Boy! I have a tear in my eye. My childhood heroes...

I'm not crying, you're crying.

Touching.

fucking onions....

Damn! there is way to much dust in this comments section, my eyes itch.

of the twenty or so movies they made together i found only one that was boring

Exactly. My sentiments too.

Yes! I've watched their movies together with my dad all the time when I was a kid. My Dad is dead now, but the Hill-Spencer movies always bring back the good memories. They will always be very dear to my heart.

@@MrRaulstrnad which one?

@@petervansan1054 "Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure" isn't that great. Loved it as a kid though.

Yes, we also love them ( Hungarians) and they are our heros too.

In Germany and Austria, they are considered to be superstars. Thanks for giving the world such a great duo, Italy!

We don't remember them with fondness. We love them.

Also loved here in Chile and Southamerica!!!

@@wjzav1971 Terence's mother was German

the Channel "Kabel 1" has only one purpose. for you to find a warm place, on a sunday morning, when you stumble upon the second half of a bud spencer and terrence hill movie.

Can confirm that. Even for us Germans it's impossible to explain both how important their movies were and even why. Terrence Hill had a German mother iirc, but that doesn't explain this at all. Everyone around here at least knows Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill and very rarely do you find someone who doesn't remember at least one line from one of their movies. The fame of their movies in Germany is partly due to the voice-over having been produced mostly by Brandtfilm, the voice-over studio of Rainer Brandt. The movies were incredibly funny because of added lines that were written specifically for the German version. They often used the so called "Schnodderdeutsch" (snotty German), an artificial dialect made for comedies. Their quips and one-liners practically are something else. Every German knows what you're talking about if you say something along the lines of "Platz da, hier kommt der Landvogt" or "Was ist denn jetzt mit den Kohlen?"

As a fellow german i can confirm: Spencer and Hill are legends in germany!

ABER SOWAS VON!!! 😆👍

Spencers and Hills legacy in Germany is out of this world. I remember that on the weekend after Spencer had sadly passed away that I was at a bar with some friends. We started talking about our favorite moments of his movies, and even the other guests at the bar started getting involved in that smalltalk. We didn't know each other, but everyone, literally EVERYONE loved his movies and that bonded us. When then a young friend of mine who was 18 then asked "Who on earth is Bud Spencer" the entire pub went completly silent, and all inhabitants slowly but surely turned their head very confused at his direction (which were about 20 people without my group of friends), leading to my friends and me pretty much giving him a crash course later. You'd think stuff like this happens only in movies, but nope, that actually happened

i ALWAYS thought that. i wonder if anyone ever approached them with that idea.

That doesn't say anything to USAmericans, they really don't know who Asterix and Obelix are.

@@maythesciencebewithyou Ils sont fous ces américains...

@@maythesciencebewithyou you're right lol

@Get_Smart I can't unsee this now. It's just PERFECT! Too bad they never thought on making a live action Asterix movie with them back then.

I have found that they are hugely popular in socialist countries. I am from Germany and they were not censored in the GDR (east Germany) as well. I assume it is because they were fighting for the "little guy", always played common folk fighting against the establishment, the elites, the police or gangster.

@@michdo23 That actually makes a lot of sense.

@@polaristrans Same thing in the socialist Balkans (Yugoslavia and Albania specifically). I consider their movies borderline socialist propaganda, which is weird since Bud Specner was a well-known right-winger. I mean if you check Banana Joe (a solo Spencer Movie), it's about an illiterate Native fighting against a millionaire with ties to the government trying to buy land of poor people and force their little kids into work.

@@georgeharrison5753 i dont think that saying "slavery is bad" makes you a socialist but ok

@@lorenzobattistutta4761 It doesn't speak about slavery at all though. The rich guy buying the land would be legal. There's also a line about kids being cheap labor, so they're definitely getting paid.

This gave me a smile, the art of movies did what nothing els could do...

Max Headroom! That's another character I haven't seen him in a long time.

@@davymark4376 Needs to be rebooted. (Quite literally. XD) Would be the perfect time, with all that digital madness going on.

it's like weird al yankovic in America, everyone there knows him , in europe only the nerds do ;)

...and the greatest European villain - Fantomas...

Nein! -Doch! -Oh!

