Carambola (film)

Carambola!
Italian theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ferdinando Baldi
Screenplay by	Mino Roli Nico Ducci Ferdinando Baldi
Story by	Mino Roli Nico Ducci
Produced by	Armando Todaro
Starring	Paul Smith Michael Coby
Cinematography	Aiace Parolin
Edited by	Antonietta Zita
Music by	Franco Bixio Vince Tempera
Release date	1974 (1974)
Language	Italian

Carambola! (Italian : Carambola, also known as Strange Adventures of Coby and Ben) ^[1] is a 1974 Italian comedic Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Ferdinando Baldi. It was the first film starring the pair Paul Smith and Michael Coby, a duo formed by producer Manolo Bolognini with the purpose of copying the successful films of the duo Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. ^{[2] [1] [3]} It was followed by Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket . ^[1]

Plot

Coby, a former soldier and champion of pool and his gigantic and irascible friend Clem accepted, for $50.000, to investigate arms trafficking that would take place between the US and Mexico. The two devise a trick.

Cast

• Paul Smith as Clem
• Michael Coby as Coby ^[4]
• Horst Frank as Clydeson
• William Bogart as Kelly
• Pino Ferrara as sheriff
• Luciano Catenacci as Cpt. Howard Johnson
• Franco Fantasia as professor
• Pedro Sanchez as Mexican leader
• Melissa Chimenti as Pamela
• Gaetano Russo as billiard player
• Pietro Torrisi as murdered warden
• Carla Mancini c.s.c.
• Giovanni Pazzafini as Clydeson's henchman
• Gianlorenzo Bernini as Howard's helper
• Mike Morris
• Luigi Antonio Guerra c.s.c.

Uncredited

• Remo De Angelis as Lt. Stevens
• Fred Robsahm as Sinz, Howard's helper

See also

• List of Italian films of 1974

References

1. Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN   978-8804572770.
2. Hughes 2004, p. 238.
3. Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN   8860736269.
4. "Carambola (1974) directed by Ferdinando Baldi • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd". letterboxd.com.

Works cited

• Hughes, Howard (2004). Once Upon a Time in the Italian West . I. B. Tauris. ISBN   1-85043-430-1.

External links

• Carambola at IMDb