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Trinity, a lazy, ne'er-do-well gunfighter with unnaturally fast drawing ability and marksmanship, is dragged on a travois by his horse to a way station and restaurant. There, he encounters a pair of bounty hunters with an injured Mexican prisoner. Trinity calmly takes the Mexican away from the two men, killing them before they can shoot him in the back. The pair reach a small town, where they witness the local sheriff, a large, burly man with a similarly fast drawing ability to Trinity, gunning down three men after they harass him for not allowing one of their criminal friends to be released.
Trinity has fallen in love with two Mormon sisters and is genuinely concerned with the Mormon settlers' welfare. He persuades Bambino and Bambino's henchmen to help train the pacifistic Mormons to fight, and in the final battle, the Mormon leader finds in the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible that "there is a time for fighting" and the Mormons are unleashed against Major Harriman's goons, using the dirty fighting tricks that they have just learned.
Director Enzo Barboni wrote the original story and screenplay for the film.[6] Initially, the script only included the Trinity character and not Bambino but producer Italo Zingarelli suggested the inclusion of a brother.[6] When the film was first announced, Peter Martell was set to play Trinity and George Eastman as Bambino.[7] The two characters were later portrayed by Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, who were then a popular comic duo following the release of Western film God Forgives... I Don't! in October 1967 in Italy, where they were cast as comedic and violent characters.[8] Hill and Spencer did their own stunts in the film with the rest of the supporting cast being portrayed predominantly by stuntmen.[9]
Howard Thompson of The New York Times praised the film's sense of humour, as did Roger Ebert, who gave the film two-and-a-half out of four stars.[14][15] In a review published by Time Out, the film is called "first and best in the Trinity series of spaghetti Westerns, rare in that it is successful in combining laughter and some degree of interest in the action".[16] In his book Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns, author Howard Hughes writes "They Call Me Trinity is Hill and Spencer's finest vehicle".[5]
I don't know why they call him Trinity, except that maybe a mere thirdof the deity would have been insufficient for a hero of suchproportions. In any event, the movie is a spoof of the traditional1960s spaghetti Western. In fact, it is to spaghetti as spaghetti isto macaroni and cheese, a dish I have particularly disliked ever sincethe meat rationing days of World War II.
That was two years ago, and now perhaps "They Call Me Trinity" is the result of such a wish. The people who made "Easy Rider" had all been in lots of cheapo bike pictures before they got together and made the movie they wanted to make. Legend has it, in fact, that the original screenplay of "Easy Rider" was written during the lunch hours of Hells Angels movies. My notion is that "Trinity" is the movie that Girotti and Pedersoli and all the other Italians renamed Hill and Spencer, etc. wanted to make to get even with the genre.
How else to explain "Trinity's" delightful ending? Hill and Spencer,who are outlaws posing as lawmen, decide to defend a band of Mormons who are threatened by the evil Maj. Harriman (played by Farley Granger-who else?). But they toss aside their guns, which is heresy in an Italian Western, And beat up the bad guys with their fists. And the fight is so highly stylized that it looks like a cross between the big production number in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (the one with all the lumberjacks leaping off the dance platform) and the Laurel and Hardy short about a construction gang. Italian Western audiences traditionally laugh at the violence. For once it's funny.
The king is dead, long live the king! In 1970 the Italian western seemed a moribund genre, but this film changed everything. It made a star out of Terence Hill, a blue-eyed, good-looking matinee idol, and Bud Spencer, a former swimming champion, who had represented his country at the Olympics of 1952 (Helsinki) and 1956 (Melbourne). The film did for the comedy western what A Fistful of Dollars had done for the die hard spaghettis : it created a subgenre of its own, spawning an entire army of false sequels, loose sequels, pale imitations and some nice sequels and colorful imitations as well. In Italy, the movie also marks a linguistic turning point: while the diehard western were called spaghetti westerns, the comedy western would be referred to as fagioli westerns (fagioli = beans).
