Plot

A young guy-riding western lover singer named Tony Martelli want to be a free guy, instead of studying as his father want. So, with his friends, he enjoy many funny adventures, like being on a set by a Sergio Corbucci western.

If Little Tony, the true Italian hero of rock and roll until the last day, is the protagonist here with his songs, the comedy rests on the shoulders of the trio composed of Ferruccio Amendola, Lucio Flauto and Oreste Lionello (with the touch of class by Raimondo Vianello as a somewhat stupid investigator), aspiring artists (actor, painter and poet), penniless roommates of Little in a miserable apartment with an unobstructed view of the Eternal City. Antonio - Little Tony, on the other hand, is an aspiring car racer mechanic who, to scrape together some money, exhibits in the restaurants of the city. And it is precisely in the role of singer that he will find his fortune thanks to producer J. K. Deline, who will prefer him to Elvis Presley for a film to be shot in the United States.

It will be by attending the cinema scene that the relationship between him and his girlfriend Giulia (recipient of the song "My love with Giulia", side B of the single of "Riderà") will be put to the test. It goes without saying that everything will find an ideal solution and the film will end with Little leaving for America, providing the starting point for a sequel, Cuore matto ... matto da tie, shot the following year by Amendola alone but again written with Corbucci.

The film, which like all those belonging to the genre finds its strength in the pre-videoclip musical performances, and in the comic curtains that aim to strengthen the rhythm thanks to character actors who raise the acting quality - not excellent, it must be said - of the lead singers, presents an overflowing scene in which the shabby quartet is seen engaged on the set of a western directed by Sergio Corbucci (brother of Bruno and author of the essential Django the previous year), in which the director of photography also appears Riccardo Pallottini.