How to Kill 400 Duponts
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| Directed by | Steno |
| Story by | Castellano & Pipolo |
| Starring | Johnny Dorelli |
| Music by | Franco Pisano[1] |
| Cinematography | Mario Capriotti[1] |
| Edited by | Ornella Micheli[1] |
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Release date | 1967 |
Running time | 96 minutes[1] |
| Country | Italy[1] |
How to Kill 400 Duponts (Italian: Arriva Dorellik) is a 1967 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. The main character of the film, Dorellik, is a Diabolik's parody created at the end of the 1960s for several sketches in television.[2][3]
Plot
Dorellik, an Italian contract killer who lives on French Riviera accepts a job to kill everyone named Dupont in France for a rich customer who expects to receive a large heritage.
Cast
- Johnny Dorelli as Dorellik
- Margaret Lee as Baby Eva
- Alfred Adam as Inspector Saval
- Terry-Thomas as Police Commissioner Green
- Riccardo Garrone as Vladimiro Dupont
- Rossella Como as Barbara Leduc
- Didi Perego as Gisele Dupont
- Agata Flori as Carlotta
- Piero Gerlini as Raphael Dupont
- Totò Mignone as Berthold Dupont
- Samson Burke as Last Dupont
Production
How to Kill 400 Duponts was a film starring popular singer and television host Johnny Dorelli.[4] The Italian title Arriva Dorellik made reference to Dorelli's character Dorellik, which premiered on his television show Johnny Sera.[4]
Release
How to Kill 400 Duponts was released in Italy in 1967.[1] Producer Dino De Laurentiis had been producing a film based on the Diabolik fumetti neri series and sued the producers of How to Kill 400 Duponts over their original title Dorellik, which led to the film being re-titled Arriva Dorellik (lit. Here Comes Dorellik) just before the film's release.[4]
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References
Footnotes
Sources
- Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6.