How to Kill 400 Duponts

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How to Kill 400 Duponts
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Directed by Steno
Story by Castellano & Pipolo
Starring Johnny Dorelli
Cinematography Mario Capriotti [1]
Edited by Ornella Micheli [1]
Music by Franco Pisano [1]
Production
companies
  • Inter Jet Film
  • Mega Film [1]
Release date
  • 1967 (1967)
Running time
96 minutes [1]
CountryItaly [1]

How to Kill 400 Duponts (Italian : Arrriva Dorellik) is a 1967 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. The main character of the film, Dorellik, is a parody of the comic series Diabolik . The character was created in the late 60s for several sketches on television. [2] [3]

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Plot

Dorellik, an Italian contract killer who lives on the French Riviera accepts a job to kill everyone named Dupont in France for a rich customer who expects to receive a large inheritance.

Cast

Production

How to Kill 400 Duponts was a film starring popular singer and television host Johnny Dorelli. [4] The Italian title Arriva Dorellik made reference to Dorelli's character Dorellik, which premiered on his television show Johnny Sera . [4]

Release

How to Kill 400 Duponts was released in Italy in 1967. [1] Producer Dino De Laurentiis had been producing a film based on the Diabolik fumetti neri series and sued the producers of How to Kill 400 Duponts over their original title Dorellik, which led to the film being re-titled Arriva Dorellik (lit. Here Comes Dorellik) just before the film's release. [4] Terry-Thomas, who played a starring role in Arriva Dorellik, also ended up guest-starring in De Laurentiis' Danger: Diabolik .

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References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Curti 2016, p. 71.
  2. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN   8876055932.
  3. ↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN   8860736269.
  4. 1 2 3 Curti 2016, p. 72.

Sources

  • Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN   978-1-936168-60-6.


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