Louis De Funes is really famous in Czech Republic. Mainly because he was dubbed over so well by our actor František Filipovský. In fact, Funes himself asked him to dub him in official movies when he started to lose his voice, but Filipovský could not speak convincing French, so he had to refuse.

@@BobbyWanKenobi yes filipovskys louis de funes is a masterpiece of the dubbing acting art

@@MrRaulstrnad The only guy who could dub a stare. In my opinion he was acting him, not dubbing :)

Amazing thing you did for Bud.

That’s cool of you to do that bud. Pun very much intended. 😂

They were popular in New Zealand and Australia but can only comment as a kid in 80's NZ. Crowe as a kid spent time between Australia and NZ. I remember double features at cinemas were popular and I'm sure I saw a Double Trouble trailer before a movie, also a popular video tape rental but can't remember actually seeing one.

That's awesome.

Indeed! At 10:29 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y8the9t1uJPGnmw.html

I never made that connection, but all that does is make me love The Nice Guys more.

Awesooooome!!!

Without seeing what he looked like younger I would've been shocked

@@redkommie80 Also apparently an Olympic level water-polo player according to IMDB

@@mrmacguff1n lol, learning. But thanks to this vid, I'm sold. Going to look up their films

He had quite a few swimming scenes in his movies and you could tell, he knows how to swim. He was, despite his movie looks, still fairly athletic - his extra baggage was basically part of his filmstar trademark, although certainly not gained specifically for that.

And a cerfied helicopter pilot, I recall. He flew one once for real on screen...

48 from America grew up on them

Do you know the hatdstyle remix of it?

@@andir7374 No, do you have a link? :)

On the net, somewhere, you can download the scores

lalalalalalla lalalalalalla lalalalalalla lalla lalalalla

@@alessandrocoppola4642 booo blblb boooo blblb booo blblb SSSSI'!

Same here in Germany. If you ask anyone at the age between 25 and 50 they'll tell you they are their childhood heroes

Yeah. Agreed. 🇿🇦

@@YaBoiFetz So true

As a South African, I can confirm, they were huge.

Another South African here. Remember them vividly. When I went to the video store back in the 80s I never came back without one of their movies.

Hungary is kind of crazy on statues of famous people, there is even a statue of Peter Falk as his Columbo character (with Dog) because the mayor of Budapest at the time thought Falk was related to a Hungarian writer with the same surname (Falk does have Hungarian Jewish ancestry, but I dunno about that relation). That's so cool about Magyar lands actually, lol.

@@vitorafmonteiro Well I'm Hungarian and well aware. You're not exactly right on the story of the Columbo statue but yeah lol. It's still not clear whether or not he was actually related to Miksa Falk (Hungarian journalist, politician) but who cares, it's a very nice statue and tourists love taking pictures with it.

Oh, I know the HUNGARIAN would not be surprised, but I like the idea we are blowing a lot of non-Hungarian heads away with this ("Statues? Of Bud Spencer?Columbo? Dog?! In Hungary?! What?!") lol. Which was the inaccurate part though?

It's interesting to read that the hungarian dubbing made them as famous there as in germany. I didn't knew that. But yeah they were a european phenomenon, they are a important part of the european cinema.

Their fame mostly came from the fact, that Bud Spencer movies was among the few western movies which was allowed in communist Hungarian cinemas, with no or very litle censoring. That was a huge thing, most american movies reached the country in home dubbed (one guy/girl literally translated and voiceovered the movie as he/she watched it) black market vhs tapes. The actor who dubbed Spencer also looked like him (István Bujtor) and made some movies which were basically hungarized versions of the Bud and Terrence ones. The Slaps and Beans video game is also made in Hungary.

add a western or a cop movie to that mix

"Let's go with the slaps. Leave the stick."

''Both. But with beans''

I guess you're a bit older, like myself. I remember them being quite popular in the VHS rental scene in the 80s, never dubbed to Swedish though, just English.

Istvan Bujtor. What’s remarkable, they were of an identical height, 193cm.

@@VladimirPani I just looked him up and he did indeed look a lot like Bud. In Germany, Bud was dubbed by Wolfgang Hess, a Swiss voice actor. And while he didn't have the resemblance that Bujtor had, he was also the voice of Obelix for all the Asterix and Obelix movies, which was very fitting.

