The Two Parachutists

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I due parà

Directed by	Lucio Fulci
Written by	Vittorio Metz Amedeo Sollazzo Lucio Fulci
Produced by	Renato Jaboni
Starring	Franco Franchi Ciccio Ingrassia Umberto D'Orsi Robnerto Camardiel Monica Randall
Cinematography	Tino Santoni Giovanni Bergamini
Edited by	Pedro Del Rey
Music by	Piero Umiliani^[1]
Production companies	IMA Film Agata Film
Distributed by	Medusa
Release date	December 24, 1965 (1965-12-24)
Running time	90 minutes^[2]
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Two Parachutists (Italian: I due parà) is a black-and-white 1965 Italian war comedy film directed by Lucio Fulci, starring the comic duo Franco and Ciccio. The film is a French-Spanish-Italian production (title in Spanish: Los dos paracaidistas; in French: Les Deux Parachutistes).

Plot

Franco and Ciccio are two Sicilian street artists who are forced to flee to the United States to escape their debts. However they board the wrong ship and find themselves arriving in an (imaginary) South American country, where they are kept as prisoners. Rescued by U.S. soldiers, they are eventually sent to fight in the Vietnam War.

Cast

Franco Franchi ... Franco Impallomeni
Ciccio Ingrassia ... Ciccio Impallomeni
Umberto D'Orsi ... American ambassador
Roberto Camardiel ... Gen. Jose Limar
Mónica Randall ... Rosita
Luis Peña ... Alvardo Garcia
Ignazio Leone ... Parachutist Sarge Sullivan
Enzo Andronico ... Cafe owner
Lino Banfi ... Tequinho (as Pasquale Zagaria)
Luciano Bonanni ... Villager with the rifles
Franco Morici ... Parachute lieutenant
Emilio Rodríguez ... Diego
Tano Cimarosa ... Garcia's aide
Francesca Romana Coluzzi ... Passion Flower
Piero Morgia ... Parachutist Jack
Linda Sini ... Consuelo
Calogero Azaretto ... Limar's private

Production

Despite some photographs on the covers of later video releases being colourised, the film was filmed in 1965 in black-and-white,^[3] at a time when colour film was about to become the standard output.

This period of Fulci's work is intensively marked by his collaborations with Franco and Ciccio. In 1965, while I due pericoli pubblici was still being shown in theaters in Italy, Fulci directed two Franco and Ciccio films, The Two Parachutists and 002 Operazione Luna. In 1966 he would film Come svaligiammo la Banca d’Italia, again with the Sicilian duo.^[4]

Reception

According to a retrospective review: "Coming just a month after the enjoyably loopy 002 Operazione Luna, this is a rather slapdash entry in the long-running series, a Spanish-Italian co-production casting the boys as a pair of bungling Sicilian parachutists who get involved in a coup d'etat in an unnamed banana republic. The usual slapstick and farcical situations ensue, all played out with the frantic signature hysteria which has marked most Franco and Ciccio films."^[5] Nevertheless, a retrospective review underlines the fact that Fulci's directing has more artistic quality than most Franco and Ciccio films made by other directors.^[6]

Release

A DVD version was released in Italy by Mustang in December 2021.^[7]

References

^ I due parà (in Italian), retrieved 2023-04-07
^ Thrower, Stephen (1999). Beyond Terror, the films of Lucio Fulci. FAB Press. page 274
^ Paolo Mereghetti, Il Mereghetti.
^ "LUCIO FULCI « La zona morta" (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
^ "I due parà". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
^ "Lucio Fulci abbandona Franco e Ciccio – Word Shelter". www.wordshelter.it. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
^ Balsamo, Carmine Massimo (2022-01-21). "I DUE PARÀ/ La brillante satira di Lucio Fulci con Franco e Ciccio". IlSussidiario.net (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-04-07.

External links

I due parà at IMDb

Films directed by Lucio Fulci

Theatrical films

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Direct-to-video films

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