A Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way.A Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way.A Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way.
- Gen. Mongo Álvarez
- (as Francisco Bódalo)
- Mexican Colonel
- (as Edoardo Fajardo)
- Casino Croupier
- (as Luigi Pernice)
- John's Henchman
- (as Giovanni Pulone)
- Mongo Henchman
- (uncredited)
- Mongo Henchman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTomas Milian improvised the song about Franco Nero's blue eyes for the scene in which he cuts the rope while Nero is standing on a barrel.
- GoofsWhen El Vasco (Tomas Milian) tear open the blouse of Lola (Iris Berben) to reveal her breasts, the tan lines from a Bikini are clearly visible.
- Quotes
Yolof Peterson: Excuse me, but your mother is a prostitute, your father is a crook, and your grandfather is a man with a very broad buttocks.
Pepito Tigrero: What?
Yolof Peterson: Allow me to explain. Your mother is a whore, your father is a damn thief, and your grandfather is a notorious fag.
[Yolof punches Pepito out]
Yolof Peterson: I generously spared your sister...
- ConnectionsEdited into Colpiti al cuore (2019)
- SoundtracksVamos A Matar Compañeros (Titoli)
Music composed by Ennio Morricone
Lyrics by Sergio Corbucci & Bruno Corbucci
Performed by Cantori Moderni Di Alessandroni
Sergio Leone will always be the name everyone associates with spaghetti westerns but Sergio Corbucci's contribution to the genre deserves great recognition. People usually always mention Django and The Great Silence when talking about Corbucci's westerns but Companeros is perhaps his best work.
Companeros is a much lighter film than the aforementioned. Like most Corbucci westerns there is a political undertone to the film and the plot revolves around the Mexican revolution (similar to A Professional Gun which Corbucci directed 2 years earlier). Che Guevara look-a-like Thomas Milian is superb as the comical revolutionary Vasco and Corbucci regular Franco Nero is excellent as his ultra-cool Swedish mercenary partner. Add to the mix a marijuana-smoking psychopath played by Jack Palance and you have one explosive concoction of a western. Pulling all this together is another masterful score by the legendary Ennio Morricone. I guarantee you will still be singing the theme tune a week later!
I rate this as one of the best Westerns of all time. It's a really fun film and an absolute must for fans of the Spaghetti genre.
- Indio500
- Mar 19, 2004
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Details
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $20,000
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1