How to Kill 400 Duponts

How to Kill 400 Duponts
Directed by	Steno
Story by	Castellano & Pipolo
Starring	Johnny Dorelli
Cinematography	Mario Capriotti[1]
Edited by	Ornella Micheli[1]
Music by	Franco Pisano[1]
Production companies	Inter Jet Film Mega Film[1]
Release date	1967 (1967)
Running time	96 minutes[1]
Country	Italy[1]

How to Kill 400 Duponts (Italian: Arrriva Dorellik) is a 1967 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. The main character of the film, Dorellik, is a parody of the comic series Diabolik. The character was created in the late 60s for several sketches on television.[2][3]

Plot

Dorellik, an Italian contract killer who lives on the French Riviera accepts a job to kill everyone named Dupont in France for a rich customer who expects to receive a large inheritance.

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] Terry-Thomas, who played a starring role in Arriva Dorellik, also ended up guest-starring in De Laurentiis' Danger: Diabolik.

See also

• List of Italian films of 1967
• Terry-Thomas on screen, radio, stage and record

References

Footnotes

1. Curti 2016, p. 71.
2. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
3. Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
4. Curti 2016, p. 72.

Sources

• Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6.

External links

• How to Kill 400 Duponts at IMDb