Adiós Amigo

Adiós Amigo is a 1975 Western comedy about two inept outlaws in the Old West. Big Ben, played by Fred Williamson, is a slow-witted, easily led man who is taken in by Sam Spade, a smooth-talking con artist portrayed by Richard Pryor. The pair's criminal schemes repeatedly fall apart, among them a stagecoach robbery that goes badly wrong, and the film plays their misadventures for laughs rather than suspense.

Fred Williamson directed the picture and wrote and produced it as well, with Thalmus Rasulala, Mike Henry, Robert Phillips and James Brown among the supporting cast. It was the first of three features he directed in the mid-1970s, followed by Mean Johnny Barrows in the same year and Mr. Mean in 1977. For Williamson, a familiar hard-man presence in blaxploitation cinema, the role and the film mark a move into comedy, with Pryor's hustler playing off his character's gullibility.

Released in December 1975, the film runs 87 minutes and blends action, comedy and Western elements. On IMDb it holds a rating of 4.2 out of 10 from roughly 375 votes, a figure that suggests a small, largely unenthusiastic audience rather than a widely embraced title.