Titled “they call me Trinity” abroad, although the original title’s exact translation is “they called him Trinity...”. I love it of course, it’s incredibly famous and so very funny, I almost know it by heart. Who doesn’t love this movie, the most famous of all the Hill-Spencer movies. It’s very funny but it’s not a comic-movie, it’s a western for real, it’s only that it exaggerates (compared to the other movies, that is) certain traits (like how dirty they are) and contains more fist-fights than shootings, and of course the famous way the fight :-D Of course it has some things that might be a little annoying now, but it was 1970, it was a long time ago. The girls characters would be unbearable in a modern movie, and I rather feel sorry for the poor Mexican man whose life they save, yes, but they also turn him into an alcoholic. Nowadays it would be unacceptable but it was 1970, a lot of films were different. This movie already shocked people who saw it when it first came out for how different it was from what people were used to. It’s a lot less violent, for once, because there’s a lot of fighting and some shootings, yes, but in Hill-Spencer movies almost nobody ever dies, and there are never serious consequences, those beaten up will be ready to fight again in another scene.
Also, one can’t fight against imprinting, I watched it first when I was little, since this film came out way before I did, so I can’t even remember when I first watched it, I was probably very little, and back then I found it very very funny and the girls-and-Trinità-locking-eyes-thing was cute to me (although I didn’t much like that there were two of them, I never liked the idea of sharing).
So, details:
It starts with Trinità sleeping on a sort of inclined platform pulled by his horse who seems to know exactly where he wants to go :-P and also where he wants to stop, because the horse stops exactly in front of a coach station. Only then he wakes up yawning, puts on his boots without checking them first, so he has to take it out to throw a scorpion away. He gives some hay to the horse and goes inside to eat, asking the owner to leave the pan with all the cooked beans at the table because just one portion isn’t enough (all that happens with looks and a couple of words: “leave them”). Trinità starts eating like a starving man, with bread and wine. He eats and drinks quickly, burping loudly once and then keeping it up until he’s finished it all, cleaning all the sauce with bread (of course, scarpetta :D).
The only other people present are two bounty-hunters and an injured man. Since he is very very dirty, and very very hungry, they think he might be running away from the law, but he’s not on their list of wanted criminal so they let him be. Still, he doesn’t like them and the way they’re treating the wounded man, only caring that he survives enough time to get their reward. Apparently this is not a ‘dead-or-alive’ case but only ‘alive’ . Before leaving, Trinità tells the injured man to go with him, making the two angry. But before fighting, they ask his name: “they call me Trinità” to which they reply: “Trinità! the right hand of the devil!” and they try to shoot him in the back but he shoots them without even turning around. He asks the man what he did, and he explains that his woman was doing laundry at the river when a gringo came trying to rape her (“a gringo assaulted her and wanted her”). He rushed to help her, he had a knife. ‘The gringo looked at him and died, maybe hitting his head because he only gave him a few stabs’ :-p Trinità places him on the rack to rest shile he mounts the horse. They head into town where they see that the sheriff is being threatened by three men who want their friend released. Trinità has his horse walk in between them giving him a smirk, but does nothing to help, sure that if they try anything he’ll kill them. The sheriff is clearly not happy to see him :-p When the injured man asks who that is, Trinità says “the left hand of the devil” because he’s left handed. Together they take the bullet out of the man, giving him a lot of alcohol to drink as anaesthetic. The sheriff is Bambino (meaning male child), Trinità’s brother. It’s funny how Bambino raises the man like a weightless-child to sit him on the desk, the way he uses alcohol to clean the knife but then he dries it on his dirty shirt :-p Now the poor man is drunk and says that ‘gringos are bastards’ because ‘you want our women and get angry if someone stabs you’ :-p
Bambino doesn’t like having Trinità around, because he always brings trouble :-p so he wants Trinità to leave town, but of course he won’t. He’s so annoyed that for a second he loses his appetite, but finds it again immediately :-p
Bambino is now the sheriff because, he says, after he escaped from jail he saw a man following him, actually only going the same way, but he shot him and he fell from his horse, so he took the new-sheriff’s badge and came into town waiting for his men (faina & timido = beech marten and shy ). They are horse-thieves. The sheriff’s helper Jonathan comes to tell him that some of the major’s men beat up some farmers (the mormons), and to keep up his sheriff-persona he needs to do something. First Jonathan forces Trinità to have a bath :-p then Bambino goes to talk to the major about his men, giving him a last warning, also hitting one man on the head because he tried to provoke him, and pointing his rifle to another who had decided to stand up, while Trinità prevented the one a bit far away to do anything :-p
Bambino is annoyed that the major keeps bothering the farmers, because the rangers would get involved and he’d have to run away before his men arrive, and also because he plans to steal the major’s horses. Trinità suggests helping the farmers, but Bambino has no help... so now he tries asking for his help but he refuses in a mocking way :-p
The major is not the only one bothering the farmers, there’s also Mezcal and his gang of criminals, they like to beat them and eat their food and wine (even though the farmers don’t drink and don’t have any).
