Synopsis
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (Un genio, due compari, un pollo, 1975) is an Italian-German-French Spaghetti Western comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Damiano Damiani. Terence Hill plays Joe Thanks, a smooth-talking con artist who sets his sights on a corrupt Arizona mayor systematically stripping Native Americans of their land. The scheme involves disguises, a resourceful half-breed partner named Bill, and the endlessly gullible Lucy — and it keeps falling apart and reassembling in new shapes.
Damiani is better known for his crime films and political thrillers, which gives the material a slightly harder edge than the typical Hill comedy. Klaus Kinski turns up in a supporting role, brief but memorable. The film sits somewhere between the knockabout fun of the Trinity series and something with a bit more bite — it is not the most polished Western in the catalogue, but as a time-capsule piece of 1970s European genre cinema with a good lead performance, it delivers. Stream A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot online on iFILM.
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