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Dec 22, 1970  Directed by Enzo Barboni. With Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Steffen Zacharias, Dan Sturkie. A lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major, a Mexican bandit, and their henchmen. Trinity - Poker scene (1972 Trinity Is Still My Name) - Duration: 5:04. Palitobcn 4,140,195 views.

They Call Me Trinity (Italian: Lo chiamavano Trinità..) is a 1970 Italian Spaghetti Westerncomedy film written and directed by Enzo Barboni (under the pseudonym of E.B. Clucher) and produced by Italo Zingarelli. The film stars Terence Hill and Bud Spencer as two brothers, Trinity and Bambino, who help defend a Mormon settlement from Mexican bandits and the henchman of the land-grabbing Major Harriman. It was filmed on location in Lazio, Italy, with financial backing from West Film.

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Plot[edit]

Trinity, a lazy, ne'er-do-wellgunfighter 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.

It becomes apparent that Trinity and the man, Bambino, are brothers. Bambino is merely posing as the new sheriff of the small town while he awaits the arrival of his gang from the penitentiary from which he escaped, following a run-in with the actual sheriff who incidentally took the same way as Bambino on his way to his new post. Bambino is not happy to see his trouble-making brother. However, the two form a temporary partnership to deal with Major Harriman, who is attempting to run a group of pacifist Mormon farmers off their land with the intention of using their property to graze his own horses. The fact that these horses are valuable and unbranded explains Bambino's grudging willingness to work with his little brother, even though he considers Trinity to be a shiftless bum without ambition.

However, 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.

Bambino is flabbergasted and infuriated to learn that Trinity has given the Major's horses to the Mormons. Trinity is about to be happily married to the two Mormon sisters when he learns that being a married Mormon means actually having to work, causing him to hurry after Bambino, who angrily sends him off in the opposite direction. After Bambino departs for California, the real sheriff appears, and Trinity points him in Bambino's direction. Trinity then reclines in his travois and brings up the rear with his horse, following them all.

Cast[edit]

• Terence Hill as Trinity, 'The Right Hand of the Devil'
• Bud Spencer as Bambino, 'The Left Hand of the Devil'
• Farley Granger as Major Harriman
• Steffen Zacharias [de] as Jonathan
• Dan Sturkie [de] as Tobias
• Gisela Hahn as Sarah
• Elena Pedemonte [de] as Judith
• Ezio Marano as Weasel
• Luciano Rossi as Timid
• Michele Cimarosa [it] as Drunken Mexican
• Ugo Sasso as Sheriff Zoppo
• Remo Capitani as Mezcal
• Riccardo Pizzuti [it] as Jeff
• Paolo Magalotti [it] as Harriman Henchman
• Antonio Monselesan [it] as Bounty Hunter
• Gaetano Imbrò as Blond Bounty Hunter
• Gigi Bonos as Ozgur, the Bartender

Production[edit]

Director Enzo Barboni wrote the original story and screenplay for the film.^[4] Initially, the script only included the Trinity character and not Bambino but producer Italo Zingarelli suggested the inclusion of a brother.^[4] When the film was first announced, Peter Martell was set to play Trinity and George Eastman Bambino.^[5] 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 would were cast as comedic and violent characters.^[6] Both Hill and Spencer did their own stunts in the film with the rest of the supporting cast being portrayed predominantly by stuntmen.^[7]

Interiors and the towns set in the film were shot at Incir De Paolis Studios in Rome.^[2][5] The stage station was shot at Magliana quarry in Lazio, while the valley locations were shot at Parco Dei Monti Simbruini. ^[5][8] The waterfall scene was shot at Treja Valley Park.^[5][8]

The main title song was written by Franco Micalizzi and Lally Stott.^[9][10] It is sung by David King, who is billed as 'Annibale' on Italian soundtrack releases.^[10] “Trinity: Titoli” was later used as the closing theme for Quentin Tarantino's 2012 Western Django Unchained.^[11]

Release[edit]