I think the first Hill film I saw was "Hot Stuff" or "Hot Shot" or something like that where he had super powers. As a kid I loved it and later as an adult discovered the Trinity series.

As an American I've known about these guys for years.

Bud spencer had a thick neapolitan accent and Terence Hill an Umbrian accent, whihc is very guttural. You are right.

every summer we have reruns of m in the Netherlands

​​​​@@jackieyo6128 Actually, neither of them has a really thick regional accent. Spencer's Neapolitan is not that thick, and Hill's isn't Umbrian at all. He actually has a very strange accent due to having spent all of his childhood in Germany and a huge part of his adult life in the US. Anyway, regional accents are often emphasized and not hidden in Italian cinema. Especially the ones that are considered more comedic, like Roman or Neapolitan. It was a bit different for genre movies, especially westerns, because they wanted to kinda trick the audience into believing these were American or movies or, at the very least, international productions. This also lead most actors and even directors to give themselves American-sounding names. For these reasons they ended up being voiced by the same voice actors that did dubs for imported American movies. Another reason for this is that actors in cheap genre films were chosen for their physical chops rather than for their acting capabilities. Some couldn't really act at all. Last but not least, live audio was much more expensive to do than studio and, often, when it was time to do the dub actors were already busy with another production. Hill and Spencer's acting improved with time, and most of their 70s and 80s movies were actually shot in english to make them easier to translate and dub in international market, but now their italian accents lead them to still be dubbed into "proper" American English by different actors.

pode crer! eu adorava assistir os filmes deles!

Am Brazilian, can confirm.

Same for Norway.. At least in the 80s 90s and 00s.. I don't know if gen z would know them

Colombia too

Em Argentina Tambem.

He really did the right thing by saying no to these movies.

Read the same thing, great guy!

Even my children love those movies.

It's debatable. In the relatively few serious roles he did, he was really, really good.

@@trailersfromhell2539 their first movie together was drama and pretty good one not sure what its called but i guess god forgives but i dont

I was surprised to notice that in some of the English dubs they used Terence actual voice. Come to think of it, he has an American accent when he speaks in Italian, so it makes sense.

@@zanizone3617 His american accent came later on though, as he went to live for 20+ years in the US. I don't think he would have been that american sounding in the 70s, he probably had more german and venetian influences

@@luigibrioschi970 maybe you are right, but listening to the clips, in this video, where he speaks English undubbed (especially the bit with Bud before opening the casino door) to me he sounds exactly as he does now. As an aside, isn't it great seeing all these people from all over the world celebrating them and sharing memories in the comments? They were truly amazing.

Bud Spencer had a thick neapolitan accent and Terence Hill had an Umbrian accent, even if it's quite an unknown accent by many italians, but i know it and i can assure you that , more than the american or german influence, it's the umbiran accent (as his origins) that makes it hard to understand his delivery, because it's a very guttural accent.

there is something universal in their appeal i think the appeal is for boys transitioning into teenagehood boys then want to live action filled lives and basically fight for justice but without any legal restrains basically they want the physically ability to make a fist and bash in the local school bully-alas that ability is actually lacking in most boys and most boys never overcome their fear of getting physically hurt so the great compensation is seeing bud and terry actually overcoming their fear and bashing in the bad guys on screen

@@MrRaulstrnad Guys of every age love them. It's their chemistry and sincere friendship that's so appealing. Then you have the light hearted humor and action scenes that resemble the work of the most famous and beloved action star in the world : Jackie Chan.

@@MrRaulstrnad The appeal also came from them being normal average guys who didn't take themselves too important. Not even their heroic actions were inspired by a want to do good but more by self-interest that happened to have a good effect. Also, I don't know about other dubs, but in the German dub, there was a lot of sophisticated and very creative foul language XD, which especially as a kid, was cool to hear.

@@wjzav1971 interesting iheard about the unique german dubbing-thats not really present in other languages

Americans don't watch stuff from other countries. They rather do their own terrible remakes of them and pretend like it's their original idea.

Maybe I was too young back then (45 now), but everybody in Quebec remember them, but not me. I discovered them in early 2000 because a weird guy working at the DVD rental was always watching their movies, so while talking to him I watched a little bit of Bud & Terrance. Tomorrow, I will start playing the physical version of their Nintnedo Switch game, I got it semi-cheap from a German guy. Young boys would gain a lot by watching their movies instead of the weak harry potter.

