Boot Hill [La Collina degli Stivali] ** (1969, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Woody Strode, Lionel Stander, Woody Strode, Victor Buono, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 9730

Writer-director Giuseppe Colizzi’s violent 1969 Spaghetti Western film Boot Hill [La Collina degli Stivali] has too much broad, off-target comedy and offers yet another popular, if easily resistible pairing of Terence Hill (as Cat Stevens!) and Bud Spencer (as Hutch Bessy), who do their likeable rogue stuff to please their fans.

But it is boosted by a rare team of American veteran visitors (Lionel Stander, Woody Strode, Victor Buono and Eduardo Ciannelli).

In Colizzi’s screenplay, a fugitive from jail hides out in a circus to await his two buddies who will help him to take revenge on outlaws with the help of the circus performers and townsfolk led by Stevens’s friend Finch (Glauco Onorato). This motley crew then set out to destroy evil small Western town boss Honey Fisher (Buono) and his henchmen.

Also in the cast are George Eastman, Leslie Bailey, Maurizio Manetti, Dante Cleri, Glauco Onorato and Romano Puppo.

Woody Strode was paid $75,000 for 10 weeks work, but only $1,000 a week for The Professionals three years earlier.

Boot Hill [La Collina degli Stivali] is directed by Giuseppe Colizzi, runs 100 minutes or 87 minutes (US), is made by San Marco, Cronocinematografica S.p.a. and B.R.C. Produzione S.r.l., is released by Euro International Film (1969) (Italy) and Film Ventures International (1972) (US) (cut and dubbed), is written by Giuseppe Colizzi, is shot in Technicolor and Techniscope by Marcello Masciocchi, is produced by Manolo Bolognini and is scored by Carlo Rustichelli.

It was shot in the studio in Rome and at Almería, Andalucía, Spain.

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