Before Clint & Lee there were …
Ugo & Walter
Read all about them in the:
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Un_Dollaro_di_Fifa_Review
I’m glad you made a review. I’ve got that release too. Luckily some channels are still broadcasting this rarities.
Since I’m improving my understanding of italian, I guess I’ll be watching this one soon.
Very informative and well written review! Haven’t seen this aside from a few clips but will seek it out. The Tognazzi/Chiari team (and its variations - like Tognazzi/Vianello) was the predecessor of Franco and Ciccio, and many of the same talents like Giorgio Simonelli worked with them, but I must say these guys go down much more easily than that manic duo. Tognazzi, after all, evolved into one of the greatest film actors of his generation, and Chiari proved numerous times that he had as good acting chops as his American counterpart Dean Martin. I’ll watch anything with them in it just for them even though their joint vehicles were pretty ‘intermittent’ when it came to plotting and laughs. Smart move then using Gogol as a template and proof that even before Leone Italian Westerns cribbed their plots from unlikely classic predecessors. Footnote: Inspector General was adapted for another Italian comedy a couple years later, the (somewhat) more highbrow ANNI RUGGENTI with traveling salesman Nino Manfredi mistaken for an incognito Fascist inspector visiting a small burg at the dawn of WWII - very funny (Gastone Moschin as a short tempered Mussolini wannabe is priceless); though not Western, Linda Sini (of MASSACRE TIME) is in it.
I go looking for that movie, I think. Sounds very interesting. They apparently stayed closer to the Gogol play, only changed the setting (from Tzarist Russia to Fascist Germany). This movie, Un Dollaro di Fifa, is of course a very, very free adaptation of the play. You’re right about Tognazzi, a talented comedian, he has some of the film’s best scenes. Franco and Ciccio had some talent too, but like you say, they were too manic.
Un Dollaro di Fifa - What’s it about, backhanders for Seb Blatter?
Could someone help identify these actors and extras?
@Carlos: Nando Angelini is credited, but I couldn’t identify him. The only actors in the movie who bear a certain resemblance to him are these two:
I don’t think it’s Angelini, though, neither the one nor the other. What is your opinion?
PS: I found some uncredited extras on Thrilling Forum and will add them to the database page soon.
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Agreed
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Thank you, Carlos. So Angelini is either one of the unidentifiable extras in the background or not in the movie at all, a possible “CSC credit.” It’s probably best to stick with “unidentified role” in the database and pin our hopes on the younger and sharper eyes of future generations of Spaghetti Western devotees.
Two credited actors are a complete mystery: Bruno Pagliani and Giorgio Zuccaro. According to ANICA and IMDb, both have appeared in only one film besides U. d. d. f., Vittorio Cottafavi’s Messalina Venere imperatrice (1960)—which makes identification absolutely impossible, because even if one or both are recognizable in both films, we still don’t know who is Pagliani and who is Zuccaro. 
There are in fact two as yet unidentified actors who I think appear in both Messalina Venere imperatrice and Un dollaro di fifa. So they could be Bruno Pagliani and Giorgio Zuccaro, who are credited in both films.
This blonde extra/actress also seems to appear in both films:
PS: A big thanks to the guys over at Thrilling Forum for their great work. In particular to Carlos and in this case to PeplumParadise (Nick) for his Messalina thread.
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