Same here man. Go around the play ground dropping the bud Spencer. Crack .

I grew up in South Africa and the movies were super popular there. I'm living in NZ now. Good to know they had an impact here too!

Ricardo Pizutti (I think I misspelled his name here) always played the main henchman who got his face smacked the worst. He was also in charge of the fight choreography. I was lucky to meet him in person a few years back at a Spencer-Hill festival

It would be too dangerous to train new stuntmen for every movie, so they just used the same stunt crew for the henchmen roles.

never change a running system! LOL

@@wjzav1971 yeah, he's gold! Met him as well, 2019 :D

@@wjzav1971 it's Pizzuti, "those with the beak" or "who strike with words" in Sicilian

Same in Tunisia.

they are popular almost everywhere except the us strange isnt it

@@MrRaulstrnad I think in the US it wouldn't go well having the same stuntcrew in every scene and everymovie. You might say, but that's just like they do it in the Honkong Cinema. Yet, Asian faces aren't as easily recognized by a predomantly non asian audiance.

@@TremereTT We don't care if the baddies are the same, if the stuntsmen are the same it does take away an iota of the fun from their films, so we love them!

I popped in the cinema when I heard the Trinity theme in Django.

The sounds and stunt crew are indeed fantastic and iconic.

Man, now I want to see a deepfake version of the dance scene in the Gattopardo where Terrence Hill just starts slapping everyone around 😂

@@zanizone3617 Visconti needs more slaps in his films

@@kostajovanovic3711 There were quite some slaps in Ludwig.

Yeah i heard that too. And FINALLY we get an actual USEFUL museum about true culture :)

It should be a beer and sausage contest

@@daviderossi39 only gods would survive that

@@SaschaAM They ARE gods.

WoW! I wish I could be there! But it is coronavirus time, now.

they are legends here

Budapest is in my list to visit now!

Colombo also has a statue in Budapest

if you happen to have a buddy named Anulu you got your bases covered !

I challenge you to beer and sausages.

Red! Must be red!

Me too. I cried like a baby when Bud passed.

I was sad too, but I take comfort in that from what I hear, he had a very long, happy and fulfilling life and died in peace having the love of his family and all of his fans.

Curiously enough, there were a couple of fake Bud & Terence films and later on, Paul Smith, the Bud Spencer lookalike, played Bluto in the Popeye film.

Don`t forget...Nobody

@@Rschaltegger oooh true! Here is called "il mio nome è Nessuno"

They are really big Hungary too.

I loved the "Plattfuß" series from Bud. I only know the German Name. Basically Bud was a Police Detective from Neapel, ending up in Hong Kong and Africa.

@@kaitan4160 oooh yup here is called PIEDONE (bigfoot) and it is great! the trilogy is also the only movies (well, the second and third actually, the first one not) where Bud/ Carlo talks in Naples accent and slang of south Italy in Napoli, where he was born

I think you have to explain 2 things with the swimming pool: first Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli) was a several times italian champion in swimming as well as 2 times starting at the olympics in swimming (1952 and 1956). And then Bud sounds the same as the german word for bath or swimming pool. So it's a wordplay. Edit, i should have watched for longer as he explained the swimming part.

He actually took part in a swim meet between Germany and Italy there. It's a bit more complex though as originally the city voted on the name of their tunnel - which of course "meme votes" (in this case for Bud Spencer) won. So as a compromise they named their pools after him.

They are so popular in Germany that the family moved Bud Spencer's museum from Naples to Berlin...

Yea, i recon its because Bud Spenser has a bronze olympic medal in breastswimming i think it is.

German company Supacraft even made polystone statues of Bud and Terence 1:6 and later busts 1:4. There is also great statue of Bud made by Italian Infinite Statue (1:6).

bud lived in argentina for some time

Yeah, now that you talk about them... there were two physically almost similar actors that tried to copy them in the 70ies... forgot their names. Giuliano Gemma too in at least one film took the place of Terence... they were wannabe goons in the prohibition time in the USA... anche gli angeli mangiano fagioli, international name unknown to me.

