Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives - and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure
This Italian adventure-comedy (Chi trova un amico trova un tesoro) directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer delivers a breezy, formulaic buddy-comedy experience typical of the duo's output. The plot has some fun elements — the holdout Japanese soldier is a genuinely charming twist on a real historical phenomenon — but the overall structure is predictable and lightweight. Acting is functional but unremarkable beyond the well-worn Hill/Spencer chemistry. Cinematography is competent location shooting without particular distinction. Novelty gets a modest bump for the Japanese soldier subplot, which gives the film a quirky historical hook, but otherwise it's fairly standard Hill-Spencer territory. The ending is perfunctory and wraps up without much payoff.