Banana Joe

1982 [ITALIAN]

Action / Comedy

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 56%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 9616 9.6K

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Director

Steno Photo
Steno

Top cast

Bud Spencer Photo
Bud Spencer as Banana Joe
Salvatore Basile Photo
Salvatore Basile as Police Officer
Benito Pacifico Photo
Benito Pacifico as Torcillo's Thug
Nello Pazzafini Photo
Nello Pazzafini as Torcillo's Truck Driver
720p.BLU
884.55 MB
1280*694
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by boblipton 6 / 10

Amiable Comedy

Bud Spencer lives in a small village. He transports the bananas they grow to the nearest city in a ramshackle barge. He never sets foot on the shore. The village, the river, and the boat are his world. But crooked businessman Gianfranco Barra has bribed his way into a license to build a banana factory and a casino in Spencer's village. And Spencer does not have a license to deal in bananas. As far as the law is concerned, he doesn't exist.All of which sounds like it could be a dire tale of a natural man ground by the millstones of so-called civilization. Fortunately, Spencer co-wrote the script, so it turns into a story about how civilization cannot contain him, with plenty of gag sequences. None are particularly original, but Spencer and his cast mates perform them with evident gusto, which goes a long way towards making this funny. From his straightforward courtship of Marina Langner, to the depredations of con man Mario Scarpetta, to drill sergeant Giorgio Bracardi, it's an amiable, loose-jointed comedy.
Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Bemusing comedy set on far country for Bud Spencer enthusiastic, repeating his usual role

Banana Joe(Bud Spencer) is a corpulent and kind illiterate living on a tropical island in the Caribe. He trades bananas when a mobster named Torsillo wishes to take his commerce. Then , for first time in his existence, he goes to big city for getting an identity certificate . There he knows a beautiful singer named Dorianne(Marina), facing off dangers, truck racers(with usual Peplum, Nello Pazzafini as a Torsillo's truck driver) and several adventures.This is a good amusing juvenile for Bud Spencer fans, but he's delight; it packs action, fist-play, slapdash, humor with tongue and check and is quite entertaining. This release has some cool and even hilarious moments, though the Terence Hill-Bud Spencer duo films are better. The film isn't always good , sometimes is fresh and diverting and on a couple of memorable occasions ,it's frankly delicious. The movie displays innumerable laughters and slapstick, including a sour satyr about bureaucracy and the army when Banana Joe is forced to enlist for obtaining a identity document. Sympathetic screenplay by the usual, Mario Amendola, Bruno Corbucci and Carlo Perdesoli(alias Bud Spencer). Catching musical score with noisy songs by Guido and Mauricio De Angelis(Spaghetti Western habitual). The motion picture is professionally directed by Steno, Stefano Vanzina(father of Carlo Vanzina). He wrote and directed in the 60s Toto vehicles(Toto vs the four, Two colonels); Walter Chiari and Raimondo Vianello shows(Heroes of the West, Twins from Texas). In the 70s and 80s directed Bud Spencer movies about Flatfoot or Rizzo, also called Piedone, such as, Flatfoot in Hong Kong, Piedone in Africa, Flatfoot in Egypt. And in the 80s directed TV series , the Professore Jack Clementi, again with Bud Spencer.
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