The major of course owns the local groceries shop and orders to not sell them anything, but when Trinità sees two beautiful girls with the farmer thrown out of the shop, he helps them to buy what they need. He waits for the farmers to go away before fighting Jeff and one other of the major’s men, then he goes into the saloon and starts messing with the major’s solitaire by moving his cards around until the major says ‘there’s a knight too much here’ (“qui c’è un fante di troppo”) to which Trinità says ‘no, here there’s a major too much’ (“no, qui c’è un maggiore di troppo”) and again warns him to let the farmers be.
Bambino is angry that he left him alone for only two hours and he caused troubles already, but Trinità only thinks of the girls’ eyes... so he provokes him demanding to become his vice-sheriff, blackmailing , or he’ll tell that he’s a horse-thief.
Immediately Trinità enters the saloon where they are talking about him and his mother, trying to start a fight. Jonathan runs to wake up the sheriff telling him his brother is in trouble and with a hopeful face he asks ‘did they kill him?’ :-p when he gets there, Trinità tells him that they offended the law and their mother, then they put their badges into their pockets, Jonathan takes away all weapons, and they start fist-fighting. Most of the guys go against Bambino, but Trinità helps a bit too :-p but not much... and as an excuse for the fight he says he got angry when they insulted his mom saying she’s an old hooker ‘but it’s the truth’ - ‘well, she’s not old’.
Together they go meeting the farmers, and when they see them Tobias yells ‘hello brothers’ - ‘did you tell him that we’re brothers?’ - ‘no, I don’t know him’ :-p and Tobias ‘the Lord sent you among us’ - ‘no, we were just passing by’ :-p
Tobias thanks them for helping Sara and Giuditta and offers to dine together, but then Mezcal comes back with his men. He sits down to eat but gets angry because there is no wine and lines them up to hit them one by one, then he sees Bambino: ‘this is new, I never hit him before’, but Bambino doesn’t flinch, instead he reacts hitting him once and knocking him out. Mezcal and his men go away :-p
After a few honey words from the girls on the power of love, they go away too.
The major has hired two men in black against them, but it doesn’t take long for Trinità to pick a fight with them, until they run away in their long underwear :-p The major demands both their resignations or he’ll talk to the governor, but Bambino only nods.
There’s a bounty on Bambino’s head because he didn’t kill the sheriff, only injured him :-p Bambino sends Trinità away, and he goes to the farmers to play with the girls in the river, who tells him that in their community they practice polygamy so he already imagines himself with both of them (what they already do at the river, we don’t see).
They give him new clothes, then Trinità tells them to strike back when bad guys come. Faina and Timido arrive and Trinità understands who they are right away and tells them where to find Bambino. They tell their boss that they saw someone following them and they shot him and he fell off the horse, but he wasn’t after them only going the same way, a crippled sheriff :-p but they didn’t kill him :-p
Trinità shows up again dressed like the farmers, asking his help against the major and then he’ll get married (to Sara or Giuditta, he hasn’t decided yet) and get settled forever. He is serious and swears on his mother, so Bambino agrees to help him.
The major goes to Mezcal offering a deal: he makes the farmers leave the valley and the major will ‘let them’ steal some of his horses :-p
Trinità, Bambino, Faina and Timido try to teach the farmers to fight, but they are not very good :-p
Trinità spots one of Mezcal’s men, Emiliano, spying on them so they have him spill everything. As it often happens, Trinità is the one who can think and plan, but he pretends that it’s all Bambino’s thinking :-p (they’ll do this again in other movies). So they take the Mexican’s place in stealing the horses (and not only the planned 20). When they are out, the poor sheriff with two crutches comes looking for the three of them, and Jonathan hurries to warn him.
Trinità says that the horses are safe somewhere in the valley. Jonathan warns him, taking with him the now-alcoholic-Mexican from the beginning.
When the major comes with his men and Mezcal’s gang, they hide and then force him to stop and surrender all weapons, threatening him with a rifle to his head, and when they are all disarmed, they all fight, even the farmers. There’s a lot of smack-sounds and people flying around, and positioning the adversary to the punches look more real :-p until all the bad guys are on the floor unable to keep fighting.
When it’s over, the major asks for his horses back but they send him away suggesting he moves to Nebraska.
Bambino sends his man to get the horses, but they have now been all marked by the farmers. He’s very angry, and Jonathan too because he wanted a share, and Bambino leaves with his men.
Trinità stays behind, but then he learns that by staying there he would not simply get the girls, he should work all day, be a farmer, help them with the building and the animals and everything, so when they have finished praying Trinità is already far away, after Bambino.
Bambino heads west to California, telling him to go east; when the injured sheriff asks him after them, he points him in the right direction (poor sheriff).
Then Trinità lies down in his old rack and tells his horse to go to California.....
Cast
Trinità - Terence Hill
Bambino - Bud Spencer
Tobias - Dan Sturkie
Sara - Gisela Hahn
Giuditta - Elena Pedemonte
Faina - Ezio Marano
Timido - Luciano Rossi
Mezcal - Remo Capitani
Jeff - Riccardo Pizzuti (one of the stunt-men that we often see in their movies. They were often the same group of stuntmen , directly acting the part, and he’s the face I can usually recognise)
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