Adiós Amigo

Fred Williamson plays Big Ben, an honest, fast-drawing cowboy who becomes the unwilling decoy for Sam Spade, a talkative con man played by Richard Pryor. Sam's scams leave Big Ben explaining the trouble in one frontier town after another. [AFI Catalog](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/55873-ADIOS-AMIGO?cp=1&pos=2&sid=74360ced-c779-4e73-beaf-573800f67f3c&sr=0.097315714)

Fred Williamson and Richard Pryor lead the cast as Big Ben and Sam Spade, with James Brown appearing as the sheriff. Williamson also wrote, produced, and directed the film. [AFI Catalog](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/55873-ADIOS-AMIGO?cp=1&pos=2&sid=74360ced-c779-4e73-beaf-573800f67f3c&sr=0.097315714)

The AFI Catalog records its United States release as December 25, 1975, and lists the film at 87 minutes. Some databases label it 1976, but 1975 is the date supported by the AFI entry. [AFI Catalog](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/55873-ADIOS-AMIGO?cp=1&pos=2&sid=74360ced-c779-4e73-beaf-573800f67f3c&sr=0.097315714)

It is a comedy Western with Black leads, written and directed by Fred Williamson during the 1970s blaxploitation era. Its humor comes from scams, mistaken blame, frontier violence, and the mismatch between Big Ben's honesty and Sam's schemes. [AFI Catalog](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/55873-ADIOS-AMIGO?cp=1&pos=2&sid=74360ced-c779-4e73-beaf-573800f67f3c&sr=0.097315714)