THE RETURN OF SHANGHAI JOE

Che botte ragazzi – Italian title

Il ritorno di Shanghai Joe – Italian title
Retirno di Shanghai Joe – Italian title
Zwei durch dick und dünn – German title
The Return of Shanghai Joe – English title
 
A 1974 Italian, German co-production [C.B.A. (Rome), Divina Film (Madrid)]
Producers: Ennio Onorati, Gerd Scheede
Director: Bitto Albertini (Adalberto Albertini)
Story: Mariano Caiano, Luigi Russo
Screenplay: Bitto Albertini (Adalberto Albertini), Carlo Alberto Alfieri
Cinematography: Pier Luigi Santi [Telecolor]
Music: Mario Chiari
Song: “Shanghai Joe” sung by Dream Bags (Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizi, Vicenzo Tempera)
Running time: 90 minutes

Cast:

Shanghai Joe – Chen Lie (Ernest Van-Mohr)
Bill Cannon – Tommy Polgár (Tomasso Polgár)
Pat Barnes – Klaus Kinski (Nikolaus Malkaszynski)
Judge Finney – Tom Felleghy (Tamás Fellegi)
Carol Finney – Karin Field
Sheriff Wilson – Fortunato Arena
Manuel – Claudio Giorgi (Claudio Giorgiutti)
Mexican elder – Attilio Dottesio
Jeff – Paolo Casella
Manuel’s father – Consalvo dell’Arti
Stagecoach driver - Gennarino Pappagalli
Townswoman – Ines Pellegrini (Macia Pellegrini)
With: Fausto Ulisse, Primiano Muratori, Paul Sholer, Milano Caiano, Luigi Russo, Nguen Duong, Claudio Ruffini, Chen Hsin (Hsin Chen), Chiang Ling, Rick Boyd (Federico Boido), Dante Cleri, Renato Malavasi, Roberto dell’Acqua, Riccardo Petrazzi, Renzo Pevarello, Osiride Pevarelloi, Pietro Torrisi, Elio Angelucci, Franco Ukmar, Giovanni Ukmar, Oskar Giustini, Alberto Donadeo

Two rogues, Shanghai Joe and his partner a traveling salesman, help a Mexican village defend its newly discovered oil deposits from a crooked businessman. In the end the town boss Barnes turns out to be the villain and is unmasked and defeated.