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Feb 12, 1970 · Tres amigos: Directed by Gilberto Gazcón. With David Reynoso, Andrés García, Claudia Islas, Héctor Bonilla.
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- Adventure, Comedy
- Gilberto Gazcón
- 1970-02-12
- Randy Newman Played The Singing Bush.
- It Was Martin Short's First Movie role.
- The Actor Who Played El Guapo Was in A 1970 Movie called Tres amigos.
- John Landis's Favorite Moment While Shooting Was An Argument with Chevy Chase.
- Several Films That Came Out After ¡Three Amigos! Shared Its premise.
- Steve Martin Developed Tinnitus While Shooting The Film.
- Roger Ebert Gave It One Star.
- It Took Six Years to Get The Film Into production.
- Fran Drescher Was in The Original Film, But Was Cut Because of Time issues.
- Steven Spielberg Almost Directed The Film.
Well, technically, the Singing Bush was played by a bush, but Newman provided its voice. His voice was digitally altered for the role. In an interview with Movies.com, director John Landis explained that he’d considered several different ways of portraying the singing bush—including animating it, or somehow showing its lips moving—but ultimately de...
Short had been doing sketch comedy—including on Saturday Night Live and SCTV—for years before he landed the part, but ¡Three Amigos! was his breakout film role. He went on to work with Steve Martin in two more films: Father of the Bride (1991) and Father of the Bride Part II(1995).
The Spanish language adventure comedy is largely forgotten today, but Alfonso Arau not only went on to play “El Guapo” in ¡Three Amigos!, he also appeared as the villain, Herrera, in Sam Peckinpah’s classic Western The Wild Bunch(1969).
Landis told Movies.com, “Probably the funniest moment for me when shooting was when I had the Three Amigos on horseback in the desert and I was shooting while they were wearing those ridiculous outfits and after having been shooting for three weeks, Chevy objected to a line of dialogue and he said, 'I don't think I should say this.' And, remember, ...
Like ¡Three Amigos!, films like Galaxy Quest (1999) and Tropic Thunder (2008) have featured movie stars accidentally ending up in real danger. Vulture outlined the many similarities between Tropic Thunder and ¡Three Amigos!, which include everything from similar catchphrases and movie star cameos (Tom Cruise plays Jewish film producer Les Grossman ...
While shooting a pistol fight in the film, Steve Martin developed tinnitus—a constant ringing in the ears which sometimes fades over time. In Martin’s case, the condition turned out to be permanent: regarding his experience with tinnitus, he explains, “You just get used to it. Or you go insane.”
He called it "too confident, too relaxed, too clever to be really funny," and complained that the performers were underutilized—particularly Chevy Chase who “hardly seems in the movie at all." He also argued that the film lacked the energy of Landis’s earlier comedy, Animal House.
It was originally going to be called The Three Caballeros. Steve Martin, who came up with the original idea, was talking about it in interviewsas early as 1980, but it took a long time to find a director willing to make it.
Before she was The Nanny, Drescher had a small part in ¡Three Amigos!as a shallow movie star in the Hollywood segment of the film. Though the film was eventually re-released with deleted scenes, Drescher’s footage didn’t appear—it seems to have been lost entirely over the years.
Spielberg considered making the film in the early 1980s with Martin, Robin Williams, and Bill Murray as the leads. Ultimately, he decided to make E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial(1982) instead.
The film stars Donald Duck, who in the course of the film is joined by old friend José Carioca, the cigar-smoking parrot from Saludos Amigos, who represents Brazil, and later becomes friends with a pistol-packing rooster named Panchito Pistoles, who represents Mexico.
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1970 1h 30m Adventure List Reviews A man and his two sons go to the city to sell livestock and are witnesses to the death of a friend, whom they swear to...
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Directed by Gilberto Gazcón. Man accused of murder, and the dead man’s daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer’s identity. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
Runtime. 1 hr 25 min. Premiere: World. February 12, 1970. Production Companies. Cinematográfica Jalisco S.A. Adventure. Comedy. Man accused of murder, and the dead man’s daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer’s identity.
