lovely posters
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hard to reply, I love them both Ginger 
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Credit page has been added…
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Showed this classic to my roommate a few nights ago, and he’s been clicking his tongue like Milian ever since… I may have created a monster 
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‘Compañeros’ premiered in the UK at the Rialto Cinema on 13th January 1972. It went on general release in March 1972 in a ‘giant all-action double bill’ with ‘Commandos’.
Sources below: (Bristol Evening Post, 21st May, 1972) (Bolton News, 16th June, 1972)
In the United States it opened in El Paso, April 26 1972.
Source below: (El Paso Herald Post, April 26, 1972)
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Frank O’Nero!
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Commandos is also fantastic btw in its uncut version
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I watched Compañeros it for the first time recently and enjoyed it. I had heard about it for a long time and just never had seen it. Some great performances and a good bit going on when it gets going. The scene at the start where they start the revolution in the village is great. Palance is a great villain in this and the different characters weave in and out very well. Some iconic scenes and great action in parts in it too. It is light hearted and fun at times. Maybe I like the heavier stuff. In this discussion thread which I have enjoyed, there is a lot of discussion on how it compares to the Mercenary. I think it has also made me want to watch Tepepa again. 3.5 stars for Companeros, I enjoyed it.
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Two lovable assholes contentiously working together might just be my favorite movie formula, and Compañeros is a masterclass example of it. Plus, it’s got a bit of that PCU/Blue Brothers energy to it (in which the protagonists, over the course of the film, accrue the ire of a growing number of separate factions -to increasingly chaotic results). Not to mention the amazing character design work. Jack Palance’s the wooden hand and his earpiece-sporting henchman are so quirky, distinct, and memorable. Really enjoyed this one.
I came across a couple of versions of this, btw. The one I watched was 1h50m, and it exits the opening shootout scene directly to the Penguin’s train coming to town. But I another version had a lengthy scene of Vasco (Milian’s character) shining shoes and first meeting General Mondo. Of the two, I think it works better without the additional scene, as it endears the audience to Vasco too early. But it’s hard for me to tell because I saw it second, so I was already endeared.
Not sure what other differences there may between the cuts though.
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Yeah, hard to top Companeros and The Mercenary when it comes to this dynamic. Both are endlessly rewatchable for me. And Corbucci perfectly encapsulates the playful tone so synonymous with the genre.
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So true. And what a great achievement by Corbucci in this regard
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Yes, hard to capture lightning in a bottle like that once, let alone twice!
Was this some DVD version?
There have been versions of Companeros on VHS without the extra scenes, those that didn’t have english dub, only italian.
Does thé uncut version have german dub for the whole film?
Anyway, it’s like GBU and also Long Live Your Death, only the shorter versions have english dub.
Also Long Live Your Death was released on VHS in the shorter version in some countries in the 1980s.
There are two German dubs. The uncut version has the full German theatrical original release dub; the comedy re-release version is shorter and has a “funnier” dub.
Thanks.
It’s the other way round, the cut version with many comedy style dialogues is the original theatrical version. Later the complete version was also released with a new more “serious” dub.
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yep, back in these days , the German distributors thought more comedy makes more money. They ruined a fistful of movies and more with this strictly commercial attitude. Trinity is still my name , is one of it , in my opinion. But the comedy dub was made years after the “serious dub”
You mean the longer complete version (with new complete german dub) was also shown in theaters, or only on TV and home video?
And the shorter international version was first shown in theaters (with german funny dub). Then this is the same version as the shorter export version with english dub.
Yes, the uncut version was released in 1977 with a new and much better dub.
German Blus also feature the English version with 115 min, but the shorter German one runs only 109 min. I have the English dub on my DVD, and the scene with Fajardo is not dubbed, but it is on the short German version.