“THEY CALL ME TRINITY” MOVIE REVIEW

TERENCE HILL AND BUD SPENCER

“THEY CALL ME TRINITY”

MOVIE REVIEW

They Call Me Trinity is an Italian spaghetti western comedy film written and directed by Enzo Barboni and produced by Italo Gingerelli released in 1970. The film stars Terence Hill and Bud Spencer as two brothers, Trinity and Bambino, who help to protect a Mormon settlement from Mexican bandits and land grabber Major Harriman. Movie was filmed on location in Lazio, Italy.

The story of the film revolves around Trinity, a lazy gunfighter with an unnaturally fast draw skill and a shot of ammunition, who is dragged on a travois by his horse to a way station and restaurant. There he encounters a pair of bounty hunters with a wounded Mexican prisoner. Trinity calmly pulls the Mexican away from the two men, killing them before they shoot him in the back. The pair arrive in a small town where they meet the local sheriff, a quick-witted man similar to Trinity, who shoots three people dead after harassing him for not letting one of his criminal friends go free.

It is clear that Trinity and Bambino are siblings. 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 troublemaking brother. However, the two forms a temporary partnership to deal with Major Harriman, who is trying to drive a group of pacifist Mormon farmers off their land, intending to use their property to graze their own horses. The fact that these horses are expensive and unbranded explains Bambino's preference to work with his little brother, whom he regards as a changeless bum with no ambition.

However, Trinity falls in love with two Mormon sisters and genuinely cares for the welfare of Mormon immigrants. He helps Bambino and Bambino's henchmen train the appeasing Mormons to fight, and in the final battle, the Mormon leader discovers in the book of Ecclesiastes that the Bible says "there is a time for fighting" and Mormons unleashes against the Major Harriman thugs use the dirty fighting tactics they just learned.

Bambino is flabbergasted and infuriated to learn that Trinity has given the Major's horses to the Mormons. Happily married to two Mormon sisters, Trinity realizes that a married Mormon might actually have to work, so rushes after Bambino, who angrily sends him in the opposite direction. After Bambino leaves for California, the real sheriff shows up 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.

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