Unbeatable couple

Six decades ago, Bud Spencer and Terence Hill began their film careers together with the historical film Hannibal. On this special occasion, 60 colleagues, including actors, directors, assistant directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, producers, stuntmen, acrobats, set and costume designers, composers, assistants and the acting duo's stunt doubles, tell their personal experiences with the legendary slapstick duo. The special stories include why director Sergio Corbucci called Bud Spencer a racehorse who got in shape for filming with cream bombs and lifting 100-pound men. It also reveals how the teddy-bear-like stuntman saved the life of film director Giuseppe Colizzi's son and why he almost stopped filming one of his films due to a disagreement. We learn why the script for the later blockbuster The Devil's Left and Right Hand was first torn up, and why the music for the film that has since become a world-famous hit was thrown in the trash. We learn what advice Bud Spencer, who dispensed deadly peasant swings, gave to his budding co-stars, how he taught them to ride horses, what shirts and shoes he liked to wear during filming, and what the international card game called "Scopa" was that he played with Terence Hill during breaks. From exclusive interviews with the cast members, we also learn what delicious foods Bud Spencer ate during breaks (including "orecchie di elefante", or elephant ears), and how filming often turned into a joint party that lasted until late into the night. It also reveals the difficulties involved in making a film in the jungle amidst the bloody civil war that broke out between Colombia and Venezuela, and why the thin actor and his chubby buddy's big dream of filming the film We, Pirates in the Antilles did not come true. The series of adventurous stories also reveals where the female characters in the film went horseback riding with the blonde, blue-eyed, sly actor, or how they managed to convince Bud Spencer to have his name listed second on the credits for all their films together, and it also reveals why Terence Hill was involved in a stabbing on a busy New York street. The book presents a side of the Italian star couple that was previously unknown through a multitude of never-before-heard, interesting stories.