The story of They call me Trinity is surprisingly traditional: it's about two men coming to the aid of a defenseless group of people who are threatened by a corrupt land owner. What made this movie look so fresh, was the presentation of the two Trinity brothers: they're unwashed and unshaved, have very bad table manners, and most of all they're crooks, small-time crooks maybe, but crooks, with no wish to repent. In this first movie we're introduced to Trinity (Hill), a good-for-nothing, lazy and ever-smiling gunslinger who accidently discovers that his fat, grumpy, horse-thieving brother Bambino (Spencer) has become the sheriff of a small western town. Bambino has taken the place of the real sheriff because he wants to steal the horses of a rancher called Major Harrison. To keep his smiling brother happy, Bambino makes him deputy, a particularly stupid decision. Trinity soon causes all kinds of trouble and also makes acquaintance with two lovely Mormon girls, who tell him that their religion permits polygamy. The Mormons have settled in the valley, but Major Harriman is determined to frighten them away. Bambino doesn't want to meddle with anybody's business but his own, but Trinity persuades him to help the Mormons ...
Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but the 2-pak of THEY CALL ME TRINITY/TRINITY IS STILL MY NAME put out by HENSTOOTH VIDEO a couple years ago, are they the official theatrical releases. People over at amazon claim they r edited versions. Someone please clarify. Thanx.
Hi Blonde, I know everybody has been making a big deal about Trinity is still my name being cut, but as far as I can tell there is only one small scene missing from the other available european releases. The scene where their father and mother are talking about how they met. 45 second sequence I believe. I think they took that out because it contradicts the continuity of the first film. In the first film they are only half brothers, but in the second film they share common parents. The running time other from that is shorter because of the faster playing rate.
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Peter, how can you desecrate one of the greatest masterpieces in film history !?!
It would be interesting to see how those Hill/Spencer movies are in the original version. What IS the original version? English? Italian? Their movies used to be very popular in Germany. But I have only seen the dubbed versions. Especially in the 70s, often movies were dubbed in a way which left nothing of the original dialogue content. Some dubbing directors would run amok and write extremely silly dialogue because they thought the originals were not rib-crackingly funny enough. The Hill/Spencer movies were a prominent example of this, so everybody here now thinks of them as extremely silly movies with outdated, forced jokes.
Terence Hill`s "Lucky Luke" failed completely at the German box-offices because everybody thought it was just another installment of those movies which today nobody cares to watch anymore even on afternoon TV. I don`t think it is available on video here, si I have nerver seen it.
By the way, that unfortunate practice of using a movie just as atemplate for the dubbing director`s jokes has completely stopped now and has been replaced by very faithful translations of the original, but I still hate dubbing as such.
Michael
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You fell for it hook line and sinker. I was amazed that so very few people had been replying to my appraisals of some classic films (A fistful of dollars etc) of late I started to wonder whether anyone was reading my reviews. Accordingly I thought the best way to check was to throw in a red herring which is you look carefully is what my review above. Most of what I have written above is a parody. The film was of course not shot in the south west of the USA but in Europe! It is not a serious film but a spoof in itself of the western genre and more particularly the spaghetti western genre. I think there is a lesson here in not taking film critics too seriously!
Seriously though any film that spawns that many sequels must have something going for it. If you think about it what Hill & Spencer did
was to transplant slapstick humor of the Laurel and Hardy, Abbott & Costello or Marx Brothers kind into a spaghetti western film setting. There is really only one way to critic such a film - either the audeience find the film funny or they don't. And I think that the number of sequels suggests that they did find them funny. I personally have a degree of respect for what these guys achieved because it is no mean feat for a pair of Italian actors to star in a series of films that met with success in English markets.I didn't find this film full of huge belly laughs but it works through a solid, if basic plot whilst maintaining one's tongue firmly in one's cheek. The mock fights are pure slapstick and the perpetually disgruntled Bambino's habit of banging opponents on the head with his fist is pure theatre.As the film is predominantly visual humor, the dubbing can be overlooked. The 80% rating still stands. On the subject of Kurosawa, I did find Seven Samurai to be a bit too long but I agree that the film is a classic. cheers Peter
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