''... All The Way, Boys!'' (aka it, italic=yes, ... Più forte ragazzi! and Plane Crazy) is a 1973

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adventure film directed by

Giuseppe Colizzi Giuseppe Colizzi (28 June 1925 – 23 August 1978) was an Italian film director, writer and producer. Colizzi was best known for his spaghetti westerns starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill. Filmography * ''Beautiful Families'' (1964) * '' ...

. The film stars the popular comedy team of

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and

Bud Spencer Carlo Pedersoli (31 October 1929 – 27 June 2016), known professionally as Bud Spencer, was an Italian actor, professional swimmer and water polo player. He was known for action-comedy and Spaghetti Western roles with his long-time film partn ...

. The duo made 18 films together, most in the Spaghetti Western genre, but ''... All The Way, Boys!'' was the first film set in a modern context, although many other slapstick elements of the earlier films were carried over. ) (1971) was the first film that the comedy team made that departed from the western formula.Hughes 2011, p. 255., group=Note

Plot

Salud (

) and Plata (

) eke out a living as bush pilots in South America. Beside carrying a few passengers and a small amount of cargo, their most lucrative activity is in faking aircraft crashes, on behalf of Salud's brother ( Alexander Allerson), who will be able to collect the insurance money. Flying over the

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on another flight, the two pilots crash for real in the middle of the

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-infested jungle. In a native village, they meet Matto (

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), an old man who takes Salud to see a mountain and tells him the story of three friends who killed each other. There, the duo find an emerald mining operation run by the unscrupulous Mr. Ears (

Reinhard Kolldehoff Reinhard Kolldehoff (29 April 1914 – 18 November 1995) was a German film actor. He appeared in 140 films between 1941 and 1988. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * '' The Gasman'' (1941) - Polizeibeamter (uncr ...

). Ears dictates prices on the black market, uses thugs to keep out competitors, and keeps his workers as slave labor. Plata and Salud decide they will confront Ears, using aircraft to deliver their goods, and offering the natives a much better life. Wanting to fly Matto to Salvador, where he would live in a modern city, Plata and Salud take the old man and his dog along with them, but he passes away on the flight. Plata finds a large emerald tied to a cord that Matto wore. In Salvador, the two inept crooks try to cash in on their find, but end up in jail. After a successful breakout, the pair find themselves pitted against the ruthless Ears, but in the end, right prevails.

Cast

as Plata *

as Salud *

as Mr. Ears *

Riccardo Pizzuti Riccardo Pizzuti (born 28 May 1934) is an Italian actor and stuntman. He is known for playing the role of gunfighter Morton Clayton in the 1972 film ''Man of the East''. Pizzuti appeared in '' They Call Me Trinity'', and its sequel '' Trinity Is ...

as Naso * Carlos Muñoz as Augusto * as Puncher * Sergio Bruzzichini as Pilot *

as Matto * Alexander Allerson as Salud's brother * Ferdinando Murolo as Man in jungle, searching for beer * Michel Antoine as Daveira * Antoine Saint-John as One of Mr. Ears gang (as Antoine St. John)

Production

''... All the Way, Boys!'' was shot in Colombia, including scenes set at the Medellín airport. The aircraft that were utilized were:

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, Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina,

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, Douglas DC-3,

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and

Piper PA-24 Comanche The Piper PA-24 Comanche is an American four-seat or six-seat, low-wing, all-metal, light aircraft of semimonocoque construction with tricycle retractable landing gear. Piper Aircraft designed and developed the Comanche, which first flew on Ma ...

Reception

In trying to reach a more international audience, the original 120-minute Italian version () of ''... All the Way, Boys!'' was re-edited into a 90-minute version and re-dubbed into English with dialogue and post-synchronization by Gene Luotto. The resultant release did not receive positive reviews, with film Historian Howard Hughes noting that ".. the resultant incoherence doesn't help the sluggish narrative." Jim Craddock in ''Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever'' said, "The "Trinity cast up to no good ... crash-land a plane in the Andes, in the hope of finding slapstick, but found none."

Awards

''... All the Way, Boys!'' won the Golden Screen award at the 1973 Golden Screen, Germany and the Silver Ribbon for Best Score (''Migliore Musica'') by Guido De Angelis and Maurizio De Angelis from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 1973."Awards: 'All the Way Boys'."
''IMDb''. Retrieved: April 14, 2017.

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

* Craddock, Jim, ed. ''Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever''. Detroit: Visible Ink: 2001. . * Hughes, Howard. ''Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult''. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. .

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:All The Way Boys 1972 films Italian adventure comedy films 1970s Italian-language films 1970s adventure comedy films Terence Hill and Bud Spencer Films directed by Giuseppe Colizzi Films scored by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis Italian aviation films Films set in Colombia Films set in Brazil Films about mining Films shot in Colombia 1972 comedy films 1970s Italian films Italian action comedy films