Tina cleans up

Movie
German title	Tina cleans up
Original title	La sceriffa
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1959
length	104 (German v. 96) minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Roberto Bianchi Montero
script	Mario Amendola Ruggero Maccari
production	Guido Paolucci
music	C. Louvre
camera	Sergio Pesce (black and white)
cut	Ettore Salvi
occupation
Tina Pica : Sheriff Carmelita Esposito Tina De Mola : Dolly, the singer Tom Felleghy : Donovan, the saloon owner Livio Lorenzon : Jimmy Jesse Carlo Sposito : Gennarino, Carmelita's nephew (as Carletto Sposito ) Anna Alberti : Connie Dallas (as Annie Albert ) Tino Scotti : the judge Alberto Sorrentino : Ugly times Fanfulla : Ciccillo, called Frank, the deputy sheriff Anita Todesco : Red Cloud Leonardo Severini : Connie's father Carlo Pisacane : Nick Benito Stefanelli : Fulton Jesse Philip Kay Stelio Candelli : a brother of Jesse Gino Marturano : Saloon guest Nino Musco : bartender Bruno Carotenuto : Tom Strike Paolo Gozlino : Prairie wind Maria Capparelli : Lecy Ugo Tognazzi : Colorado Joe

Tina cleans up (original title: La sceriffa ) is an Italian western comedy from 1959. First performance in German-speaking countries was on September 9, 1960.

action

The residents of Rio Cinceio are harassed by a gang of outlaws led by the saloon owner Donovan. The sheriff tries to enforce the law; that costs the lives of the former Confederate soldiers. Then his widow Donna Carmela Esposito from Naples decides to take his place, determined to help the people of the city to their rights and to clear up the rabble. After showing her courage towards Donovan's right-hand man Blacky for the first time, she is appointed sheriff. Through her skillful use of the weapon, her courage and her southern Italian cunning, she manages to outsmart the gangsters time and again. Even with the help of good red wine, she succeeds in restoring peace in the village. Then she'd rather go back to Naples.

criticism

This is an “insignificant Western that tries in vain to ridicule relevant American genre films; neither entertaining nor funny ", so the lexicon of the international film . The Italian colleagues complain that opportunities are wasted because the film was shot “with few resources and too hastily”, although it could have been more pleasant with “more care and attention”. Christian Keßler notes that this 23rd film by the director is an example of “the comedies of that time that tried to pimp up the already grazed ways of the local comedy nobility by adding genre parodic elements”. Despite the inalienability of the predominant dialect jokes in the original, the film is "reasonably entertaining".

Remarks

The film song Colorado Joe is interpreted by Roberto Altamura .

The film grossed a quarter of a billion lire in Italy .

Web links

• Tina cleans up in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Italian sources usually give 90 minutes
2. ↑ ^{a b} Tina cleans up the lexicon of international film
3. ↑ Vice in Corriere Lombardo , April 4, 1961
4. ↑ Christian Keßler: Welcome to Hell . 2002, p. 220
5. ^ Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film, Vol. 2. Dal 1945 al 1959 . Rome 1991, p. 323