Watch Out, We're Mad! (...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo!) |
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Original DVD cover - Art by Renato Casaro
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Directed by | Marcello Fondato |
Produced by | Mario Cecchi Gori |
Written by |
Marcello Fondato Francesco Scardamaglia |
Starring |
Terence Hill Bud Spencer |
Music by | Oliver Onions |
Cinematography | Arturo Zavattini |
Edited by | Sergio Montanari Alfonso Santacana |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures (US) |
Release date
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March 29, 1974 (Italy) May 1976 (USA) |
Running time
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97 minutes |
Country | Italy Spain |
Language |
Italian English |
Watch Out, We're Mad! (Italian: ...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo!) is a 1974 Italian-Spanish international co-production action comedy starring the comedy team of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.
Somewhere in Spain, off-road race car driver Ben (Spencer) is anticipating the next rallycross race, because of the prize—a red Puma dune buggy with a yellow top. However, he does not count on "The Kid" (Hill) entering the competition, who also has a talent for the sport—and an eye on that same dune buggy. During the race, each man battles furiously to the finish line. But in a surprise finish, they both end up tying for first place, and dash for the buggy, reaching it at the same time. As a result, they are both awarded the dune buggy. Of course, sharing is out of the question, so they soon get into a serious discussion as who gets the buggy, at first suggesting betting it in a game of cards, and arm-wrestling. Finally they decide on a "beer and sausages" duel in the funfair's pub, in which "the first one that blows up loses the car and pays the tab".
The challenge is roughly interrupted by men working for "The Boss" (Sharp), a building profiteer that wants to demolish the Luna Park so he can replace it with a skyscraper, who proceed to tear up the beerhouse and threaten the customers. Ben and Kid agree to take their contest elsewhere, but when ordered by one of them to leave the car under the threat of destroying it, Ben and Kid dismiss him and drive away, which results in the buggy being rammed by another car, destroying it.
Resolute to reclaim a new buggy, the two barge into the Boss' restaurant during a dance party, and demand that he replaces the buggy, otherwise they'll "get mad". After the two leave, the boss is inclined to buy them a new buggy to compensate them, but is discouraged by the "Doctor" (Pleasance), a German-born Freudian psychologist: he believes that Ben and Kid are two "spoiled children" that think the boss is the "father figure". To give in to their demand would be a bad psychological fallout. The Doctor exalts the Boss' wickedness, goading him into dealing with the two, and the Boss sends his henchman Atilla after them, spraying gasoline onto Ben's car and lighting it aflame, though they're able to put it out by driving into a nearby car wash.