The right and left hands of the devil
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| German title | The right and left hands of the devil |
| Original title | Lo chiamavano Trinità |
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| Country of production | Italy |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Enzo Barboni |
| script | EB Clucher, Gene Luotto |
| production | Italo Zingarelli |
| music | Franco Micalizzi |
| camera | Aldo Giordani |
| cut | Giampiero Giunti |
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They Call Me Trinity (Original title: Lo chiamavano Trinita ., Dt They called him Trinity ) is an Italian Western comedy from 1970 by EB Clucher and plays around the year 1895. After the hard spaghetti westerns of the 1960s was This was the first western by Bud Spencer and Terence Hill , which was conceived as a comedy and its comedy was largely based on brisk sayings and fights ( whipping wests ). In this respect, it can be regarded as the origin of the typical Spencer Hill films of the 1970s and early 1980s, the success of which was based on these two components. The film opened in German cinemas on March 2, 1971.
content
The Tired Joe , who because of his skillful handling of the gun as the right hand of the devil is known, arrives in a small town in the southwest. There his brother, The Little One, or The Devil's Left Hand ( left-handed Bud Spencer ), pretends to be a sheriff because he believes he shot the right sheriff. So he uses the town as a hiding place to wait for his friends with whom he is planning a big raid.
In the city, however, there is a conflict between the unscrupulous major, a wealthy horse breeder, and the Mormons who have recently settled there . The idealistic Joe soon interferes in the argument, falls in love with two beautiful Mormon girls and decides to stay with the settlers and marry the girls. He persuades the rather clumsy little boy to drive away the major and his cronies with him. When the little boy’s two friends appear, the four of them begin together to train the Mormons to deal with the approaching major and his assistants. When it arrives, everything ends in a huge mass brawl, in which Joe and The Little One excel.
When Joe learns that staying with the Mormons will involve permanent hard work, he prefers to leave without further ado and follows his brother and his friends - without their consent - to California.
Remarks
- In Four Fists for a Hallelujah , the action continues immediately.
- The box office in Italy alone was more than 1.2 billion lire . In Germany, five million viewers saw the film when it was first released in 1971 and another million viewers when it was revived ten years later.
- The child Terence Hill tickles with the revolver as he sits at the table with the settlers is his son Jess .
- Annibale interprets the film song Trinity with I Cantori Moderni . The soundtrack was released on LP and CD. The theme song composed by Franco Micalizzi is also used by Quentin Tarantino in the closing sequence of the film Django Unchained .
synchronization
The German dubbing produced Aventin-Film in 1971. The dialogue book was written by Horst Sommer , who also directed the dubbing.
A new cinema trailer was created by Rainer Brandt for the re-performance in 1981 . Like the sequel Four Fists for a Hallelujah , which was shown again shortly afterwards in the cinemas , it was given a new “ comedy synchro ”. For Bud Spencer you can hear Arnold Marquis in the trailer and Thomas Danneberg for Terence Hill , who can also be heard in the new version of the sequel. However, the film was not completely re-synchronized.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| The tired Joe | Terence Hill | Hartmut Reck |
| The small | Bud Spencer | Wolfgang Hess |
| The major | Farley Granger | Michael Cramer |
| Jonathan | Steffen Zacharias | Ulrich Folkmar |
| Tobias | Dan Sturkie | Wolfgang Amerbacher |
| Mezcal | Remo Capitani | Bruno W. Pantel |
Reviews
The lexicon of international films states that this "parody of the spaghetti westerns with the successful Spencer / Hill duo (...) with this rather crude film fun finally enforced the" funny "western." Joe Hembus also noted, that Hill and Spencer hereby finally became "the Laurel and Hardy of the spaghetti western and the greatest successful duo of the fun western, much imitated, never achieved in quality and effect". Francesco Mininni remarks that director Barboni had no funny western in mind, but luckily he listened to his actors and thus this always funny film came about.
Publications on DVD and Blu-ray
In 2001 the German theatrical version was released on DVD for the first time by ems new media . In 2009 a new edition followed at 3L with an improved image. While some of the cut scenes in the German theatrical version were now included, some of the scenes that were originally present were missing.
In 2013 3L released the film on Blu-ray in the full German theatrical version. For this purpose, a German cinema copy was scanned, which leads to a loss of quality compared to the original negative.
Web links
- They Call Me Trinity in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The right and left hands of the devil. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on July 8, 2017 .
- Overview from cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del Cinema Italiano. I film vol. 4, tomo 1, AL. Rom, Gremese 1996. pp. 415/416
- ↑ Tobias Hohmann: Bud Spencer and Terence Hill - Two sky dogs with four fists . 2nd edition 2011, cover
- ↑ The soundtrack at SoundtrackCorner
- ↑ Thomas Bräutigam : Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors . Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , CD-ROM
- ↑ The right and left hand of the devil. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 23, 2018 .
- ^ Joe Hembus: The Western Lexicon - 1567 films from 1894 to today; extended new edition by Benjamin Hembus; Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-08121-8 . Pp. 599/501
- ^ Francesco Mininni, in: Magazine italiano TV .