A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe (Italian: Un genio, due compari, un pollo) is a 1975 Spaghetti Western comedy film directed by Damiano Damiani.
He conducts various schemes with his two friends: Creole Steam Engine Bill (Robert Charlebois) and his girlfriend Lucy (Miou-Miou).
The second film produced by Sergio Leone following My Name Is Nobody, it was originally intended as a remake of Bertrand Blier's Going Places in a western setting, but during the screenwriting process it moved towards something different, closer to The Sting.
[2] Parts of the film were shot at the San Juan River and Monument Valley in Utah.
The film was eventually completed printing a new negative from the positive of some sequences and using alternative takes.