“Trinity Is Still My Name” Movie Review

 

“Trinity Is Still My Name”

Movie Review

 

Trinity Is Still My Name is a 1971 Italian spaghetti western comedy film directed by Enzo Barboni. Starring Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer, it is a sequel to 1970s The Call Me Trinity. It was filmed extensively in Campo Imperatore, Abruzzo. It was the highest-grossing Italian film at that time.

In the opening scene, Bambino, played by Bud Spencer, walks through the desert carrying his saddle and finds four fugitive criminals from whom he steals beans and horses. This scene is followed by the opening credits and the title track, after which we see the Trinity played by Terrence Hill on his travois come across the criminals roast a lot of beans and cheat them.

 

Trinity then goes to his family home and finds Bambino taking a shower. Trinity smells so bad that he is told to bathe too, before starting lunch. When four criminals arrive and try to rob the family, the mother sneaks out the back and takes them out at gunpoint after freeing the gun and money.

 

That night, the father pretends to be dying and Trinity and the Bambino offer to work together. While 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 what they find is a family with a sick child nicknamed "Little Windy" by Bambino and a young woman who falls for Trinity. The broken wheel immobilizes the family, so Bambino raises the wagon, and Trinity changes the wheel before giving the family some of the money they stole. As the film progresses, they meet the family with similar bitterness.

 

When Trinity and Bambino arrive in town, they visit a local saloon. Inside, Trinity and Bambino, two cowboys, play cards with wild card Hendricks, a professional sharper. Thanks to his excellent skills, Trinity deals a winning hand to everyone. However, his cards are better, so he wins and Hendricks accuses him of being a cheater. As they leave, Trinity uses his super speed to draw the gun several times, cocking it each time, then punches Hendricks in the face before Wild Card can react. As he leaves, Wildcard tries to shoot Trinity from behind but fails once again.

 

Trinity and Bambino buy new clothes with their winnings. They run into the family they helped earlier and convince the family that they are federal agents working undercover as supposed outlaws, with Bambino as "The Captain" and Trinity as "The Lieutenant". The brothers then go to a dinner party, eat a substantial amount of food, and have no table manners. As they leave, they meet a man who, believing the story that they are federal agents, offers them four thousand dollars to "be blindfolded."

 

The two brothers now go to a town called San Jose, where they fight some criminals, they recognize. This they take to the local sheriff for a reward. The Sheriff informs Trinity and Bambino that everyone in San Jose is working for the guy who paid them four thousand dollars and that they should specifically avoid local jobs. Bambino went to work to check things out and startled the priest by pretending he had come to confess.

 

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, the brothers and monks are naturally victorious, and a group of rangers come out and arrest the outlaws. One of them thinks he recognizes Bambino as a horse thief; to allay his suspicions, Trinity repeats that they are federal agents and gives the stolen loot to the Ranger.

 

As they fight and flee, they see the pioneering family stranded in the river, and the film ends with Trinity riding in to help them.

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