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12 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :- Idiotic and enjoyable spaghetti western comedy, 1 October 2002 Author: Mika Pykäläaho (bygis80@hotmail.com) from Järvenpää, Finland
I remember surprisingly clearly when I saw the superb "Man of the east" in a television as a little kid and utterly loved it, even though it certainly was quite a long time ago. That crazy image of a wacky, foolishly dressed lad riding a bicycle in the middle of a dusty wild west town is something that I probably just found a pretty damn impossible sight to forget.Yesterday, years and years afterwards I found this silly movie in the western section of my local video store and I just had to rent it immediately. To make this simple: "Man of the east" is poorly made, naive, illogical and idiotic and mostly because of it it's absolutely terrific experience.Mario Girotti, better known as Mr. Terence Hill is one of the funniest if not the funniest guy in the history of westerns. His appearance is so firm and steady and in the same time simpleminded and his expressions are so self-satisfied I found it irresistible. I thought Trinity-films were excellent but this is a proof that he can also manage without Bud Spencer.This movie is so incredibly stupid I can only love it! For example the scene where that bloke is waking up, carefully opens his eyes and gets the first glimpse of Sir Thomas More stretching in a sweater is simply hilarious! My brother who also watched "Man of the east" described it as "the best Terence Hill movie". He might just be right. I you like dumb tongue in a cheek spaghetti western comedies this one is perfect for you. 8/10
7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :- the best terence hill film ever, 8 March 2001 Author: (guy.guisborne@gmx.net)
I allways liked Bud Spencer and Terence Hill films as a kid. And I still think some of them are quiet good and fun to watch, but this one is different (in a way). Of course there's fights in the typical terence hill style (with the favorite opponent Riccardo Pizzuti), but then there's this fine irony, the melancoly sometimes and the story of the greenhorn coming to the wild west, having no idea about it and getting into big trouble without realizing it.
8 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :- One of the most complete movies ever made, 20 January 2001 Author: Tobias Landes from Munich, Germany
This is, except perhaps for Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid", my favorite movie at all. It's biggest quality is its completeness in almost every respect. Completeness in its themes, in its means, and a glorious cast.It's a film most of all about friendship (I most often think of the scene where monkey, usually the most 'rude' of the protagonists, eagerly grasps the last letter of their dead friend, and then, realizing he can't read at all, is forced to pass the letter to Holy Joe, but in fact the friendship theme is present in the whole movie), about the antagonism of freedom and civilization, about the need and the struggle to find and defend your own position towards everything surrounding you (the 'star' to follow), about how dreams and reality can influence each other (remember the scene of Candida experiencing the man of her dreams riding towards her in a gracious slow motion, while Terence Hill in fact cusses his half-dead horse), about technological progress, it's consequences, and about almost every other theme that has ever been dealt with in 80 years of western history.The movie's means are comedy, satire, drama, buddy movie, a really great musical score by Guido & Maurizio de Angelis, and all style elements of the classical western.The cast is superb, creating at least half a dozen unique characters you can root on; unfortunately with one exception: Yanti Somer's lousy performance as Candida.Another wonderful thing about this movie, is that it doesn't condemn any of its characters; everyone has his place in the film's world and gets his respect by script, direction and cast: the protagonists as well as the whores, the 'villains', the bounty hunters and the jailers. By the way: This quality also characterizes most films by Sam Peckinpah.
