Synopsis
Pilots Plata and Salud make a living staging airplane crashes for insurance money. When a flight goes down unexpectedly in the South American jungle, they become stranded among diamond prospectors exploited by businessman Mr. Ears. Seeing an opportunity, the two launch their own mining operation, provoking Ears and his henchmen in a comic adventure filled with aerial stunts, brawls, and slapstick.
Factoids & Trivia
- The film was released in 1972 under the Italian title "Piu forte, ragazzi!" and is also widely known by the German title "Zwei Himmelhunde auf dem Weg zur Holle."
- Much of the movie was filmed in Colombia, including locations around Bogota, Cartagena, Girardot, Flandes, Barranquilla, and Santa Marta. Although the story refers to Brazil, the production used Colombian locations to represent the South American setting.
- The opening airport scenes feature Bogota's Eldorado International Airport. Other aircraft sequences used locations associated with Santa Marta and Cartagena.
- The production used numerous real aircraft, including a Douglas DC-3 and a Consolidated PBY Catalina. The Catalina provides one of the film's most distinctive flying sequences.
- "Flying Through the Air," performed by Oliver Onions, became one of the best-known songs associated with the Bud Spencer and Terence Hill films. Bud Spencer, whose real name was Carlo Pedersoli, is also credited as a composer on the track.
- The German-language version is not simply a direct translation. It runs longer than the Italian version, while each version contains scenes that are absent from the other.
- This was the eighth film in which Bud Spencer and Terence Hill appeared together.
- The film marked the first time Terence Hill was dubbed in German by Thomas Danneberg, who later became his regular German voice.
- According to IMDb trivia, Bud Spencer's work on the film preceded his later real-life interest in aviation. He eventually became a qualified jet and helicopter pilot and later founded the airline Mistral Air.