Madigan's Millions

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Madigan's Millions
English-language poster
Directed by	Giorgio Gentili
Produced by	Sidney W. Pink
Written by	José Luis Bayonas
Starring	Elsa Martinelli Cesar Romero< Dustin Hoffman
Cinematography	Manuel Rojas
Release date(s)	1968
Running time	86 mins 93 mins (Spain)
Country	Italy Spain USA
Language	English
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Madigan's Millions (It: Un dollaro per 7 vigliacchi, Sp: El Millón de Madigan, released in the UK as Madigan's Million), is a 1969 Italian-Spanish movie directed by Giorgio Gentili and produced by Sidney W. Pink.

The movie was actually shot in 1966 but was not released for three years. It stars Dustin Hoffman, in his first movie role, as Jason Fister, a young U.S. Treasury Dept. official sent to Rome to recover a large sum of money owed to the United States government by a deceased mobster.

The film is in the lowbrow comedy genre, with comic stop-action chase scenes, as well as many scenes involving western-style gunplay on the streets of Rome. Hoffman's Fister is a seemingly-naive and mild-manner government bureaucrat with a sense for sniffing out phonies, similar to the role Hoffman would play the following year in The Graduate. His character possesses the quirky talent of being an expert marksman with a pistol, which provides for many comic resolutions to scenes and is reminiscent of Hoffman's later role in Little Big Man.

The interiors of the film were shot largely in Spain, with exteriors in Rome.

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[edit] Production

Producer - Sidney W. Pink
Director - Giorgio Gentili (as Dan Ash (Italian version), as Stanley Prager (English version))
Screenplay - José Luis Bayonas (as J.L. Bayonas), Giorgio Gentili, Jim Henaghan Guido Leoni