Shot in Newnan, GA* - look for a scene outside Stone Mountain - Uno sceriffo extraterrestre... poco extra e molto terrestre (An extraterrestrial sheriff... a little extraterrestrial and very terrestrial) is exactly what I want out of the movies that I watch. I got more enjoyment out of this film than probably anything new that I will watch this year. What can I say? Movies where Bud Spencer punches people and Oliver Onions are on the soundtrack are my true joy in life.
Directed by Michele Lupo (The Weekend Murders, Arizona Colt) and written by Marcello Fondato (Blood and Black Lace) and Francesco Scardamaglia (Kill Them All and Come Back Alone), this starts as the town sees a UFO touch down, which means that everyone loses their mind. Everyone but Sheriff Hall (Spencer), who doesn't believe in aliens. So let crooks like Brennan (boxing champ Joe Bugner) use aliens to try and break the law. The big burly Sheriff will keep things normal.
Until later that night, when he gets the call to save a lost kid at Six Flags Over Georgia. He easily finds him but also finds another who calls himself H7-25. He's played by Cary Guffey, who was Barry, the little boy in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And this is also why I love Italian cinema, because they put him on the poster and can make it seem like this movie is connected in some way to that blockbuster.
H7-25 convinces Hall that he's an alien by healing his deputy's rheumatism, repeatedly saving him with his alien weapon and even blasting him with enough bio-magnetic energy that he can catch gigantic fish and speak with horses. He returns the friendship by teaching H7-25 the wonders of baked beans. Yes, it really is a Bud Spencer movie.
At the same time, Air Force man Briggs (Raimund Harmstorf) is trying to take in H7-25 for dissection. Even Brennan ends up helping the sheriff and the alien escape. By the end, the alien child likes Earth so much that he decides to stay for a little longer, which would be the sequel, Everything Happens to Me, which is a lot like Stranger Things and was made 36 years before it.
*Georgia is also the home of so many wonderful Italian movies. The Last Shark, The Visitor, Cannibal Apocalypse, City of the Living Dead and Madhouse.
Directed by Michele Lupo (The Weekend Murders, Arizona Colt) and written by Marcello Fondato (Blood and Black Lace) and Francesco Scardamaglia (Kill Them All and Come Back Alone), this starts as the town sees a UFO touch down, which means that everyone loses their mind. Everyone but Sheriff Hall (Spencer), who doesn't believe in aliens. So let crooks like Brennan (boxing champ Joe Bugner) use aliens to try and break the law. The big burly Sheriff will keep things normal.
Until later that night, when he gets the call to save a lost kid at Six Flags Over Georgia. He easily finds him but also finds another who calls himself H7-25. He's played by Cary Guffey, who was Barry, the little boy in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And this is also why I love Italian cinema, because they put him on the poster and can make it seem like this movie is connected in some way to that blockbuster.
H7-25 convinces Hall that he's an alien by healing his deputy's rheumatism, repeatedly saving him with his alien weapon and even blasting him with enough bio-magnetic energy that he can catch gigantic fish and speak with horses. He returns the friendship by teaching H7-25 the wonders of baked beans. Yes, it really is a Bud Spencer movie.
At the same time, Air Force man Briggs (Raimund Harmstorf) is trying to take in H7-25 for dissection. Even Brennan ends up helping the sheriff and the alien escape. By the end, the alien child likes Earth so much that he decides to stay for a little longer, which would be the sequel, Everything Happens to Me, which is a lot like Stranger Things and was made 36 years before it.
*Georgia is also the home of so many wonderful Italian movies. The Last Shark, The Visitor, Cannibal Apocalypse, City of the Living Dead and Madhouse.