50th Anniversary of the premier of “The Crazy Bunch”

 

Today marks the 50^th anniversary of the premier of “The Crazy Bunch” directed by Anthony Ascott and starring George Hilton and Cris Huerta. It tells the story of Tressette (George Hilton) who is out to recover $100,000 in gold stolen from Frisco Joe (Riccardo Garrone) on a wagon train to Yuma. The money has been taken by Frank Faina (Enzo Maggio) and the inept Poison (Tony Norton). Faina puts the money in a bank safety deposit box and hides himself and the key in an insane asylum. Tressette must get his hands on the key, but he and his partner Bambi (Cris Huerta) have a few tricks up their sleeve, such as a gun that fires when he whistles, a birthday cake stuffed with dynamite and best of all a huge club. With all this on their side you just know they will succeed in the end.

The film took in 88,280 lire and ranks 404^th on the list of most profitable Spaghetti westerns shown in Italy.

 

Di Tressette ce n’è uno, tutti gli altri son nessuno – Italian title

Continuavano a chiamarlo tressette… bussava solo a batoni – Italian title

Dicky Luft Em Sacramento – Brazilian title

Vestes skore kugler – Danish title

Villi Joukko – Finnish title

Kiero Dick ja lännen villi porukka – Finnish title

Dick Lufte in Sacramento – German title

Der Dicke, das Schlitzohr und drei Halleluja – German title

Vestens Villeste Gutter  - Norwegian title

Galningarna – Swedish title

The Crazy Bunch – English title

 

A 1974 Italian film production [Dania Film (Rome)]

Producers: Luciano Martino, Mino Loy

Director: Anthony Ascott (Giuliano Carnimeo)

Story: Tito Carpi (Fiorenzo Carpi)

Screenplay: Tito Carpi (Fiorenzo Carpi)

Cinematography: Emilio Foriscot, Federico Zanni [Eastmancolor, Techniscope]

Music: Alessandro Alessandroni

Running time: 95 minutes

Cast:

Tresette/Tricky Dicky - George Hilton (Jorge Acosta y Lara)

Bambi/ Paco - Cris Huerta (Crisanto Brieva)

Poison/Veleno/Twinkle Toes - Tony Norton (Antonio Monselesan)

Letto - Memmo Carotenuto (Guglielmo Carotenuto)

Carlo Stryker - Nello Pazzafini (Giovanni Pazzafini)

‘Pimple Nose’ Stryker – Sergio Smacchi

Marmalade Stryker – Pietro Torrisi

Pink Eye Stryker - Artemio Antonini

Bald Stryker brother - Puccio Ceccarelli (Pietro Ceccarelli)

Stryker brother – Aldo Cecconi

Frisco Joe/Tutti Frutti - Riccardo Garrone

Pete Brambilla – Franco Narducci (Francesco Narducci)

Bank director - Renato Baldini

Bank cashier - Alfonso Giganti

Smith - Valentino Simeoni

Mrs. Smith – Maria De Sista

Drakeman - Dante Maggio

Hank - Riccardo Petrazzi

Grizzly – Aldo Pediinotti

Goldilocks - Veriano Ginesi (Voriano Ginesi)

Hook - Freddy Unger (Goffredo Unger)

Slim Proportions/Frank Faina/Frank the High-Handed Fairy - Enzo Maggio (Vincenzo

     Maggio)

Asylum director - Umberto D’Orsi

Asylum director’s assistant - Gino Pagnani (Luigi Fusconi)

Doctor - Furio Meniconi

Asylum servant – Dante Cleri

Sheriff - Renzo Pevarello

Cactus River horseman – Giglio Giglo (Pio Giglio)

Camp card players – Ettore Arena, Oscar Giustini, Fortunato Arena

Asylum murderers - Sergio Ukmar, Ottorino Polentini

Man trying to leave Strikers Ranch – Giulio Mauroni

'Statue of Liberty' - Ennio Colajanni

With: Oscar Giustini, Nicola Pistoia