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Spaghetti Western with Extra Sauce
This is a delightful comedy spoofing the spaghetti western genre. It does do with a saucy sense of humor. <
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>The story is of a pair of brothers. One is an outlaw posing as a sherrif to hide from the law. The other is a ne'er do well brother who is fast with a gun and faster with his dry wit. Each brother for his own reasons decides to help a group of Mormon farmers and protect them from the guy who wants their valley. The old brother does so because he wants to steal the rich man's horses. The younger just wants to steal the Mormon's daughters. <
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>Nothing is taken too seriously in this film including fancy production values. It comes across as an inexpensively made Italian Wester because that is what it is. That does not prevent it from being entertaining. Unfortunately, the low production values seem to have carried over into the DVD transfer. I don't know is this is due to the poor quality of the original film or if it was just a bad job. Whatever the case, it is still very watchable and enjoyable. <
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>This one is not particularly edifying but it is fun.

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TERRIBLE QUALITY PICTURE
I have purchased the double sided DVD with both movies - They Call Me Trinity and Trinity Is Still My Name. The DVD is recorded by "Quality Special Products". What a misleading name. The picture is terrible, like a 3rd copy from a VCR tape. I have the same DVD from German e-m-s in widescreen and with very good picture.
I do not recommend buying "Quality" recording, it is WASTE OF MONEY.

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Max Brand, Italian style
First, let me explain the three stars are for the DVD, not the Trinity Boys (they are 5 star all the way). What we need is a digital restoration of Terence Hill movies. The Spaghetti Western genre relied on several gimmicks: obtuse plots, quirky characters, superhuman heroes, great music, and lastly INTENSE,VIBRANT COLORS. Unless you catch them on the Western Channel, almost all home video versions of these movies are faded travesties. This dvd is better than most, but is nothing compared to the original. This is even more true of Boot Hill.If you've never seen the intensity of Terence Hill's blue eyes set into his impossibly tan face, then you can't begin to realize how much the color has faded. I remember watching Terence Hill in Boot Hill back at a drive-in and thinking "my gosh, he's darker than Woody Strode!"
As for Trinity, it holds up wonderfully 30 years later as a classic parody of Spaghetti Westerns. The two brothers are straight out of the more humorous work of Max Brand: gifted with extraordinary skill bordering on the supernatural with which they better their adversaries in outlandish ways. The sequel was just as good and I wish they had made ten more of them. Lacking that, somebody please restore these wonderful films!