@@2st486 and terence lived in venezuela for some time

@@Pdor_figlio_di_Kmer Oh yeah, I watched that... Ufff...

@@das81 Didn't you like it?

They were also extremely popular in New Zealand, (and to a lesser extent Australia). As a kid growing up in the 80s I never even realised they were not American.

+1

Yes, great movie. Alway worth to watch. I still remember that line on the Gravestone of Henry Fonda's character: "Here lies Jack Beauregard. Nobody was faster on the draw."

It's a pretty smart western. It's basically classic western hero meets spaghetti western hero and the soundtrack is of course by Ennio Morricone.

You good sir, are a man of culture.

I only really remember (as a kid) Terence Hill in “My Name is Nobody”, it was shown quite a bit on Cable TV (70’s and 80’s), and mostly because Henry Fonda was his Co-star. Never forget his piercing blue eyes (Hill’s not Fonda’s 😀). He also got some play thru some of the Trinity movies on American cable. But that is pretty much it. Had no idea who Bud Spencer is/was, but do recognize the face actor from I believe one or two Trinity films I saw years ago. And I’m something of a film buff 😀 (for an American). Hats Off has done another great job in introducing me to something I should look into/appreciate.

Although they were not widely known here in the US, their films did play in some markets. When I was a kid in Saint Paul, Minnesota I remember seeing some of their films in the theater. That was in 1972-74. I do remember seeing a movie called "Flatfoot," with Bud Spencer only. Kids really loved their movies.

Yep. I'd never heard of them in the UK. But when we moved to South Africa in '83 they were never off the screens. LOVED their movies.

@@pward3338 oh brother, watch their movies chronological (maybe 1 in a month) and look what happend to your heart. Soon you will find your own favorites and a kind of family in our community too ;-) a (german) grown child

Flatfoot was more like a serial (made of mini-movies) they also did one in Egypt, basically they went to a different country in each episode, McCloud style. Bud was an investigator and his sidekicks were an old policemen from Naples and a black kid (also from Naples).

really? Singapore? Incredible!

yes it is suprising how UNdated spencer and hill can be aside from the seventies and eighties fashions-especially in the spanish dune buggy movie their comedy still is funny as when it first came out

I grew up soth the Trinity movies and they are some of the best western comedies ever made

Amazon Prime, actually, has most of their movies. Surprising, but true.

@@etme1000 Holy smokes! That's awesome!

@@TheDeconstructivist Both Trinity movies are on Tubi for free, as well as My Name is Nobody which is GREAT.

WoW4 That is also interesting we always use Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.

It is the same way in Germany. Bud first, then Terence. It just rolls off the tounge nicer.

In Spain they were big too, and always referred as "Bud Spencer and Terence Hill", not the other way around.

In The Netherlands it's Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, but my memory might be based on having access to German tv-channels and having seen them on those - where they also are Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.

in finland its also Bud and Terence

They used to show them on SBS all of the time!! Great movies!

there is something universal in their appeal i think the appeal is for boys transitioning into teenagehood boys then want to live action filled lives and basically fight for justice but without any legal restrains basically they want the physically ability to make a fist and bash in the local school bully-alas that ability is actually lacking in most boys and most boys never overcome their fear of getting physically hurt so the great compensation is seeing bud and terry actually overcoming their fear and bashing in the bad guys on screen

Back when I was a kid in the eighties everybody loved them.

I remember high school playing them at the end of semester. NSW high school

It's actually not just a great comedy, but also one of the best Spaghetti Westerns, I've ever seen. No wonder, having Sergio Leone as an author and co-director.

I think Spencer was not as fat as he looked. Him wearing tight jackets often made him look "bigger" than he actually was (which is ironic because Seagal started wearing wide leather jackets to hide how fat he really was) and most of it had to be muscles considering how he was able to move around.

@@wjzav1971 I mean, I think you are right. But I just had to take the oportunity to shit on Seagal hahaha

@@wjzav1971 yes, while Bud had his fair share of body fat, ultimately he was mostly a really strong and muscular guy, being a former Olympian swimmer.

He was also a lovely guy that did not abuse women, so yeah way better then Seagal.

