY FAVORITE..He actually looked like my 👨 Dads twin ..❤
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Klaus Kinski in a Spaghetti Western ? Ya gotta be kidding me ! Fantastic ! ❤️👍🎬🎥
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Reliving childhood memories, thanks fer it.🤠
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Kinski's superb as always!
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both of these guys are great but Terrence Hill is like none other .
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Kinski, what a memorable actor
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Terence Hill and Bud Spencer were the best!! I saw all their movies, even the one when they go to Rio de Janeiro to impersonate two brothers that looked like them.
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Didn't recognize Terrence without all the dirt and ragged clothes.
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Klaus always a great villain
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Klaus kinsky was such a serious and temperamental dude, seems odd he'd be in this
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Some fine Morricone score in that movie!
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That one guy's got a Clockwork Orange thing going. "Right, right, partners, shall we have a glass of the old knify moloko before we deal the next hand?"
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Klaus freakin' Kinski, awesome!