They Call Me Trinity was released just before Christmas in 1970 in Italy.^[5][10] The film was popular abroad, such as in Spain where it out grossed all previous Italian Westerns except For A Few Dollars More.^[10] The film was released in the United States and United Kingdom in 1971.^[10] As of 2004, They Call Me Trinity was the 22nd most successful Italian film, one position below The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.^[12]

Following the popularity of the film, derivative films were released such as Two Sons of Trinity and the Carambola which featured Spencer and Hill lookalikes Michael Coby and Paul L. Smith.^[10] Other films also started with the They Call Me.. title, including They Call Me Hallelujah, They Call Me Cemetery, and They Call Me Holy Ghost.^[12] An official sequel was released as Trinity Is Still My Name which was even more successful than They Call Me Trinity.^[12]

Critical reception[edit]

Howard Thompson of The New York Times praised the film's sense of humour, as did critic Roger Ebert, the latter of whom gave the film two-and-a-half out of possible four stars.^[13][14] 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'.^[15] 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'.^[12]

References[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

1. ^Alberto Del Forno (April 26, 2017). 'Lo chiamavano Trinità: 10 curiosità sul film con Bud Spencer e Terence Hill'. talkymedia.it (in Italian). Retrieved November 17, 2018.
2. ^ ^abcdefgHughes 2004, p. 229.
3. ^'TOP250 tous les temps en Italie (Reprises incluses)'. JP's Box-office. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
4. ^ ^abHughes 2004, p. 231.
5. ^ ^abcdeHughes 2004, p. 232.
6. ^Hughes 2004, p. 230.
7. ^Hughes 2004, p. 236.
8. ^ ^abHughes 2004, p. 233.
9. ^Hughes 2004, p. 237.
10. ^ ^abcdefHughes 2004, p. 238.
11. ^Nash, Jay Robert (1 November 2019). The Encyclopedia of Best Films: A Century of All the Finest Movies, V-Z. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 3285. ISBN9781538134191.
12. ^ ^abcdHughes 2004, p. 239.
13. ^Howard Thompson (May 11, 1972). 'The Screen:'They Call Me Trinity' Relies on Humor'. The New York Times. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
14. ^Roger Ebert (November 25, 1971). 'They Call Me Trinity Movie Review (1971)'. RogerEbert.com. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
15. ^'They Call Me Trinity'. Time Out. Archived from the original on November 22, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.

Sources[edit]

• Hughes, Howard (2004). Once Upon a Time in the Italian West. I. B. Tauris. ISBN1-85043-430-1.

My Name Trinity

External links[edit]

• They Call Me Trinity on IMDb
• They Call Me Trinity at Rotten Tomatoes

My Name Is Trinity Cast

Trinity Is Still My Name (Italian: ..continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità, lit. '..they kept calling him Trinity') is a 1971 Italian Spaghetti Westerncomedyfilm directed by Enzo Barboni. Starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, it is a sequel to They Call Me Trinity (1970). It was shot extensively in Campo Imperatore, Abruzzo.^[3] The film was the top-grossing Italian film of its time.

Plot[edit]

In the opening sequence, Bambino (Bud Spencer) is walking through the desert carrying his saddle and finds four escaped convicts, from whom he steals their beans and horses. This scene is followed by the opening credits and the title song, after which we see Trinity (Terence Hill) on his travois. He too comes across the convicts frying more beans, and also tricks them.

Trinity then continues to his family home and finds Bambino having a bath. Trinity smells so bad that he is told to bathe, too, before everyone starts lunch. When the four convicts show up and try to rob the family, the mother sneaks around from the back and ushers them out with a shotgun after they are relieved yet again of their guns and money.

That night, the father pretends to be dying and makes Trinity and Bambino promise to work together. As Bambino is teaching Trinity how to be a successful horse thief, they see a wagon with two tired mules and decide to rob the passengers. But all they find is a family with a sick baby (nicknamed 'Little Windy' by Bambino) and a young girl who falls for Trinity. The family isn't moving because of a broken wheel, so Bambino lifts the wagon and Trinity changes the wheel, before giving the family some of the money they have stolen. As the film progresses they keep encountering the family, with much the same gags.

