Banana Joe
- IMDb link: 0082045
- IMDb rating: 6.3 (9,739 votes)
- Genres: Action, Comedy
- Director: Steno
- Cast: Bud Spencer, Marina Langner, Mario Scarpetta, Gianfranco Barra and others
- Release date: 8 Apr 1982
- Release year: 1982
- Runtime: 96 minutes
- Country: Italy, West Germany
- Keywords: simple man, bouncer, slapstick comedy, character name as title, nickname as title, jungle, latin america, banana trader, jungle village, showering with clothes on
Plot:
Banana Joe, a brawny yet friendly man who lives in a small rainforest village called Amantido with a huge number of his own children and regularly delivers bananas to a South American river port. One day, the henchmen of a local gangster boss named Torsillo come ashore in Amantido to initiate the construction of a banana processing plant. Of course, Joe evicts the goons, who promptly return to their boss. Torsillo finds out that Joe is trading bananas without a license and decides to exploit it. Upon his next delivery, Joe is apprehended by the police and given the choice of either acquiring a legal license or getting his boat impounded and himself arrested for illegal shipment.