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Directed by | Giuliano Carnimeo |
Screenplay by | Pier Luigi Alberti Gabriella Giustini |
Story by | Pier Luigi Alberti Ugo Tucci Gabriella Giustini |
Produced by | Ugo Tucci |
Starring | Paul Smith Michael Coby Dominic Barto Jacques Herlin Giuseppe Maffioli |
Cinematography | Sebastiano Celeste |
Edited by | Amedeo Giomini |
Music by | JUNIPER |
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Language | Italian |
The Diamond Peddlers (Italian : Il vangelo secondo Simone e Matteo, also known as Diamond Pedlars) is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Giuliano Carnimeo and starring Paul Smith and Michael Coby, a comedic duo teamed with the purpose of copying the successful films of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. [1] [2] It is structured as a sequel to previous year's Convoy Buddies . [3]
Toby and Butch, working as pack carriers in Africa, pick up a gun, are mistaken for criminals and find themselves being chased by military police through marketplace stalls. They hide in a village church, dress in priestly cassocks and are tasked with delivering a statue of the Virgin Mary to Amsterdam. The statue is filled with diamonds which the duo unknowingly smuggle through customs and are chased through the city's streets and canals, with the diamond-filled pouch ultimately landing in the path of a roller-compactor and being crushed into dust while Toby and Butch, still in their clerical robes, continue running from their pursuers.