The Two Parachutists

The Two Parachutists

1965 · 88 min · ★ 5.8 · Comedy

Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam

Directed by Lucio Fulci · Written by Vittorio Metz

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