Even Angels Eat Beans

Anche gli angeli mangiano fagioli

Italy, France, Spain

1973

118 Min

Color

2.35:1

Italian

Currently 2.7/5 Stars.
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SCR Enzo Barboni, Tulio Demicheli, J. Fortini, Ángel G. Gauna, Marie Claire Solleville

CAST Giuliano Gemma, Bud Spencer, Robert Middleton, Víctor Israel, Lara Sender, Bill Vanders, Riccardo Pizzuti, Steffen Zacharias, George Rigaud, Francy Fair, Fortunato Arena, Enrico Chiappafreddo, Margherita Horowitz, Denise Bataille, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Gérard Landry, Patrik Morin, Claudio Ruffini, Marcello Verziera

MUSIC Guido De Angelis, Maurizio De Angelis

Two nice guys, a wrestler (Bud Spencer) and an Ice-cream vendor (Giuliano Gemma) are mistaken for dangerous killers by an important local gangster, whose nickname is “Sorriso”. With the help of many funny coincidences they play along with Sorriso “working” for him, just to survive, but, when they receive the order to butcher the components of a very indigent family they are unmasked and… —IMDb

Director

Enzo Barboni

Enzo Barboni (July 10, 1922 – March 23, 2002), sometimes credited by his pseudonym E.B. Clucher, was an Italian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter. Born in Rome, he is mostly notable for his slapstick comedies starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.

After he had served as a war correspondent on Eastern Front of World War II he moved on to become a camera operator.

In 1961 he advanced to a career as cinematographer, including films like Spaghetti Western Django by Sergio Corbucci, with whom he had worked together since his sword-and-sandal films.

From 1970 onwards Barboni started his career as a director, using the pseudonym E. B. Clucher. After a more serious start he soon gained a reputation as the inventor of a slapstic form of spaghetti western.

In 1967 he worked on the music western Little Rita nel west, featuring Rita Pavone and Terence Hill, who moved on from Karl May movies to his new career in the spaghetti western genre. Afterwards Barboni… read more