and here some impressions I just saw on instagram:
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**WOW!
*Happy anniversary… 
Nice
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How is the recent Italian Blu-ray quality-wise?
there’s only a handful of user reviews on the italian Amazon site so far, but mostly positive. the transfer seems to lean towards a yellow color but ostensible a purposeful artistic decision to color grade the restauration that way…
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When I watched this one a few weeks ago as it aired on TV, it struck me that Major Harriman shares quite a few similarities with Hedley Lamarr from Blazing Saddles, both in terms of appearance and [even more so) manners. Harriman looks a bit younger, though.
A little known face, master of arms Giorgio Ubaldi
The picture, taken in more recent years, comes from the interesting documentary ‘Trinità… e fu tempo di fagioli western’ (not to be confused with the 60 min YouTube video focused on locations ‘Nelle terre di Trinità… e fu il tempo dei fagioli’).
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Gave this one a re-watch recently, and it’s still a load of fun. Really goes to show the quality in the Trinity films and the lack of quality in the westerns made to ride the comedy western fad.
I find the sequel more of a “comfort movie”, i.e. it’s more of a feel-good film to watch, but the original is loads more hilarious, including one of my favorite film quotes:
“One shop destroyed. Three heads split like overripe melons. One man wounded and one castrated. All in two hours. Just two hours I left you alone. Two hours.”
That has to be the rawest line in a comedy film.
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@Phil_H and I went to the Bud Spencer museum yesterday, and they had a lot of stuff on display, including original shooting scripts with hand written notes:
the info plaque said that the movie was filmed in English, not sure if true and why, but the script certainly is in English.
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weren’t some spaghetti westerns shot in “English”? so, actors would either:
a) if skilled enough or native speakers, just speak English
b) phonetically speaking English
c) “counting” numbers to the rhythm of English
Most of the “bigger” spaghetti westerns were shot “in English”, so it wouldn’t surprise me if They Call Me Trinity was one of those cases, since director Barboni must’ve had some ambitions for the film, such as international recognition like Leone’s films. The lengthy-ish runtime for both Trinity films at least makes me assume so.
that is the only reason I could think of, because otherwise there isn’t a single English speaker on this cast is there…
Actually, Dan Sturkie (who plays the head Mormon) was actually an English voice dubber, and Steffen Zacharias (the older timer character) grew up in the States. The bad guy was also played by , American actor. Farley Granger. But yeah, aside from them, the cast is pretty much European.
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This movie’s page in the SWDb has been upgraded to the new “SWDb 3.0” format by @Phil_H .
Please have a look and let us know if there’s something you can add (information, trivia, links, pictures, etc.).
Fan of the comedies? Poll for Trinity at the top of the page. 
I saw this one yesterday (on an old Danish widescreen VHS, actually) and really enjoyed it. The music, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, the scenery, everything. Definetly a favorite!
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Interesting comparison US vs new German BluRay: Die rechte und die linke Hand des Teufels - Schnittbericht: US-Blu-ray (Schnittberichte.com)
‘They Call Me Trinity’ premiered in the U.S. in Omaha, Nebraska on September 23 1971. Producer Joe Levine turned down a fat offer to turn his next film, a comedy Western titled “They Call Me Trinity,” into a B’way musical… (Syracuse Herald Journal, November 10, 1971)
The sequel ‘Trinity Is Still My Name’ opened state-wide in Minnesota on July 19 1972.
In the UK the original film debuted at the Gaumont, Liverpool, in mid-August 1972. It had limited distribution and was overshadowed by the sequel, which opened on 3rd February 1974 at Newcastle’s Odeon as support feature to ‘The Day of the Dolphin’. The two first aired on television on Thursday 26th July 1979 (BBC2 21:20 - 23:05) and Thursday 16th August 1979 (BBC2 21:15 - 23:10).
Source below: (Grimsby Evening Telegraph, 25th May, 1973)
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Both Trinity films were heavily abridged for UK release, running little over 90m.
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I watched They Call Me Trinity at the weekend.
I remember it on TV when aged 10 or so but I had to go bed and only got to see the first 20 minutes. I have a very poor quality DVD of it now, wherever it came from
Some great fistfights and comic timing at times. It does drag slightly but is enjoyable. Would watch again sometime
I guess, this movie counteracts the most SW-Cliches in a very funny way, together with it’s successor. Most of the SW-Comedies, before and after this one , were only comedy without any counteracting in relation to the SW-cliches. Most of them were only stupid slapstick or refer to modern cases, or they refer their gags to US-Western. And here, we have all the typical SW-Matters turning into silly situations. Nothing happened in the way, the audience of SW in these years was used to.
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