Dollaro di fifa, Un

Un dollaro di fifa (Italy 1960 / Director: Giorgio Simonelli)

Also known as

Dos valientes a la fuerza (Spain) | A Dollar of Funk | A Dollar of Fear | Um Dólar De Medo / Xerifes De Araque (Brazil)

Synopsis

Two conmen, Alamo and Mike, arrive by chance in Paradise City, a town that has become so dangerous that it is now called Danger City. They are mistaken for two famous gunmen who are supposed to restore law and order. Backed by the courageous Perkins sisters, Alice and Sara, the two reluctantly set about fulfilling their task. Comic mayhem ensues …

Credits

Cast (Italian opening credits): Ugo Tognazzi (Alamo), Walter Chiari (Mike), Mario Carotenuto (sheriff), Hélène Chanel (Alice Perkins), Leonora Ruffo (Sara Perkins), Dominique Boschero (Sherry, saloon singer), Aroldo Tieri (mayor), Arturo Dominici (Spiritual, black-clad gunslinger), Renzo Palmer (the mayor’s bearded right-hand man), Mimmo Poli (the mayor’s mustachioed factotum), Renato Mambor (Hurricane, black-clad gunslinger), Nando Angelini (unidentified role), Bruno Pagliani (unidentified role), Giorgio Cerioni (Spiritual’s short-lived affiliate), Nino Musco (clerk of the court), Giorgio Zuccaro (unidentified role), Ignazio Balsamo (ill-fated poker player), Gina Mascetti (Native American woman), Manlio Salvatori [misspelled as Salvatore] (Native American chief), Giovanni Vari (townsman O’Brien)

Director: Giorgio Simonelli
Story: Mario Guerra
Screenplay: Mario Guerra, Giulio Scarnicci, Renzo Tarabusi
Cinematography: Tino Santoni [Eastmancolor]
Music: Gianni Ferrio
Songs: Mara Gabor, Tony Renis, Quartetto 2 + 2 (Nora Orlandi et al.)
Production: Emo Bistolfi, Renato Tonini

Reviews

Film review by Simon Gelten

Trivia

The film’s title, meaning “a dollar of fear,” is a spoof on Un dollaro di onore (“a dollar of honor”), the Italian title of Howard Hawks’s Rio Bravo (1959).