Madigan's Millions
Madigan's Millions (It: Un dollaro per 7 vigliacchi, Sp: El Millón de Madigan) is a 1968 Italian-Spanish comedy crime film directed by Stanley Prager and produced by Sidney W. Pink.
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Directed by | Stanley Prager |
Produced by | Sidney W. Pink |
Written by | José Luis Bayonas |
Starring | Dustin Hoffman Elsa Martinelli Cesar Romero |
Cinematography | Manuel Rojas |
Distributed by | Altamira Films (Spain) (theatrical) American International Pictures (USA) (theatrical) Troma Entertainment (Home Video) |
Release date | 1968 |
Running time | 86 mins 93 mins (Spain) |
Country | Italy Spain United States |
Language | English |
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 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-style gunplay on the streets of Rome. Hoffman's Fister is a seemingly naive and mild-mannered bureaucrat with a sense for sniffing out phonies.
The interiors of the film were shot largely in Spain, with exteriors in Rome.
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman – Jason Fister
- Elsa Martinelli – Vic Shaw
- Cesar Romero – Mike Madigan
- Gustavo Rojo – Lt. Arco
- Fernando Hilbeck – Burke
- Riccardo Garrone – Cirini
- Franco Fabrizi – Caronda
- Umberto Raho – Photographer
- 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 and Midnight Cowboy.[1]
See also
- Who's Minding the Mint? (1967)