''Madigan's Millions'' (, ) is a 1968 Italian-Spanish
comedy
Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium.
Origins
Comedy originated in ancient Greec ...
crime film
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directed by
Stanley Prager and produced by
Sidney W. Pink.
The movie was shot in 1966, but was not released for two years. It stars
Dustin Hoffman in his first movie role, as Jason Fister, a young
U.S. Treasury Dept. official sent to
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...
to recover a large sum of money owed to the United States government by a deceased mobster.
The film is in the lowbrow comedy genre, with comic
stop-action chase scenes, as well as many scenes involving
spaghetti Western
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-style gunplay on the streets of Rome. Hoffman's Fister is a naive and mild-mannered bureaucrat with a sense for sniffing out phonies.
The interiors of the film were shot largely in
Spain
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, with exteriors in Rome.
Plot
Cast
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Dustin Hoffman – Jason Fister
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Elsa Martinelli
Elsa Martinelli (born Elisa Tia; 30 January 1935 – 8 July 2017) was an Italian actress and fashion model. Described by ''The Guardian'' as a "versatile star of Hollywood’s international years whose work spanned romantic comedies, period epi ...
– Vic Shaw
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Cesar Romero – Mike Madigan
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Gustavo Rojo – Lt. Arco
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Fernando Hilbeck – Burke
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Riccardo Garrone – Cirini
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Franco Fabrizi – Caronda
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Umberto Raho – Photographer
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Gérard Tichy – J. P. Ogilvie
Release
The film was released in the United States by
American International Pictures in 1969, after Hoffman's success in ''
The Graduate
''The Graduate'' is a 1967 American independent romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novella by Charles Webb. It stars Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddoc ...
'' and ''
Midnight Cowboy''.
See also
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Who's Minding the Mint?'' (1967)
External links
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References
1968 films
Films set in Italy
Spanish crime comedy films
Italian crime comedy films
Films produced by Sidney W. Pink
English-language Italian films
English-language Spanish films
1960s English-language films
1960s Italian films
1960s Spanish films
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