@@amandarose4469 You are completely right.

also the script of first blood was pretty awful and when Sly saw the first screening tried to buy and destroy it. they had to cut the movie from 3 hours to 90 min removing most of the Rambo dialog and then the movie became what it is now so not accepting the role could have been driven mostly from the quality of the script

@@lucabazzanella7780 hill playing rambo just wow of course, the original rambo character is a totally different character, more a victim than a psychopath mercenary, from the sequels

Wasn’t Steve McQueen also considered for the role? But Steve sadly passed away

@@lassesuurmunne8340 They considered a lot of actors for the role. I believe they offerd it to Eastwood too.

@@MrRaulstrnad From what I hear, in the original script of First Blood, Rambo was far more of a cold blooded killing machine then a victim of PTSD.

Must have also enjoyed those great one-liners in the German dub ;-)

Come with me for fun in my buggy! (ta-tata-taaah!

🎶 YOR’S WORLD! HE’s the man! HE’s the man! 🎶

@@gabrieleriva651 if you whistle that tune while walking around in italy, the chances of strangers joining you are very high XD

Yes, the brothers Maurizio and Guido De Angelis they scored many movies and TV series including Sandokan and Orzowei. Their Crime Busters theme for Hill/Spencer is a classic, love that movie saw it twice in theaters back then.

Dang, now I'll have "Bulldozer" stuck in my mind for half the day. Thanks for that.

For context, both of the voice actors are absolute legends. Hess also voiced Gimli and Obelix (at least in two films) and Danneberg is the German voice of Schwarzenegger (yeah, he's dubbed in Germany), Stallone, Travolta, Dan Aykroyd, John Cleese and many more.

Augentaucher, Sitzriese, Gewürzprüfer - still endlessly quotable.

Terence Hill also appeared opposite Gene Hackman in the foreign legion adventure epic March or Die. It's a great movie and Hill shines in a rare dramatic role.

Since this video is full of Germans claiming how popular they where I'd like to add the same goes for all European countries... Im fairly sure I remember the Tarrence Hill Lucky Luke movie got a theatrical release in Norway

There's a good Trailers From Hell video with Mr. Billion's director where he laments where the production went wrong (no Bud).

isn`t Karfreitag KOstern, and the movies are played all day long on Kabel 1?

bruh

Is it a good game?

@@samspencer582 a good co-op beat em up, but you kinda need to have a freind to play with you. cause it's harder when you playing it alone (which is a problem for most of the co-op beat em up game :)

A really fun game, by the way, with a fantastic soundtrack.

@@samspencer582 Yes, it is a fantastic game, if you're a fan, you need to play it.

With Ennio Morricone soundtrack

@@Beregorn88 Sergio Leone had his fingers in it, too. And it shows. It is a little gem. Love it.

@@Dr.Gillingstein It's actually my favourite Terrance Hill-movie. :)

There's even a version of that slapstick scene shown in this video in it with Terence Hill slapping a guy around as he's repeatedly drawing his gun and putting it back in his holster.

Yeah, There's a video of Terence Hill being interviewed in german TV.

They are on TV here in Germany regularly every month

Bud and Terence have their own Pizza at the moment in germany and Bud has his own Whisky. In 2021, unbelievable. :)

Yes, it is true they were not widely known in the USA; but, I can remember seeing some of their movies at the theater when I was a kid in Saint Paul, Minnesota. That was in 1972-73.

I think there's a Spencer/Hill pizza being sold at the moment.

Well, in that sense globalization of media is a force for good. If people from all over the world consume the same entertainment, isn't that a step in the right direction? Peace and understanding, through big American blockbuster fandom.

When my dad told me these guys were Italian, I didn't believe him. I was convinced they were American. But then, in the same period I was wondering why some movies were called Spaghetti Western, as no-one ever ate spaghetti in them.

@@TheEvertw :-)

It's odd, that in some English speaking countries (the UK as well) they weren't all that well-known.

@@LarryFleetwood8675 The USA is pretty isolationist in matter of films, and the UK are pretty USA-oriented in the matter of non-UK-made films. They're tied by a memetic movie umbilical cord, that they like to admit it or not.

@@Pdor_figlio_di_Kmer That's true enough, another interesting thing I've noticed is fashions in clothing; America then being somewhat isolated culturally stuck by old fashions a lot longer than Europe or the UK, by the early '70s things would still look quite late '60s-like in the States.