We Are No Angels (1975 film)
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''We Are No Angels'' ( it, Noi non siamo angeli) is a 1975 Italian
comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Gianfranco Parolini Gianfranco Parolini (20 February 1925 in Rome, Italy – 26 April 2018 in Rome, Italy) was an Italian film director. He is often credited as Frank Kramer. Among his films are '' The Sabata Trilogy'', several sword and sandal films, most of the Ko ...
and starring Michael Coby and
Paul L. Smith Paul Lawrence Smith (June 24, 1936 – April 25, 2012) was an American-Israeli actor. Burly, bearded and imposing, he appeared in feature films and occasionally on television since the 1970s, generally playing "heavies" and bad guys. His most no ...
.


Plot

In the United States of the twenties of the twentieth century, Raphael McDonald is a boxer who fights in some matches being assisted by his brother and works as a mechanic in their own workshop. So when Angel keeps the money Raphael won in his meeting with Black Bull for himself and shows up for work with a new car, an argument occurs between the two in which Raphael is convinced that Angel spent the money while Angel replies that for to earn a lot of it must be invested in more profitable activities. Meanwhile, in the western town called Highfalls, a confrontation takes place between the progressives and the conservatives supported by the bad Mr. Shark who hides his personal interests behind the principle of tradition and so the mayor, tired of the continuous dispute, announces a race between cars and carriages, the former represent progress and the others tradition. On the idea of Angel, who manages to convince Raphael, the two go to get Professor Arcangelo and then go to Highfalls and when they arrive in the town square Raphael meets Willy, a lively child who shakes his hand by pricking his palm with thorns and while Angel meets the look of the young Evelyn who returns his every look even as they walk away. Angel's car, however, is not well seen by Shark's men who begin to smear it and this causes the two brothers to start a fight that ends after Raphael sends everyone to the back of a truck that takes them away and so the two brothers, Professor Arcangelo, Willy and Evelyn go for lunch to Linda Sutton, that is the mother of Evelyn as well as of Willy and little sister Polly. Between small attacks by Shark's men and the numerous teasing of Willy and his little sister Polly, who often make Raphael run (and angry), the first contacts and kisses take place between Angel and Evelyn but unfortunately also Angel (who this time drank the purge of Willy after Raphael) has to run to the bathroom like his brother. Sark's men, however, arrive in large numbers in the city and begin to demolish a wagon of Angel's transport company which, playing on the susceptibility of his brother (still angry with him) manages to make him help him to defeat them in a new fight that involves golf and baseball shots. Raphael, who is still looking for the money he won in the boxing match and which Angel has hidden, first finds a banknote during the fight and then the whole swag inside a music case and keeps it to himself, until he enters a warehouse and finds himself again in front of Black Bull with whom he starts a fight and with whom he soon decides to stop to respect each other. Raphael also does not give in to Angel's requests interested in investing his money and decides to return to town with Black Bull but Polly and Willy, crying, inform him that Shark's men have kidnapped and cooked their little lamb and he attacks them. generating a new brawl which, after degenerating, also involves the two progressive and conservative factions of the country. The opportunity for the smart Angel to take his brother's money has thus presented itself and in fact he takes advantage of a moment in which Raphael is in contact with several men and throws himself into the fight managing to take the money that he then uses to buy land. But the little lamb still bleats and this makes it clear that Willy and Polly's latest joke was organized by Angel and once he understood that his money is also gone, he doesn't have time to attack his brother who is challenged by Black Bull. in a challenge between two cars and to be raced in the race against the carriages previously called. Angel and Raphael, however, are unable to start because their car now lacks the engine and so Angel shows Raphael the invention of Professor Arcangelo (a hang glider) and through it they fly towards the end of the race course being first seen by Black Bull, who admired decides to go astray to favor them. Landed near the finish line, they approach a barn where Angel had hidden another car and with that they win the race. In the final Angel and Raphael quarrel again ending up in the previously purchased land and in a hole near a well where Professor Arcangelo found oil.


Cast

* Michael Coby as Angel *
Paul L. Smith Paul Lawrence Smith (June 24, 1936 – April 25, 2012) was an American-Israeli actor. Burly, bearded and imposing, he appeared in feature films and occasionally on television since the 1970s, generally playing "heavies" and bad guys. His most no ...
as Raphael *
John Ireland John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in ''All the King's Men'' (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Oscar nomin ...
as Mr. Shark *
Woody Strode Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode (July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994) was an American athlete and actor. He was a decathlete and football star who was one of the first Black American players in the National Football League in the postwar era. Aft ...
as lack Bill *
Renato Cestiè Renato Cestiè (born January 11, 1963) is a former Italian film actor. He was Italy's top child star of the 1970s. His best-known work was in tear-jerkers such as ''The Last Snows of Spring'', where he would play a neglected child who, most ofte ...
as Willy * Fiona Florence as Linda Sutton * Evelin Kaye as Evelyn Sutton * Franco Pesce as Professor Berberg * Fausta Avelli as Polly *
John Bartha János Bartha (6 February 1915 – 1991), better known as John Bartha, was a Hungarian film actor who appeared primarily in Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960s and 1970s. He is probably most recognizable in western cinema for his role as the Sheriff ...
as Sheriff


See also

*
List of Italian films of 1975 A list of films produced in Italy in 1975 (see 1975 in film): Footnotes References * * * * External linksItalian films of 1975at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian Films Of 1975 1975 Films A film al ...


References


External links

*{{IMDb title Films directed by Gianfranco Parolini Italian buddy comedy films 1970s buddy comedy films 1975 comedy films 1975 films 1970s Italian films