All the Way Boys

Plata and Salud are a pair of quick talking pilots who make a living by staging risky airfield scams for insurance money. They plan a routine fake crash, but fate intervenes and their aircraft actually goes down deep in the South American jungle. Stranded among rough terrain and wary locals, they quickly realize a larger scheme is at work. A shadowy magnate known as Mr Big is buying diamonds from impoverished miners for far less than their worth, while his armed henchmen keep the going price suppressed. When Plata and Salud decide to help the miners resist this exploitation, their exploits shift from blunder to gambit and they become unlikely allies in a fight for a fair share.

Directed by Giuseppe Colizzi, the film is written by Colizzi with Amedeo Pagani and Barbara Alberti. Starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, it follows their Trinity style in a globe-trotting adventure released in 1972.

The duo of Hill and Spencer became a touchstone of Italian action comedy and this movie plays to their popular screen persona: fast banter, physical gags, and collaborative pacing. All the Way Boys extends that chemistry into jungle settings and a caper size scale.

Critics generally treated it as brisk entertaining fare rather than a prestige project, balancing stunts with humor. Its core themes revolve around camaraderie and standing up to exploitation, with the miners and their allies pushing back against a ruthless diamond buyer.