Main Cast: Cesar Romero, Elsa Martinelli, Dustin Hoffman
Release Year: 1968
Country: ES/IT
Run Time: 89 minutes
Plot
Jason Fister (Dustin Hoffman) is the Internal Revenue Service agent sent to Rome to investigate the hidden money of the late gangster Mike Madigan (Cesar Romero). Jason meets Vick Shaw ( Elsa Martinelli) and he mistakenly takes her to be the dead mobster's mistress when in fact she is his daughter. Soon underworld thugs converge on the couple in an attempt to steal the stolen loot. This film was completed in 1967 and was subsequently shelved. It was released in the wake of Hoffman's popularity from his roles in The Graduate and Midnight Cowboy. This inept and contrived comedy is Hoffman's first feature film. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
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-Spanishmovie 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-mannered bureaucrat with a sense for sniffing out phonies.
The interiors of the film were shot largely in Spain, with exteriors in Rome.
