Les Dalton
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Philippe Haïm
Written by	Éric Judor Ramzy Bedia Michel Hazanavicius Philippe Haim
Produced by	Saïd Ben Saïd Yves Marmion
Starring	Eric Judor Ramzy Bedia
Cinematography	David Carretero
Edited by	Richard Marizy
Music by	Alexandre Azaria
Production companies	UGC Images, France Integral Film, Germany Castelao Producciones, Spain TF1 Films Production, France
Distributed by	20th Century Fox (International)
Release date	8 December 2004 (2004-12-08)
Running time	86 minutes
Countries	France Germany Spain
Languages	French German Spanish
Budget	$26 million
Box office	$15 milion

Les Dalton is a 2004 French-German-Spanish Western comedy film directed by Philippe Haïm. It was inspired by the characters The Daltons in the comic Lucky Luke. It was filmed in France, Germany, and Spain. It was released 8 December 2004.

The comic had previously inspired several films, in particular La Ballade des Dalton (1978). The film's budget of $26 million makes it one of the most expensive non-English language films.^{[citation needed]}

The film was presented at the 7th Almería Western Film Festival on October 11, 2017.^[1]

Plot

Joe and Averell are respectively the oldest and youngest of the four Dalton brothers, the most dangerous bandits in the history of the Far West, and their failures are of such calibre that their own mother is turning against them.

But they react when Mama Dalton kicks them out of their own home and they decide to make her proud of them by robbing the Gulch City Bank, where security is so high that even employees are trained in martial arts. They fail in the robbery of the bank and Joe and Averell, along with their brothers, are imprisoned.

In the cell, they meet a Mexican who reveals information about a magic hat that makes him invincible. Joe immediately decides to get the hat, so the four brothers run away from prison and head for Mexico, leaving chaos in their wake. Arguing non-stop, Joe and Averell compete for power in a small town and manage to infiltrate a gang of criminals, where, after a spectacular battle, they steal the magic hat from the bandit who had it. But the problems are only beginning because of the constant and growing rivalry between Joe and Averell and the fact that the law is on their heels. Again in Gulch City, the brothers will try to rob the bank again and get their mother to be proud of them.

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