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Put on your boots, stock up on
beans, and practice your slapstick: the most
popular duo from 1970s and 1980s cinema is back,
in a beautiful book lovingly crafted over many
years by author Philippe Lombard.
In the early 1970s, from the dying embers of the
Italian Western, an unlikely duo emerged that
would enjoy huge success around the world, moving
from Western parodies to adventure comedies. The
on-screen chemistry between Carlo Pedersoli, a.k.a
Bud Spencer, and Mario Girotti, a.k.a. Terence
Hill sparked an incredibly popular cultural
phenomenon that lasted for almost 20 years. Their
films grossed hundreds of millions of movie
tickets around the globe. In Italy and Germany,
they became true icons. Public demand was so high
that producers even assembled another pair of
actors who looked roughly like them, who went on
to star in no fewer than five films!
Millions of us grew up with their films, from They
Call Me Trinity to the unforgettable Watch Out
We’re Mad, Crime Busters, Odd's and Evens, I’m for
the Hippopotamus, and Who Finds a Friend Finds a
Treasure, often discovered with our families in
the cinema and watched again and again on
television. The memory of these two big-hearted
rogues and their hilarious fights is still alive
and well in the hearts of several generations.
The Adventures of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill
recounts their career and recreates a bygone era
of popular cinema, when you could win the love of
audiences around the world by cracking jokes and
dishing out slaps like no one else!
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