The Diamond Peddlers

The Diamond Peddlers
Directed byGiuliano Carnimeo
Screenplay byPier Luigi Alberti
Gabriella Giustini
Story byPier Luigi Alberti
Ugo Tucci
Gabriella Giustini
Produced byUgo Tucci
StarringPaul Smith
Michael Coby
Dominic Barto
Jacques Herlin
Giuseppe Maffioli
CinematographySebastiano Celeste
Edited byAmedeo Giomini
Music byJUNIPER
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
LanguageItalian

The Diamond Peddlers (Italian: Il vangelo secondo Simone e Matteo, also known as Diamond Pedlars) is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Giuliano Carnimeo and starring Paul Smith and Michael Coby, a comedic duo teamed with the purpose of copying the successful films of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.[1][2] It is structured as a sequel to previous year's Convoy Buddies.[3]

Plot

Toby and Butch, working as pack carriers in Africa, pick up a gun, are mistaken for criminals and find themselves being chased by military police through marketplace stalls. They hide in a village church, dress in priestly cassocks and are tasked with delivering a statue of the Virgin Mary to Amsterdam. The statue is filled with diamonds which the duo unknowingly smuggle through customs and are chased through the city's streets and canals, with the diamond-filled pouch ultimately landing in the path of a roller-compactor and being crushed into dust while Toby and Butch, still in their clerical robes, continue running from their pursuers.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ Hughes 2004, p. 238.
  2. ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
  3. ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
    - Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059695.

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