E poi lo chiamarono il magnifico (1972)

Director:

Enzo Barboni

Writer:

Enzo Barboni (written by)

Release Date:

28 September 1972 (West Germany)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Western

Tagline:

He's A Fun-of-a-Gun!

Plot:

By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights...

Plot Keywords:

Bicycle | Spaghetti Western | Greenhorn | Cowboy | Hit In The Face

Cast

Terence Hill	...	Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore
Gregory Walcott	...	Bull Schmidt
Yanti Somer	...	Candida Austin
Dominic Barto	...	Monkey Smith
Harry Carey Jr.	...	Holy Joe (as Harry Carey)
Enzo Fiermonte	...	Frank Austin
Danika La Loggia	...	Iris
Riccardo Pizzuti	...	Morton Clayton
Jean Louis	...	Prison Warden
Alessandro Sperli	...	Tim
Sal Borgese	...	Bounty Hunter #2 (as Salvatore Borgese)
Steffen Zacharias	...	Stagecoach Driver
Luigi Casellato	...	Boarding House Owner
Pupo De Luca	...	Prison Director
Rigal Suzanne Leone

Also Known As:

A Man from the East
El Magnifico (Italy)
Et maintenant, on l'appelle El Magnifico (France)
Magnifico, l'uomo dell'Est (Italy)
Man of the East (UK)
Ein Gentleman im wilden Westen (East Germany) [de]
I després li van dir el magnífic (Spain: Catalan title) [ca]
Mannen från öst (Sweden) [sv]
Mies idästä (Finland) [fi]
Trinita: O anthropos ap' tin Anatoli (Greece) [el]
Verflucht, verdammt und Halleluja (West Germany) [de]
Y después le llamaron el magnífico (Spain) [es]

Runtime:

Germany:125 min | USA:123 min

Country:

Italy | France | Yugoslavia

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 | West Germany:12 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | Canada:AA (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Plitvice, Yugoslavia

Company:

Jadran Film

Quotes:

Holy Joe: [reading the Englishman's last letter] I don't know whether I'll find rich green grass or tough weeds up there. But, if there's rich grass, praise be to God! If there's nothing but weeds... praise be to God. The only thing I'll miss is your friendship. For the rest, I have no regrets.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Profession: Acrobat - An Afternoon with Riccardo Pizzuti (2008) (V)

Not bad, but I've seen better

I must admit, this was not the worst Terence Hill film I've ever seen but certainly one of his worst ones. The jokes are not too frequent and there is too much made of the romance. For me the highlights of his career are still the movies he made with Bud Spencer. Some of those are really hilarious. On his own I find Terence Hill not to be too entertaining. His best solo works is Renegade.

6 out of 10

P.s.: I watched the german dubbed version (as I always do) for these films are hard to come by, plus I find the voices and the dialogues much better in German than I do in Italian