The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid

The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid (1979) is an Italian sci-fi comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Michele Lupo, it hands the badge to Bud Spencer, who plays Hall, a heavyset small-town sheriff with a very fast right hook.

While the town panics over UFO sightings and the army hunts for little green men, Hall stumbles onto an actual one — a boy who calls himself H7-25 and insists he fell out of the sky. The sheriff laughs it off until the kid starts bending reality in front of him. Then the military comes knocking, and Hall has to flatten a small battalion to get the boy home. Cary Guffey, the child from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, plays the alien.

This is the first half of Spencer's two-film alien run: bloodless brawls, slapstick chases and an odd-couple friendship between a giant and a tiny visitor. Pure, good-natured fun from the heyday of Italian comedy, best watched without taking a single frame seriously. Stream The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid (1979) online on iFILM.