The Adventures of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill

Put on your boots, stock up on beans, and practice your slapstick: the most popular duo from 1970s and 1980s cinema is back, in a beautiful book lovingly crafted over many years by author Philippe Lombard.

In the early 1970s, from the dying embers of the Italian Western, an unlikely duo emerged that would enjoy huge success around the world, moving from Western parodies to adventure comedies. The on-screen chemistry between Carlo Pedersoli, a.k.a Bud Spencer, and Mario Girotti, a.k.a. Terence Hill sparked an incredibly popular cultural phenomenon that lasted for almost 20 years. Their films grossed hundreds of millions of movie tickets around the globe. In Italy and Germany, they became true icons. Public demand was so high that producers even assembled another pair of actors who looked roughly like them, who went on to star in no fewer than five films!

Millions of us grew up with their films, from They Call Me Trinity to the unforgettable Watch Out We’re Mad, Crime Busters, Odd's and Evens, I’m for the Hippopotamus, and Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure, often discovered with our families in the cinema and watched again and again on television. The memory of these two big-hearted rogues and their hilarious fights is still alive and well in the hearts of several generations.

The Adventures of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill recounts their career and recreates a bygone era of popular cinema, when you could win the love of audiences around the world by cracking jokes and dishing out slaps like no one else!