An ill-mannered bandit and a gun-hungry girl stir up outlaw chaos across the Wild West.
SONNY AND JED
Three Women of the Old West...Wild...Raw...Vicious. They're the reason they called the West wild!
Jed (Tomas Milian) is an unlikely hero in this Italian western. As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, he nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When Sonny (Susan George) decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a proper outlaw, sparks fly.
Not all outlaws wear black hats—some prefer a bad attitude and a piglet.
Sergio Corbucci ditches the stoic cowboy for a rude, scruffy antihero in Tomas Milian’s Jed, who’s so disagreeable he makes most villains blush. Pair him with Susan George’s Sonny, a would-be outlaw with more ambition than scruples, and you get a Western that’s equal parts grit and mischief. Who needs a white hat when you can have a piglet and a coffin getaway?
— SassyFlix Programmer
Sonny and Jed is a 1972 Spain-Italy-Germany Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci about a surly bandit who, with the help of an ambitious young woman, takes on the outlaw life and the law.
Synopsis
She plans to buy a gun and become an outlaw just like Jed. In fact, she’d love to tag along with him for a while to learn the trade. He takes her up on her offer, having her play dead to stop a stage they intend to rob. But when she can’t stand the idea of shooting the passengers, Jed abandons her. Sonny’s facing a long stint in prison when she lands in the hands of Franciscus, partly because she refuses to tell him where to find Jed. Jed comes to the rescue of course, and the two begin a successful string of holdups. Along the way, Sonny falls for the rascal. But Franciscus is still on their trail.
- Director
- Sergio Corbucci
- Writers
- Mario Amendola, Adriano Bolzoni, Sergio Corbucci, José María Forqué, Sabatino Ciuffini
- Release
- 1972
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Country
- Spain, Italy, Germany
- Language
- Italian
- Genres
- Western
- Also Known As
- Sonny and Jed, Far West Story
Why Cult
Director Sergio Corbucci takes the genre off the rails, offering a protagonist who’s as rude as he is resourceful.
Tomas Milian and Susan George spark chaos as an unlikely outlaw pair—one ill-tempered, the other eager to learn.
Trading piglets, hiding in coffins, and stagecoach scams—this isn’t your standard gunslinger fare.
Filmed in Italy, Spain, and Germany, this Western mixes European sensibilities with frontier lawlessness.
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Questions from the Vault
What is Sonny and Jed about? +
Sonny and Jed follows a bandit named Jed and a young woman named Sonny as they team up to take on life as outlaws, stirring up trouble for the law and each other.
Who directed Sonny and Jed? +
Sonny and Jed was directed by Sergio Corbucci.
When was Sonny and Jed released? +
Sonny and Jed was released in 1972.
How long is Sonny and Jed? +
Sonny and Jed has a runtime of 97 minutes.
What genre is Sonny and Jed? +
Sonny and Jed is a Western.
Where can I watch Sonny and Jed? +
You can watch Sonny and Jed on SassyFlix.