When Trinity and Bambino arrive in town, they head to the local saloon. Inside, Trinity, Bambino, and two cowboys play cards with a professional sharper named Wild Card Hendricks. Thanks to his superior skills, Trinity deals everybody a potentially winning hand. However, his cards are better, so he wins and is accused by Hendricks of being a cheat. When they square off, Trinity displays his extreme speed by drawing his gun a number of times, each time holstering it and then slapping Hendricks in the face, all before Wild Card can react. As he leaves, Wild Card tries to shoot Trinity from behind but is foiled once again.

Trinity and Bambino buy new suits with their winnings. Running into the family they helped earlier, they convince the family that they are federal agents working undercover as supposed outlaws, with Bambino as 'The Captain' and Trinity 'The Lieutenant'. Then the brothers go into a smart restaurant for dinner, consuming huge quantities of food with a notable lack of table manners. When they leave, they meet a man who, believing the story about their being federal agents, gives them four thousand dollars to 'keep their eyes shut.'

The two brothers now travel to a town called San José where they start a bar brawl with some convicts they recognize. These they take to the local sheriff for the bounty. The sheriff informs Trinity and Bambino that everyone in San José works for the man who paid them the four thousand dollars and that they should avoid the local mission especially. Paying a visit to the mission to check things out, Bambino pretends that he has come to confess, considerably shocking the priest with his long list of transgressions (covered up by loud organ music so the audience can't hear).

That night they find that the man who paid them off also uses the mission for gun-running and to store stolen loot, with his men disguised as monks. The brothers convince the real monks into helping them beat the outlaws, while actually planning to take the loot for themselves. After a long fight, which the brothers and the monks naturally win, a group of Rangers shows up and arrests the outlaws. One of them thinks he recognizes Bambino as a wanted horse thief; to allay his suspicions, Trinity repeats that they are federal agents and gives the Ranger the stolen loot.

As they ride away squabbling, they see the pioneering family stuck fording the river (as they were once before) and the film ends with Trinity riding down to help them.

Cast[edit]

• Terence Hill – Trinity
• Bud Spencer – Bambino
• Yanti Somer – Trinity's girl, the farmer's daughter
• Harry Carey, Jr. – Trinity and Bambino's father
• Jessica Dublin – Farrah, Trinity and Bambino's mother
• Emilio Delle Piane – Parker
• Enzo Tarascio – sheriff
• Pupo De Luca – head monk
• Benito Stefanelli – Stingary Smith
• Riccardo Pizzuti – chief of the Dallas gunmen
• Enzo Fiermonte – wandering farmer
• Dana Ghia – farmer's wife
• Franco Ressel – maitre d'
• Gérard Landry – Lopert
• Luigi Bonos – Ozgur, the bartender
• Antonio Monselesan – Wild Card Hendricks

Box office[edit]

The film was a huge financial success, becoming the top-grossing Italian film up to then, with 14,554,172 admissions in Italy^[1] - a distinction previously held by its predecessor, They Call Me Trinity.^[4]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'La classifica dei film più visti di sempre al cinema in Italia'. movieplayer.it. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
2. ^'Big Rental Films of 1973', Variety, 9 January 1974 p 19
3. ^Donato, Rosanna (27 April 2017). 'Lo chiamavano Trinità, ecco dove è stato girato il film tanto amato dal pubblico'. Funweek (in Italian). Retrieved 9 December 2018.
4. ^Rombi, Roberto (29 December 1999). 'La vita è bella regina d' incassi' [Life Is Beautiful is box-office queen]. la Repubblica (in Italian). Rome: 47. Retrieved 27 March 2010.

External links[edit]

• Trinity Is Still My Name on IMDb
• Trinity Is Still My Name at Rotten Tomatoes