Pari e dispari (1978, Italy)

Slapstick comedy film based on tracking down mafia operatives who are manipulating gambling and gaming schemes. As they are operating near the Key West naval base in the USA, the naval top brass ask Charlie and Johnny (Bud Spencer and Terence Hill) to sort things out for them.

Charlie drives a heavy lorry and regularly gives a nun and a child a lift to the orphanage. When you see a nun in a comedy film wearing one of those impossible winged head-dresses, you just know that a man is going to turn up wearing the gear in a few minutes, and so it proves. Charlie gives Johnny a lift as a result.

Much later in the film, it is necessary to surprise the mafiosi when they enter a house, so what more natural than for Charlie to dress as a baby girl and wait in a pram, presumably strengthened for the purpose. When the gangsters look in the pram, Charlie springs out and throws them into the adjacent river.

Spencer was an Olympic swimmer (silver medal at Helsinki, 1952) and studied law.

The film is also known as Odds and Evens.

HF May 2004

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