6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :- Funny Spaghetti Western with humor, mirth and amusing, 16 November 2007 Author: ma-cortes from Santander Spain
This Western comedy deals about the young man, Sir Thomas(Terence Hill),he's a dandy from East who goes to the West following the last wish his deceased father. His mentors are a trio sympathetics crooks, Bull,Holly Joe and Monkey(Gregory Walcott,Harry Carey Jr,Barto). The cocky Thomas carries a bicycle and wearing elegant clothes. The veteran friends teach him the West manners and training him for shooting. Thomas Moore must to fight himself against a nasty enemy named Morton(Ricardo Pizzuti)who is jealous of his girlfriend(Yanti Somer),daughter of a baronland(Enzo Fiermonte).The film contains action-Western, shootouts, fist-play, humor with tongue in cheek and is pretty bemusing. It's an entertaining film with enjoyable comedy in the wake of Trinity and Bambino. Agreeable casting with a likable Terence Hill( though I miss Bud Spencer)as a naive East young man, Yanti Somer(Trinity is still my name)as a gorgeous girl looking for the dreamt prince riding on a white horse. Furthermore, Harry Carey Jr, as a nice preacher, he's an usual secondary for John Ford films, Gregory Walcott as a tough illiterate and ,of course, Ricardo Pizzuti, Hill's habitual antagonist and whom receive the knocks and kicks. Adequate cinematography and jolly musical score including songs by the habitual Guido and Mauricio De Angelis. This is a co-production French-Italian, mostly produced by Alberto Grimaldi(Pea Productions), famous producer of ¨Dollars trilogy¨ by Sergio Leone. The motion picture is well directed by Enzo Barboni or E. B. Clucher.He was a noted cameramen including classic Spaghetti Western(Djiango,Goobye Texas,Hellbenders), but with the hit of ¨Trinity is my name¨ left it and turned to film-making, and directed the following ¨Trinity is still my name¨ and the third outing ¨Trinity and Bambino, the legend lives on¨, plus another Hill and Spencer vehicles.
1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :- I loved it!, 5 October 2000 Author: (rtillman@cg2.com) from Madison, Alabama USA
I saw this film back in 1972 in a small town where I lived. It came to the theater as "The Man from the East". I loved it! I walked out of the theater with my gut aching from laughing so much. That was my first experience of seeing Terence Hill. I have been a fan of his ever since. To this day I tell my wife of some of the scenes. I wish it would come out on video so that my wife will not think that I am making things up. It is a film for the whole family and I would be one of the first ones to buy it if it ever came out!
2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :- Surprisingly entertaining, 29 October 2002 Author: gordodj2000 from london, ont
I saw this film as the opening film at a drive-in many years ago, and found it to be more entertaining and enjoyable than the feature, which I don't even recall. If this is available on home video, it is a Must-See, especially for fans of Spaghetti Westerns.
1 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :- hilarious, 3 July 1999 Author: anonymous
The Man from the East. My husband and I along with another couple saw this movie when it was originally released at the theater in the 1970's. We have never forgotten it. We all thought it was extremely hilarious! We have been trying to find in on video for the last 10 years because we thought it was one of Terence Hill's best, and we are big fans of his. We hope it will be released soon on video.
3 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :- Reversed Crocodile Dundee, 12 October 2001 Author: cengelm from Germany
City dweller meats countryside and encounters a lot of trouble. Naturally he has to gain respect and to prove that he's worthy, too. The humor is similar to the one of the Trinity series and is never truly violent. No one will be killed or injured. The film was shot in the beautiful environment of the Plitvice lakes in Croatia and reminded me of the days I spent there.6 / 10.
2 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :- Not bad, but I've seen better, 19 January 2002 Author: stamper from The Netherlands
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 10P.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
2 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :- A disappointment, 7 March 2001 Author: MarKus-371 from Nova Scotia, Canada
Sir Thomas Moore, An eccentric Englishman, is sent to the Wild West by his dying fathers last wish, to teach him how to be a "real" man. He is threatened by a man called Morton, who wants to marry the girl that Hill also wishes to marry. With the help of his 3 friends, Hill learns how to fight and use a gun in case he is challenged by Morton.Being a fan of Terence Hill movies, I decided to get a bootleg of this movie off a friend. I was told this movie was better then Hill's 2 most famous movies THEY CALL ME TRINITY & TRINITY IS STILL MY NAME. This movie wasn't that funny and the action was just average. Still I enjoyed seeing MAN OF THE EAST, but its nothing special, and a bit overlong I might add. It's worth seeing once if your a Hill/Spencer fan. My vote: **1/2 out of ****
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