They Kept Calling Him … Terence Hill: “I invented the sleigh while watching a Laurel and Hardy Movie:”

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November 30, 2024

“Trinity is STILL My Name” is a 1971 Italian Spaghetti-western film directed by E.B. Clucher, starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill. It is the sequel to the film “They Call Me Trinity”… starring the same protagonists. In Italy, the film was the absolute box-office champion in the 1971-1972 season with 6,087,656,000. In the poker game scene, in which Terence Hill shuffles the cards performing incredible virtuosity, the hands were actually those of the well-known magician Tony Binarelli, who also “lent” his hands to the other players. In an interview, Binarelli revealed that to make Trinity and the Wild Cat Hendriks’ hands look different, they even made up his fingers. 

WEFT

Bambino, after stealing horses from a group of outlaws he met by chance, he stops in Texas, where his mother and stepfather, who have recently moved there from New Orleans, welcome him. To make a stop along the way, however, his younger brother Trinity also arrives, Trinity and Bambino promise their stepfather, who pretends to be on his deathbed with the complicity of trinity and his wife, that they will embark on a career as an outlaw together, as good brothers. They arrive in the town of Tascosa, where Parker, a local squire, sells weapons to Mexican rebels by taking advantage of a community of friars in the nearby city of San Jose, using their convent as a weapons depot to be trafficked. Here the two are mistaken for federal agents by Parker’s men.

THE SLED

The exteriors of the film were shot at Campo Imperatore (on the threshold of the Gran Sasso) and in other areas of Abruzzo, A few weeks ago on the occasion of the 50^th anniversary of the film, Terence Hill, recalled some anecdotes from the film about its making, including how he realized the idea of the making of the famous sleigh. Trinity, on the one hand embodied the fast gunslinger, on the other ridiculed this figure by showing himself as a lazy and listless young man so much so that he was dragged all the time on a sleigh pulled by his horse.

“I was passionate about Laurel and Hardy’s cinema and they shot a scene I which Laurel lies down on one of those films, and that’s why I recommended it to the director.”

A joke also about the horse”

“The horse of the sleigh was so well trained that he was always calm that it was enough for me to make the classic verse of the film that he would leave immediately.”

[photo courtesy Michael Ferguson]