Os Milhões de Madigan

There's a reason we never see this shown on ANY channel.... it's just really poor direction. Using the circus background music when people trip... a trick usually saved for movies aimed at children. And for the first half hour, hoffman yells his lines at the microphone. When madigan (cesar romero) is sent back to italy, the feds still want to find out what happened to the cash he stole in the united states. In an early film role, dustin hoffman is fister, the fed official, trying to track down madigan and the missing money. But he's a goof up, pink panther style. Or matt helm. But the awful script and direction just aren't up to even those standards. Where is the missing money? Some great shots of what the coliseum looked like in 1966. Directed by giorgio gentili and filmed in italy and spain. Although wikipedia says the director is standley prager. Odd. Wasn't prager the broadway show director?? Wikipedia also tells us this was filmed in 1966, but not released until 1968. That alone was a warning sign. One of three films directed by gentili. And now we know why! It's just very barely okay. Mostly interesting as how hoffman got his start.

This slapstick picture contains amusing , funny scenes , fresh and diverting moments but also flaws and gaps . When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U. S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one million dollars Madigan (Cesar Romero) owed the government, but managed to take to Italy with him. The U. S. Treasury Department is interested in Madigan's one million dollars owed, sending Agent Jason Phister (Dustin Hoffman) to Rome to collect the money, ensuring no one knows he's an agent. Jason arrives in Rome to recover funds swiped from missing gangster and he starts to nose out the million. His criteria for the job is that no one would ever guess he's an agent of the United States government. Jason is a bumbling and conceited agent of the United States Treasury Department who becomes involved in a lot of messes, confusion, chases and mayhem . Meanwhile, he is relentlessly pursued by an Italian commissioner (Gustavo Rojo) and meets a widow (Elsa Martinelli) who was previously related to Madigan.

Fun moments along with embarrassing in this first film from today's established actor Dustin Hoffman. This entertaining, slightly engaging movie is crammed of silly incidents, pursuits, shootouts, moving stunt-work , colorful outdoors and lots of humor. It is just a mildly amusing action comedy with a lot of thieves, mobsters, cops, and other ambitious people. A co-production between Italy and Spain, the interiors were actually shot in the Iberian Peninsula, and the exteriors in idyllic Rome. The movie gets sympathetic and hilarious moments here and there . A simple comedy with action scenes and chases, it was filmed in 1966, but it was not released until three years later, in 1969. The film has the main novelty of being Dustin Hoffman's film debut, with an apparently innocent character and a gentle personality, which reminds us, in some ways, of the role that would launch him to fame the following year in the film: The Graduate. This Hoffman debut is to his career what ¨The Last Chalice¨ was to Paul Newman's and ¨Studs and Kitty¨ was Sylvester Stallone. Here Dustin Hoffman steals the show by parodying the classic character of the stupid and botcher detective, including his ordinary faces , grimaces and gestures; and taking the style of Inspector Clouseau from the long-running Pink Panther series starring Peter Sellers . Being a Spanish/Italian coproduction appear Spain actors as Gustavo Rojo, Fernando Hilbeck, Gérad Tichy, José María Caffarel, Alfredo Mayo, Hector Quiroga and Italians: Riccardo Garrone, Franco Fabrizi, Umberto Raho, Daniele Vargas, Remo De Angelis, Luigi Bonos. Despite being third billed, Cesar Romero barely appears in the film.

Il testamento di Madigan (Italy) Agente quasi speciale Frank Putzu 1X7 (Italy) El millón de Madigan (Spain) Sid Pink's Madigan's Millions (United States) Madigan's Million. The motion picture written by José Luis Bayonas was lousily directed by Giorgio Gentilli. He was a director assistant such as: Zanna Bianca alla riscossa, The AntiChrist, A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, Our Man in Jamaica, Playing the field, The Tough and the Mighty, The Eroticist, The Brotherhood, Roma Bene. And occasionally filmmaker , shooting a few films such as: A Man Called Sledge , Bang Bang Kid and Un dollaro per 7 vigliacchi. Rating: 4/10. Recommended only to the terminally fool-hardy.

OK, so "Un dollaro per 7 vigliacchi" (aka "Madigan's Millions") is pretty much all low humor, with a pre-"Graduate" Dustin Hoffman as a witless government agent sent to Italy to find the million dollars that a murdered gangster (Cesar Romero) kept hidden. Still, the movie elicits a certain charm, as he irks the police, leaves a lawyer in an embarrassing position, and causes a wacky chase through Rome. If absolutely nothing else, it's neat to see Dustin Hoffman in an early role. Personally, I wish that he would do more comedy (think "Tootsie" and "Meet the Fockers").

So, it's worth seeing if only for that. And because Elsa Martinelli was really hot!

This is a treat for audiences. Def. fav Hoffman mostly because I like the Spymania of the 60s and this is a fun present of entertainment. Hoffman plays it a mix of Pink Panther's Clouseau goofiness and also some scenes of even guns being used as he boasts of being a crack shot like 'Matt Dillon'. Scenery of Europe adds to exoticness. Light on gadget use and the officials who assist him gripe about him doing shootouts "there hasn't been machinegun fire in Rome since 1945" an official gripes," wow. Rec. by Eurospy Guide by Matt Blake/David Deal.

In spite of the low rating of this film I got interested in it as I wanted to see an early Hoffman's performance and the story sounded interesting.So I watched the film and I think it isn't bad at all.Yes,it has its weak points but there is plenty of humor and fun in it.Some scenes can really make you laugh.The mixture of comedy and crime works in my view and the reason for that is mainly the wonderful Hoffman ,who makes a very good role.There is even a car chase in the movie which isn't bad for a film made in the 1960s.The plot is interesting,maybe it isn't so well written but it won't bother you and you'll probably find the movie nice.The supporting cast is also good:Elsa Martinelli,Gustavo Rojo,Ricardo Carrone,Fernando Hilbeck and the others do their job well.